Re: Packing a button in a GtkCellRenderer

[Andrew Smith <asmith15 littlesvr ca>]

Emmanuele Bassi a écrit :
> On Sun, 2008-09-21 at 21:30 -0400, Andrew Smith wrote:
>  
> > > > A custom cell renderer (as in 
> > > > http://scentric.net/tutorial/sec-custom-cell-renderers.html ) seems to 
> > > > be a lot of work, apparently I have to render the button myself.. but I 
> > > > may be misunderstanding.
> > > no, you understood correctly: you need to write a custom cell renderer
> > > that draws a button.
> > >
> > > ciao,
> > >  Emmanuele.
> > Ok, so does that mean I'll have to reimplement GtkButton? That's why I 
> > say it seems to be a lot of work.
>
> you don't need to reimplement *all* GtkButton - mostly the gtk_paint
> calls to make it possible for themes to actually paint your cell
> renderer like a button.
>
> > Or can I use a GtkButton in a cell renderer?
>
> no, you can't.
>
> > Is there a tutorial or some sample code somewhere anyone knows of that 
> > could help me figure this out?
>
> not that I know of; you can have a look at how the toggle cell renderer
> works - it's basically all you need to implement a button.
>
> ciao,
>  Emmanuele.

I had a look at GtkCellRendererToggle. That's pretty intense, I've 
decided my time will be better spent adding functionality to my 
application than writing hacks like that :)

I guess if this is how it's done in GTK, there's no point in looking for 
an easier way.

The thing is I /would/ have to reimplement a GtkButton. See I don't just 
need one drawn, I can do that (minus theme) with a pixmap. I need 
everything that a button does.

Thanks for the advice though, maybe one day I'll have time to play with 
things like that.

Cheers,

Andrew