Re: gtkmm comments

["Timothy M. Shead" <tshead k-3d com>]

John Taber wrote:

> Actually the problem comes in trying to set the icon later - I declare my 
> buttons in the header:  Gtk::Button myButton;  then in the constructor I was 
> trying to use myButton.set_label(...) but that method only works for a string 
> so I guess I have to instatiate the button in the constructor declaring the 
> icon.  The error was referring to BuiltinStockID which is where I was getting 
> confused - what would be nice is to have a Button::set_Icon(...) or 
> set_label(..)  method that would take the stock icon.  

You can pack anything into a button that you like - the constructors 
provided by GTKMM are just a convenience; internally, they are just 
packing the label, icon, box, or whatever for you.

Tim