Re: changing label in a gtk2 stock item

[zentara <zentara1 sbcglobal net>]

On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 00:45:12 -0500
muppet <scott asofyet org> wrote:

> On Jan 26, 2008, at 10:39 AM, zentara wrote:
>
> > Someone asked this on perlmonks, and I thought it would be easy.....
> > but not. :-)
> >
> > They want to change just the Label of a button from stock_id.
>
> Would you mind linking to the original post for some context?  I'd  
> really like to know *why* you'd want to change the label of a stock  
> item, since it's generally a bad thing to do.  (E.g., you hose  
> translations and other uses in code you didn't write, etc, etc.)
>
> On the other hand, if all you mean is that you want to create a new  
> stock item that differs from an existing one by only the label and id,  
> then that's another thing.
>
> Or, if you mean that you want to change the label on a button that has  
> already been created from a stock id, that one's easy --- $button- 
> > set_label ($new_string);.  If you want to change the text but not  
> the image, then you're back to the warnings above about translations,  
> and the extra need to dig through the widget tree with crazy code like  
> this...
>
>       sub find_and_set_label_in {
>               my ($widget, $text) = @_;
>               print "@_\n";
>               if ($widget->isa (Gtk2::Container::)) {
>                       $widget->foreach (sub { find_and_set_label_in ($_[0], $text); });
>               } elsif ($widget->isa (Gtk2::Label::)) {
>                       $widget->set_text ($text);
>               }
>       }
>       find_and_set_label_in ($button->child, "Something");
>
>
> So, info needed.

Hi, thanks for responding. What I think the question was meant to be..
"how can I change the label on a stock_id button, while keeping the same icon"?

If I set_label on a stock_id button, the icon disappears.

I know I can find the icon, and use Item::Factory to make a custom
stock_id button, with the icon and a new label.  So the question
is not a problem, other than a curiosity.

As I thought about it, I guess the question is: can you subclass 
a stock_id item, and change it's label?

zentara

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