Re: Non-stock icons in toolbar/menu?

[Fredrik Arnerup <e97_far e kth se>]

tor 2004-11-18 klockan 13:55 +0100 skrev Murray Cumming:
> > I have just migrated our app to the UIManager, which is great. But how
> > do I add my own icons to the actions? Do I need to subclass Action and
> > override the create_icon method, or is there a better way?
> 
> I guess that Bryan has done this in coaster
> http://www.coaster-burn.org/
> so you might look at that and/or ask him.
> 
> I am afraid that you might need to register new stock icons, though I have
> always thought the idea of non-stock stock icons was silly. When we figure
> this out we should add it to the gtkmm book.

You were correct, Coaster registers new stock icons. I looked at
coaster-0.1.2/src/stock-registration.cc and found it quite educational.
I agree that it is silly, but it isn't hard if you know how to do it.

Perhaps I should write an example program.

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