Re: gtk_button_set_markup / animation / background color

[Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com>]

On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 11:14 -0400, Tristan Van Berkom wrote:
> ramare wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> >   I'm working on the look and feel of my gtk application.
> >   -- first : many thanks for those who developped this stuff :-)
> >   -- second : gtk_label_set_markup is great
> >               but how do I do that with button instead ?
> >               The only way is to put a label inside my button ?
>
> Any GtkButton api's that deal with text are only convenience api's,
> it often makes more sence to just deal with the label directly and add
> it to the button.
>
> >   -- You know, gimp proposes animation like "rotating and aspiring"
> >      your image. Well, it proposes to modify your image. So I
> >      take a shot every 15degrees and make the animation by changing
> >      the image every x milliseconds ---
> >      A better way of doing ?
>
> I dont think there is any built in functionality like this in GTK+
> afaik you have to compose your animation first, maybe you can do
> something with animated gifs ? (I'm really not sure).

You can use gtk_image_set_from_animation() to let GTK+ take care about
the updating and timekeeping. Since 2.8, you can construct animations
from a sequence of frames, using gdk_pixbuf_simple_anim_new() instead
of loading animated GIF or ANI files.

Matthias