Re: modifiable dialog button labels?

[Lance Dillon <riffraff169 yahoo com>]

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> From: Roger Davis <rbd soest hawaii edu>
> To: gtk-app-devel-list gnome org 
> Sent: Wednesday, March 7, 2012 7:59 PM
> Subject: modifiable dialog button labels?
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> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to code some reusable GtkDialogs (i.e., create them only once,
> then hide and reuse them later as necessary rather than destroying and 
> recreating every time). I need numerous dialogs which ask a simple question
> and then have two buttons for the user to choose between, e.g.,
>
>     Favorite drink? Wine/Beer
>     Which way? North/South
>
> (Poor examples maybe, but you get the idea.) Seems like a waste to create
> a bunch of different dialogs that are all using the same basic structure,
> I would prefer to just create one and then modify its elements as needed.
>
> I can see how to change a text label inserted into the dialog's content area
> to alter my question text, but so far have discovered no way to alter the
> text labels used in the buttons which I supply at creation time to
> gtk_dialog_new_with_buttons(). Seems like this ought to be an easy thing
> to do, but I can see no way to retrieve any pointer to the dialog's button
> objects nor any way to explicitly set their labels after the dialog
> has been created. Any ideas?  
>
> Thanks!
>
> Roger Davis
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you can use gtk_get_action_area() to get the GtkBox that that is the action area, that itself contains the 
buttons.  I believe you can then get all the child widgets, which would be the GtkButtons.

The  docs for GtkDialog describes it some, but doesn't talk about getting the buttons.  I think you would 
have to go to the page for GtkBox for how to get the children.

-lsd



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