RE: Widget colors

["Thomas Cameron" <tom ceisystems com>]

Bryan,

My best advice would be to pour yourself a good, hot cup of coffee (or
three), and set out to read over the tutorial for GTK.  I found that
after reading through only a small portion of it, the entire concept
behind GTK+ became very clear to me.

To get a "row" of buttons in a vbox, you'll have to pack the buttons
into an hbox, and then the hbox into the vbox.  If you loop up the
definition of each, an hbox is a "Horizontal" box, and a vbox is a
"vertical" box.

As for what widget to use, there are many that will fit your purpose
quite well.  I'd suggest taking a quick look at the GTK API reference
located at: http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/gtk/index.html.  This
will offer you're the best explaination of what each widget does, and
how the API implements them.

Good luck, and welcome to the community!
Tom Cameron


-----Original Message-----
From: Bryan Brown [mailto:bbrown saltmine radix net] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 1:29 PM
To: gtk-app-devel-list gnome org
Subject: Widget colors


Using gtk 1.2 I need to construct a gtk dialog, in the vbox of which
should be 3 rows of widgets, each widget being a rectangle filled with a
specified color plus a single word of text centered in the rectangle.
When the user clicks in a specific rectangle the color selection dialog
should pop up and, when the user has selected the color and closed the
color selection dialog, the rectangle which was clicked should be filled
with the specified color.

I was able to do this on my old Amiga, but I'm having some problems
learning how to do the following things with Gnome:

(1) build the widget filled with a specified color and word of text;

(2) make three rows of widgets in the vbox.

I'd appreciate some suggestions about how to do these things.

Thanks,

Bryan


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