Re: bitmap buttons

[Paul Davis <pbd Op Net>]

>> Related question...  If I add a 10x10 pixel wide pixmap to a button, will
>> the button request a size of 10x10 or is there some implicit border?  Just
>> in case, hypothetically I wanted to tile a region with buttons containing
>> pixmaps... ;-)
>
>Hi Skip, no, I think there's a 1 pixel non-removable border (in gtk-1.2.x
>anyway). You'd need to write your own widget for a tiled clickable area. I gue
>ss
>subclassing off DrawingArea would be the easiest (100 lines of C?).

i don't think so. this should do it:

GtkWidget *evbox = gtk_event_box_new ();
GtkWidget *pixmap = gtk_pixmap_new (...);
gtk_container_add (evbox, pixmap);
gtk_widget_set_events (evbox, GDK_BUTTON_PRESS_MASK|GDK_BUTTON_RELEASE_MASK);

--p