Re: how ot create a button with a png image in it??

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Sunday, April 25, 2004, at 11:44 AM, Bruno Boettcher wrote:

> but i looked through the docu found out how to load xpm's and such 
> stuff, but couldn't get a hint on how lo actually load a png image 
> into a button???

depends on how you want to do it.

1) put a Gtk2::Image into the button, with normal widget layout 
controls (the button is just a container).

2) create a new stock item that contains your image, then use 
Gtk2::Button->new_from_stock ($newstockid);


both methods require you to get the image data from someplace:

a) load from files (e.g., Gtk2::Image->new_from_file() or 
Gtk2::Gdk::Pixbuf->new_from_file()).

b) load from inlined image data (mostly 
Gtk2::Gdk::Pixbuf->new_from_xpm_data() and friends)


check the Gtk2/examples directory, i believe most, if not all, of these 
methods are used in there.


i recommend 2+b, personally; it's more work, but your code requires no 
external data, and the stock mechanism does a lot of work for you 
(scaling images, installing accelerators and mnemonics, etc).

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