Re: non-themed widget styles?

[jcupitt gmail com]

Hi again,

On 10/31/07, Chris Rorvick <chrisr trdlnk com> wrote:
> jcupitt gmail com wrote:
> > On 10/31/07, Chris Rorvick <chrisr trdlnk com> wrote:
> > > I have a GTK application that modifies the foreground and background of
> > > many different buttons rapidly.  These buttons should not be themed, so
> > > it seems that the gtk_widget_modify_*() functions incur an unnecessary
> > > overhead.  Is there a way to remove the theming of a widget?  I've tried
> >
> > I do this by defining a set of styles in a style file (eg.
> > "error_style" is reddish), then have a line binding all widgets named
> > In my code I do gtk_widget_set_name( widget, "error_widget" ); to get
> > it drawn in the red style, and _set_name( "" ); to have it drawn in
> > the regular style.
>
> Thank you for the feedback.  I think what you are suggesting is a way to
> override the default style for a particular widget.  I don't think this
> achieves my primary goal, though, of avoiding the overhead incurred by
> the logic in GTK that supports themes.  This overhead includes acquiring
> a lock and navigating/manipulating linked lists of styles.  Use of a
> profiler has shown this to be a significant burden to my application.

Yes, I saw you other posts. I'm suggesting a way you can change button
styles quickly. The idea is that you make a set of static styles when
your program starts up, then as it runs, rather than modifying styles,
you just change which style is used to draw each widget.

I guess I don't understand what you're trying to do :-( What's the
problem with the theme engine?

John