On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 14:54 -0700, Joe Van Dyk wrote: > 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, 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 murrayc@xxxxxxxxxxx www.murrayc.com www.openismus.com _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
