Re: Howto apply a sensitive state to a checkbutton?

[Gian Mario Tagliaretti <g tagliaretti gmail com>]

On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 15:16:37 +0100, Andreas Fey <Andreas Fey t-online de> wrote:
> Hi GTK-Fans,
> 
> I have written my first GTK-1.2 application.

If you are just starting with GTK why don't you start with GTK-2?

> All thing works fine except on little design behavior. I want to grey out
> some widgets to signal the user that they are not active. So I found the
> senstivie property which is exactly that what I wanted.
> But on my checkbutton-widget it does not work very well. If I apply the
> sensitive property to the checkbutton, only the label is greyeyd out, not
> the little box.
> I find, this looks a little bit strange.
> Is there a way to grey out the box of the checkbutton too ?
> 

With GTK-2 the behavoir is exactly what you are looking for.

cheers
gmt