Re: stock items: how this stuff works ?

[Olexiy Avramchenko <olexiy irtech cn ua>]

Vincent Torri wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am trying to make a small program which can use images like stock icons
> in gtk. I have implemented some functions to handle icons, but i am not
> satisfied with them. My main purpose is to retrieve the path and the
> name of the image file.
>
> So i looked at the gtk source code. I think that there is two files that
> are important : gtkimage.h/c and gtkstock.h/c. But i can't find where you
> retrieve the path and the name of the icon (in the
> gtk_image_new_from_stock for example)
>
> Could you explain me how it works ?
>  
Hi,
The stock icons are stuffed inside the library. gtk_image_from_stock() 
gets a const id for each stock icon, not a path to file. You can get 
stock images from gtk+ distro, "gtk+-2*/gtk/stock-icons" subdir. BTW you 
may wan to examine generated "gtkstockpixbufs.h" file there and look at 
'man gdk-pixbuf-csource'.

   Olexiy