Re: A flashing button

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Antony Stace <antony claire co jp> writes:
> I need to create a special type of button.  The button will have a
> picture(1) on it which I will make, when the user clicks on the button
> the button should change to another picture(2) which I will supply, when
> the user releases the mouse button picture(1) will be displayed again. 
> This button can also be in two states, in state one it will behave like
> a normal button, when in the other state it will blink between
> picture(1) and picture(3).  What would be the best way to do this.

Put a GtkPixmap in the button; when the button gets the "pressed"
signal switch pictures, when it gets "released" switch pictures back.

For the blink, use a timeout (g_timeout_add()).

Havoc