Re: Borderless buttons

[Todd Fisher <taf2 lehigh edu>]

Lars Clausen wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 16:54, Todd Fisher wrote:
>  
>
> > Hi Lars!
> >
> >    I think you might find it easiest to use the pixmap theme engine to 
> > create image buttons.  By doing
> > something like the following:
> >
> >    
> >
> > > style "checkradiobutton"
> > > {
> > >  engine "pixmap" {
> > >      
> [...]
>  
>
> > >  }
> > > }
> > >      
> > widget "*.orange_button*" style "checkradiobutton"
> >
> > you can make just about any widget look however you like in this way...
> >
> > Thing to keep in mind is that the widgets you apply this too will not be 
> > themable outside your application.
> > hope this helps :)
> >    
>
> So how would this be integrated in the code and the autoconf/automake
> system?  Where does the above go, and how do I access it from C?  I'm
> finding blessed little documentation on themes for programmers.
>
> -Lars
>  
sorry, i left that part out.  so that example resource file that uses 
the pixmap theme engine would be stored
in a file.  Typically, if it's part of a system wide theme then you'd 
store it in a file named gtkrc and the user
would then decide, whether or not to apply that particular theme to all 
the gtk+ apps.  However, you can
manually load one of these files overriding a system defined theme if 
you want to specialize parts of your
application.  So, you could use the gtk_rc_add_default_file function to 
explicitly load a resource file in your case.  Take a look at the API 
docs for GtkRcStyle and you should see there are a few other ways of 
doing this as well.

hope that helps ,
todd