Re: Toggle buttons

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Jim Parker <hopeye cfl rr com> writes:

> G'Day !
>
> I am building a toolbar(s) in a CAD application.  While I use radio-buttons
> in my menu, the UI would require a major rewite to incorporate the use of
> radio-buttons and I don't think it wold work (I am probably blinded by
> convention here).
>
> I could use normal buttons for this, but wanted to give the user a visual
> clue as to what state the program was in.  Also the program continues to be
> in this state until changed by the user explicitly.  (for example, drawing
> points on a screen with a mouse.  You do not want to force the user to
> click a button for each point.)
>
> As another poster pointed out gtk_toggle_button_set_active ( ) is the way
> to go.  Ugly, but ...

Call gtk_toggle_button_set_mode(button, FALSE) on radio buttons and they'll
draw like toggle buttons.

Regards,
                                        Owen