Re: creating a custom button in GTK--

[Akos Maroy <darkeye tyrell hu>]

Jan Hudec wrote:
> But we are talking about creating it. It takes to set some flags and
> invoking some magic in realize or map or thereabout, but I don't recall
> the details.

this is what I'd be interested in, though :)

> Anyway, if you subclass Gtk::Button instead of Gtk::Bin, you will get
> all this, since Gtk::Button does have a window.
>
>
> > that get_window() in Bin actually returns the parent window. but maybe 
> > this is the explanation: as Bin doesn't actually have a window, that's 
> > the best it can do...
>
>
> Yes. The method is defined that way. It returns the window that the
> widget is drawn on.

I gave it a try, and for Gtk::Button, get_window() also returns the 
parent, the window the button is contained in, not a window which would 
be the button itself..


akos