Re: Re: Toggle buttons

[Jim Parker <hopeye cfl rr com>]

G'Day !

I am building a toolbar(s) in a CAD application.  While I use radio-buttons
in my menu, the UI would require a major rewite to incorporate the use of
radio-buttons and I don't think it wold work (I am probably blinded by
convention here).

I could use normal buttons for this, but wanted to give the user a visual
clue as to what state the program was in.  Also the program continues to be
in this state until changed by the user explicitly.  (for example, drawing
points on a screen with a mouse.  You do not want to force the user to
click a button for each point.)

As another poster pointed out gtk_toggle_button_set_active ( ) is the way
to go.  Ugly, but ...

Thanks for your replies.

cheers,
Jim Parker

On Sun, 5 May 2002, David Odin wrote:
> Date: Sun, 5 May 2002 21:25:26 +0200
> To: Jim Parker <hopeye cfl rr com>
> From: David Odin <David dindinx org>
> CC: GTK+ mailing list <gtk-app-devel-list gnome org>
> Sender: DindinX <david dindinx org>
> Subject: Re: Toggle buttons
>
> On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 03:05:02PM -0400, Jim Parker wrote:
> > G'Day !
> >
> > I have an arbitrary number of toolbars  with toggle buttons that vary
> > dynamically based on the program state.  ( I hope you understand that 
> ;-)
> > My problem is that only one toogle button may be active at a given time
> on
> > any toolbar.  In other words if the user clicks a toggle button all
> other
> > toggle buttons must become inactive.  (The use of a radio button is not
> an
> > option)
> >
> > Is there a way to untoggle a button on any visible toolbar, when
> another
> > toggle button is selected ?  Any example code around ?
>   You are eactly describing the behaviour of radio buttons. why aren't
> they an option?
>
> -- 
> David dindinx org