Re: Changing the GtkButton appearence

[Alem Dain <alem dain gmail com>]

This is the province of the GTK theme, usually defined in resource
files.  The philosophy is that the user -- not the programmer --
decides how his buttons should look.

That being said, there are plenty of ways around it.  The first is to
enforce the use of a particular theme, either by hardcoding it or
loading it from a file with gtk_rc_parse.  See

  file:///usr/local/share/gtk-doc/html/gtk/gtk-Resource-Files.html

for info on GTK resources.

Another way is to load an image onto the button, and use a
transparency mask to change the shape.  I was involved in a thread on
this a few months ago: search for "How to shape a button".  Once you
have a pixmap (for example, from gdk_pixmap_create_from_xpm), you set
the transparency mask with gdk_window_shape_combine_mask, create an
image with gtk_image_new_from_pixmap, and add the image to the button
(as a container).  All these functions are, of course, documented.

Good luck,
Alem.

2005/10/28, sadhees kumar <sadheeskumar gmail com>:
> Dear Friends,
>  I want to display my button widget with different look.
>  Is there any way to change the appearence of GtkButton from rectangle to
> ellipse?
>  if anybody achieved this, attach the sample code.
>  Thanks in advance.
> _____________
> Regards,
>
> K.Sadheeskumar.
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