Re: Borderless buttons

[Tommi Komulainen <tommi komulainen nokia com>]

On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 17:37, ext Lars Clausen wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm trying to turn some image-based togglebuttons in Dia into cleaner
> code.  Previously, they've just been GtkDrawingAreas with event
> handling, but I'd like them to be proper ToggleButtons that change the
> image according to state.  While I have the image handling in there, I
> can't seem to get the six-pixel (or so) border away, making the buttons
> look much clunkier than before.  Is there a way to get rid of all
> borders?  Googling shows me some patches back in '99, but they don't
> seem to have made it into Gtk.

I think the following should help a little:

        rcstyle = gtk_rc_style_new ();
        rcstyle->xthickness = rcstyle->ythickness = 0;
        gtk_widget_modify_style (button, rcstyle);
        gtk_rc_style_unref (rcstyle),


In addition you can also really make the button as small as possible:

        gtk_widget_size_request (image, &size);
        gtk_widget_set_size_request (button, size.width, size.height);


This is how the tab close buttons and statusbar buttons in Galeon are
done, I think they look reasonable.


-- 
Tommi Komulainen <tommi komulainen nokia com>