Hi,
I’m rewriting a Xlib graphical application in Gtk. There’s four
different states (run, hold, reset, shutdown) that the application be
be in. The state that the application is in is determined by another
application, but the user of the graphical application can request a
different “state”.
Here’s a picture of what the buttons for changing the state look like.
http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/9717/buttons2mv.png The application
is in “reset” mode currently. Notice how the reset button is
depressed.
I’m struggling how to reproduce that look in Gtk. I initially tried
toggle and radio buttons, but I couldn’t figure out how to tell a
button to be active / toggled without generating a “toggled” event,
which would tell the application to send a request to change the
state.
Any ideas? I’m guessing I have two solutions. One is to figure out
how to get a normal button to look “depressed” like it does in the
picture. The other solution is to figure out how to be able to tell a
toggle button to be toggled without that button emitting a toggled
event (which would tell the application to change state, when the user
hasn’t requested a state change).
Thanks,
Joe
On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 02:54:03PM -0700, Joe Van D. wrote:
event (which would tell the application to change state, when the user
hasn’t requested a state change).
You can use the “released signal” of the button for this. You just need
to
ensure that you check the actual state of the button in the callback (As
a
release outside of the button’s area won’t actually toggle it).
Sjoerd
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On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 14:54 -0700, Joe Van D. wrote:
is in “reset” mode currently. Notice how the reset button is
picture. The other solution is to figure out how to be able to tell a
toggle button to be toggled without that button emitting a toggled
event (which would tell the application to change state, when the user
hasn’t requested a state change).
all you seem to be doing is changing the colors. and no, GTK has no
method of making a button appear “pressed” without going through the
code path for an actual press. i just use a separate variable called
something like in_my_special_context. the handler for the button
click/press/release events simply checks to see if this is true, and
returns true without doing anything. you set the var to true when you
programmatically toggle the button, then back to false afterwards.
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Paul Davis wrote:
method of making a button appear “pressed” without going through the
code path for an actual press. i just use a separate variable called
something like in_my_special_context. the handler for the button
click/press/release events simply checks to see if this is true, and
returns true without doing anything. you set the var to true when you
programmatically toggle the button, then back to false afterwards.
Note also you can use g_signal_handler_block_by_func() for this
purpose.
Cheers,
-Tristan
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On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 14:54 -0700, Joe Van D. wrote:
is in “reset” mode currently. Notice how the reset button is
depressed.
I’m struggling how to reproduce that look in Gtk. I initially tried
toggle and radio buttons, but I couldn’t figure out how to tell a
button to be active / toggled without generating a “toggled” event,
It’s up to you whether to handle that signal. With a bool you can stop
yourself from handling it.
which would tell the application to send a request to change the
state.
Any ideas? I’m guessing I have two solutions. One is to figure out
how to get a normal button to look “depressed” like it does in the
picture. The other solution is to figure out how to be able to tell a
toggle button to be toggled without that button emitting a toggled
event (which would tell the application to change state, when the user
hasn’t requested a state change).
–
Murray Cumming
[email protected]
www.murrayc.com
www.openismus.com
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On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 20:42 -0400, Tristan Van Berkom wrote:
Note also you can use g_signal_handler_block_by_func() for this
purpose.
not from gtkmm, at least not very conveniently.
–p
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