Re: Widget look questions

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Surely you can just use something like an eventbox and look for the button_press_event?

then on top of the eventbox, insert and image and you're away?

>  from:    Alex Pavloff <apavloff eason com>
>  date:    Wed, 14 Aug 2002 02:31:27
>  to:      gtk-app-devel-list gnome org
>  subject: Re: Widget look questions
>
>
> Hey folks.
>
> I have a couple widget questions.
>
> How would I (if possible) programatically (not via a resource file)
>
> a) Make a button transparent
>
> b) Take away the "3D" look of a button
> b1) Change the outside line color of this non-3d button
>
> Why do I want to do all these horrible things to make my apps look
> ridiculous?  I'm using GTK for an industrial HMI, and my customers like to
> be able to do things like make hidden buttons (aka touchpoints) and layer
> them on their own pictures.  
>
> Not all of them like the 3d look -- and sometimes, depending on the
> environment (think really nasty dirty industrial plants), they really need
> to have the ability to tweak their GUI.
>
> So I have a Windows based program that outputs files that contain (among
> other things) descriptions of the various screens that the users have, and I
> read the data in (on the Linux side) and create the few simple
> buttons/label/pictures/data displays that the user needs.  They don't
> want/don't need/wouldn't understand something like Glade, and it wouldn't
> have the hooks for my stuff anyway.
>
> All help is much appreciated!
>
> Alex Pavloff
> Software Engineer
> Eason Technology
>  
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