Re: Stock image with custom text on menu item

[Iago Rubio <iago rubio hispalinux es>]

On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 06:02, Marisa DeMeglio wrote:
> I would like to create menu items that are able to use the stock 
> graphics, but with custom labels.  What is the best way to do this?

Feel free to use this function:

GtkWidget*
create_custom_menu_item_from_stock(gchar* label_text,gchar *stock_id)
{
  GtkWidget* menuitem;
  GtkWidget* image;
  GtkWidget* box;
  GtkWidget* label;

  menuitem = gtk_menu_item_new();
  box = gtk_hbox_new(FALSE,0);

  image = gtk_image_new_from_stock(stock_id,GTK_ICON_SIZE_BUTTON);
  label = gtk_label_new(label_text);

  gtk_box_pack_start((GtkBox*)box,image,FALSE,FALSE,0);
  gtk_box_pack_end  ((GtkBox*)box,label,FALSE,FALSE,0);
  gtk_widget_show(label);
  gtk_widget_show(image);
  gtk_widget_show(box);
  gtk_container_add(GTK_CONTAINER(menuitem),box);

  return menuitem;
}

The quick response is, a GtkMenuItem is also a GtkBin that's a special
type of GtkContainer that can contain a single widget.

You can pack whatever you neeed in a single widget (meaning a
GtkContainer, usually a GtkBox) and add it to the GtkMenuItem ( you can
do it also with GtkButton - as example - because a GtkButton is also a
GtkBin so a GtkContainer).

See:
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/GtkMenuItem.html
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/GtkBin.html
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/GtkContainer.html

Hope this helps.

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