Re: How to make...

[Gus Koppel <gtk spamkiller bytechase cx>]

Eric Lemings wrote:

> I'm trying to make a horizontal group of four buttons that each
> contain only a stock icon (no label) and are packed just wide enough
> to show the icon.
>
> What would the code look like?

There are two approaches to this design. One uses a GtkHButtonBox as a
container, the other one uses a GtkHBox as a container. Using
GtkHButtonBox has two drawbacks, however:
1. until most recent GTK+ versions the buttons are all of same width
2. buttons seem to get wider than required by the icons

The alternative uses just a GtkHBox and can be coded like this:

  my_hbox = gtk_hbox_new (FALSE, 0);
  gtk_widget_show (my_hbox);
  gtk_box_pack_start (GTK_BOX (vbox2), my_hbox, FALSE, FALSE, 0);
 
  button1 = gtk_button_new ();
  gtk_widget_show (button1);
  gtk_box_pack_start (GTK_BOX (my_hbox), button1, FALSE, FALSE, 0);
 
  image1 = gtk_image_new_from_stock ("gtk-dialog-info",
GTK_ICON_SIZE_BUTTON);
  gtk_widget_show (image1);
  gtk_container_add (GTK_CONTAINER (button1), image1);
 
  button2 = gtk_button_new ();
  gtk_widget_show (button2);
  gtk_box_pack_start (GTK_BOX (my_hbox), button2, FALSE, FALSE, 0);
 
  image2 = gtk_image_new_from_stock ("gtk-dialog-info",
GTK_ICON_SIZE_DIALOG);
  gtk_widget_show (image2);
  gtk_container_add (GTK_CONTAINER (button2), image2);

  [...]

Put the GtkHBox inside whatever container you want to have it in, i.e. a
GtkVBox inside a GtkWindow. All of the above widgets need to be declared
as well, i.e.

  GtkWidget *my_hbox;

Note however, that offering buttons with icons *only* (no labels at all)
is considered user-unfriendly design by many people.