Re: Getting a pixbuf from a stock icon

[Dan <dan entropy homelinux org>]

Stefano Esposito wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> i'm trying to get a Gtk2::Gdk::Pixbuf from a stock icon. I've tried using Gtk2::Image->get_pixbuf, creating 
> an image from the stock, but Gtk2 returns a critical error about the image type, which isn't Pixbuf nor 
> Empty. There is any other way?Or i've miss a step?
>
> Thanks a lot :)
I just recently figured how to do this myself. It seems like everything
derived from Gtk2::Widget has a 'render_icon' method. So you just do:

my $pixbuf = $widget->render_icon("gtk-yes",    "menu");

Have a look at http://gtk2-perl.sourceforge.net/doc/pod/Gtk2/Widget.html

Dan