RE: How to forbid people to change GtkCheckButton's status manually?

["Boggess Rod" <rboggess corefurnace com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> Dave Howorth on 08/26/2009 04:00 AM wrote:
> > I'm surprised nobody has mentioned gtk_widget_set_sensitive()
>
> +1
>
> Setting a FALSE sensitivity would be the normal thing to do 
> that normal users would expect to see.
>
> If you want to be a "l33t" programmer and program a custom 
> method for a custom group of users then go on ahead. This 
> kind of GUI development is why your grandparents are so 
> afraid to use the computer.

Add my vote.  Although, if you want to be 3133t programmer, go with the
custom image.  There is a fair body of research building around GUI
development these days.  An "affordance" is the term used to describe a
thing that lets the user know they can interact with a GUI element
(widget).  Just seeing a widget that's not "greyed out" is an
affordance.  In this case, a false one.  That's evil.

So, if you intend that the user will never be able to change this value,
either don't use this widget, and instead use a custom image or label;
or if there are conditions under which the user can change this value,
then make it insensitive when it's locked out.