Re: Changing the style of a scrollbar

[konton <konton gmail com>]

On 6/11/07, konton <konton gmail com> wrote:
> On 6/7/07, Paul Davis <paul linuxaudiosystems com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 16:18 -0700, konton wrote:
> > > How do you change the look and size of a scroll bar?  I have a
> > > GtkScrolledWindow that holds a GtkTreeView, and I want the scroll bars
> > > to have different images and be thinner.  I tried setting the style in
> > > .gtkrc for *GtkScrolledWindow* and I can get the color to change sort
> > > of and even have somewhat of a background image overlayed on the
> > > graphics, but it doesn't look like that's how I accomplish my task.
> > >
> > > In the source code to GtkScrolledWindow I can see where it draws the
> > > shadow around the contained widget, but not where it gets the up
> > > arrow, down arrow, and slider images for the scroll bars.
> > > gtkvscrollbar.c doesn't seem to have any graphics-related stuff in it.
> > >
> > > This is not for a desktop application so I don't care about the user's
> > > theme preference.
> >
> > this is all done by the theme engine in use. you won't find specific
> > code for it in GTK - instead the widget basically says "do the arrow
> > thing here" and the theme does it.
> >
> > --p
> >
>
> Thanks, that explains a lot.  I'll look into the source for a theme
> engine to try to find how it does it.  Do you happen to know of any
> good resources for this, or is source code the only way (as my
> preliminary searching has implied)?
>
> Thanks,
> Jason

Oh nevermind.  Looks like the Qt Pixmap engine has everything I need.

Thanks,
Jason