Re: [gtk-list] widgets without user input

[Matt Goodall <mgg isotek co uk>]

Ionutz Borcoman wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a program that uses scrollbars and check buttons to display
> informations from my motherboard (using lm-sensors library). As these
> widgets should be read-only I have "disabled" them to prevent user
> imput. The only problem is that this also greys the widgets. Is it
> posible to only stop user input while keeping the normal colors ?
> 
> I would like something as simple and compact as possible (for disabling,
> I have only one code line :-).

Could you use a progress bar (GtkProgressBar) instead of the scroll bar?
They're similar to scroll bars but for data display rather than data
input.

I would replace the checkbox with something like a GtkHBox containing a
GtkPixmap and GtkLabel i.e.

 ------------------------------------
| GtkHBox                            |
|  -----------   ------------------  |
| | GtkPixmap | | GtkLabel         | |
|  -----------   ------------------  |
 ------------------------------------

You could then create two pixmaps for off and on: a tick and a cross
maybe?

There will be a bit of coding for the checkbox replacement but the end
result will be *much* better than using an insensitive data input
widget.

Cheers, Matt.

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