Re: Change the behaviour of a button

[Christian Neumair <chris gnome-de org>]

Am Montag, den 26.12.2005, 13:15 +0300 schrieb Yury Aliaev:
> > > I'm sure there's a "right way" but if you're in a hurry you can do 
> > > something I've used successfully. Use a table to lay out your objects, 
> > > and pack two buttons into the same cell. Hide one. When you need to 
> > > show the Stop button, hide the Remove button and show the Stop button. 
> > > It works very well for me.
> >
> >
> > Thanks.
> > GtkTables are good.
> > I guess I should use gtk_widget_show() and gtk_widget_hide() to 
> > hide/unhide the buttons...
>
> Naturally. You even can use GtkBox instead of GtkTable and pack all four 
> widgets (two images and two labels) in it, and then pack this box into 
> the button and show necessary and hide unnecessary widgets using 
> gtk_widget_show()/gtk_widget_hide() functions.

I recommend against this since it will break the GUI for people who
disable images on buttons. You should rather pack both buttons into one
box (hbox or vbox), use the suggested show/hide code and use a
GtkSizeGroup which ensures that both always have the same size.

-- 
Christian Neumair <chris gnome-de org>