Re: GUI building questions

[John Cupitt <john cupitt ng-london org uk>]

Hi again,

Chris W wrote:
> John Cupitt wrote:
>
> > I'd put the buttons into a GtkTable for layout. You can set a cell 
> > horizontal and vertical padding which you should be able to adjust to 
> > get the spacing you want. 
>
> You may have noticed that one of the buttons takes up two rows.  I don't 
> see anyway to allow that with a table.

When you add a widget to a table you can set left/right/top/bottom attachments, so a widget can span several cells.

You can set colours/fonts/etc from C with some style fiddling, but it's honestly easier to use a gtkrc file. 

You'll need something to find and load the bitmaps for your buttons ... all you do is put a private style file in the same directory and call gtk_rc_add_default_file() to get gtk to draw your application using that set of styles. If you don't want people to change it, just don't tell them the file is there :)

John