Re: GTK+ Styling

[jcupitt gmail com]

On 16 February 2012 06:23, the pro <thepro4ever gmail com> wrote:
> linux but horrible on windows. I see references to the
> possiblity of themeing all over google for gtk but I couldn't find any
> examples that involved finding a theme and loading it with C.

When you package your gtk app for Windows you need to lay out a
directory structure something like this:

myapp-1.0
  bin
    myapp.exe
    ... loads of gtk/glib/etc. DLLs
  etc
    gtk-2.0
      gtkrc
  share
    themes erm actually I forget this bit

The gtkrc file needs to contain something like:

gtk-theme-name = "Clearlooks"

And you need to put the clearlooks (or whatever theme you select)
theme into share and (I think) lib.

I have a project here:

https://github.com/jcupitt/build-win32

that does this. You give it a .tar.gz source tarball for your project
and it builds you a myapp-1.0-setup.exe installer automatically. I use
it on linux with a cross-compiler.

John