Re: button themes

[Russell Nelson <nelson crynwr com>]

Shawn T. Amundson writes:
 > It seems to me that we want will want to have some other 
 > faster method for creating parts of themes instead of only
 > pixmaps.

No.  It's quite easy to optimize tiling an unscaled 1x1 pixmap into
drawing a line or filling an area, if that turns out to be necessary.
Let's not multiple entities needlessly.

 > We will assume for now that works like magic and found all 
 > the files and such.  We need a couple more functions for
 > working with loaded themes (note - more than one theme can
 > be loaded at once to allow switching at runtime).

Not necessary.  You want to switch, you load again.

 > gtk_theme_unload("57chevy");

You want to switch, you load again.

 > gtk_theme_refresh("57chevy");

You want to refresh, you load again.

 > This will allow us to notify widgets when they can no longer
 > use a theme or when they should redraw because the theme
 > has been refreshed.

Refresh the root window when the theme changes.  But hmmm....  How do
running applications access the new pixmaps?

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