Re: how to underline the text of a button [solved]

[Gezim Hoxha <gezimetc shaw ca>]

On Mon, 2006-27-02 at 00:50 +0200, Paul Pogonyshev wrote:
> Gezim Hoxha wrote: 
> > I have a button like this:
> > GtkButton *pulse_button
> > pulse_button = g_object_new (GTK_TYPE_BUTTON, 
> >                             "label", "_Pulse",
> >                             "use-underline", TRUE,
> >                             NULL);
> >
> > And I want to know why isn't the word "Pulse" underlined in the button
> > text?
>
> It shouldn't.  When you create a button like this, letter `P' will be
> underlined and the user will be able to activate the button from the
> keyboard with Alt+P (and with mouse too, of course.)

Heh, I realized this after I emailed the list.


> If you really need underlined text in a button, try
>
>   GtkWidget *pulse_button = gtk_button_new ();
>   GtkWidget *pulse_label  = gtk_label_new ();
>
>   gtk_label_set_markup (GTK_LABEL (pulse_label), "<u>Pulse</u>")
>   gtk_container_add (GTK_CONTAINER (pulse_button), pulse_label);

Thanks for this. Line two of the code doesn't work though because there
needs to be an argument when gtk_label_new is called, this worked
however:
  GtkWidget *pulse_label  = gtk_label_new ("Temp Text");

Thanks,
-Gezim