Re: increasing focus outline size?

["Maher Awamy" <muhri muhri net>]

Just a suggestion, why not use ToggleButton.. If I am getting what you want to
do right that is.

Maher

On Tue, 13 Feb 2001 10:52:05 -0800 (PST), Gary Scavone said:

> 
>  I have an app with lots of small buttons on it.  Users select various
>  buttons and I show that the buttons are "selected" by setting their
>  focus.  However, the focus outline is only about a pixel wide and
>  pretty hard to see (or so the users have told me).  Is there a way to
>  increase this outline?  I even created a new class using the gtkbutton
>  code and screwed around with the settings in the gtk_button_paint
>  function, but nothing I did seemed to work.
>  
>  I also screwed around with GTK_STATE_SELECTED for a while, thinking
>  that might be a different way to go (since I could change the selected
>  state colors).  But I found that the SELECTED state wasn't very well
>  defined and my settings were typically over-ridden by the NORMAL and
>  ACTIVE state settings (which I need to use as well).  In fact, I found
>  little documentation on what exactly the SELECTED state is supposed to
>  specify and when.
>  
>  If anyone could help, I'd be most appreciative.  My app is scheduled
>  to begin use in a psychoacoustic experiment next week, so I'd love to
>  fix this if I can.
>  
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