Re: Tiling button background image

[zentara <zentara1 sbcglobal net>]

On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:57:31 +1000
Kevin Ryde <user42 zip com au> wrote:

>"Veli Ogla Sungutay" <velisungutay gmail com> writes:
>>
>> Another simple task. I have a button and I need to repeat the
>> background image horizontally. Just like we do in CSS
>> background: url(foo.jpg) repeat-x
>
>At the X level background pixmaps are tiled horizontally and vertically,
>per gdk_window_set_back_pixmap.  But I don't know how well that works
>with widgets and their text.  A GtkButton (believe it or not!) is a
>no-window widget, so you might have to stick it in a GtkEventBox to
>confine the background to just the button.

You can also add anything to a button

$button->add($vbox);    # <- You can pack any widget inside a button!

So fill your $vbox anyway you want, like a combination of labels and images.

zentara

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