Re: background/font capplets

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Seth Nickell wrote:

> On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 18:00, James Henstridge wrote:
>
> > Seth Nickell wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 16:12, Richard Hestilow wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 17:50, Seth Nickell wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Which would be a lovely case of changing the interface to match ease of
> > > > > implementation (and silly too since the implementation work is already
> > > > > done).
> > > > >
> > > > > bad hacker, no biscuit ;)
> > > > (this is getting increasingly-off topic but I'll bite)
> > > > I'd actually argue that the use of toggle buttons in a context which,
> > > > 99% of the time, would normally be implemented using radio buttons or an
> > > > option menu counts as an inconsistent and potentially confusing UI.
> > > Using toggle buttons as radio boxes is both HIG compliant, and not
> > > uncommon in other systems. Its probably not used much in GNOME because
> > > its a little tricky to implement without getting nasty signal loops.
> > >
> > > "Only use toggle buttons in groups, so they are not mistaken for regular
> > > buttons. Make the group behave like either a group of check boxes where
> > > none, one or more of the buttons may be set at once, or a group of radio
> > > buttons, where exactly one button may be set at once, and setting one
> > > button unsets the others."
> > >
> > > In general, radio buttons are the preferred control, but the image/label
> > > mix works better with toggle buttons in this case.
> > If it is just appearance you are worried about, can't you just use 
> > GtkRadioButtons, and call gtk_toggle_button_set_mode(button, FALSE) (I 
> > think that is the correct function) to make them draw like toggle buttons?
> >
> > Of course, if there are other reasons not to use GtkRadioButton, ignore 
> > the above :)
>
> heh, I'm a dumb-shit. I didn't know you could do this. But I'm not sure
> it would help here because I'm customizing the contents of the button,
> so can you get access to the actual button contents bin if you change
> the mode like that?
A GtkRadioButton is a GtkToggleButton (which is a bin) so yes.  If you 
can pack it in a toggle button, you can pack it in a radio button. 
Calling set_mode(button, FALSE) gives you something that looks like 
GtkToggleButton but acts like a radio button -- it is what GIMP uses for 
the the toolbox.

James.

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