[Glade-users] would like a stock button without the text (GtkButton), or a stock GtkToolButton that gets button-pressed-event

[gergely at polonkai.eu (Gergely Polonkai)]

I have no idea, but maybe I would take a look into GtkSpinButton?s sources;
the up/down (well, plus and minus) buttons do exactly what you want to
achieve. Dig yourself into gtkspinbutton.c, it may hold the answer for you
;)
On Jun 25, 2016 17:30, "Dan Hitt" <dan.hitt at gmail.com> wrote:

> Oh for sure!
>
> And if there's a better way to handle my use case i'm all ears.
>
> What i would like to happen is that if i press the button, and hold it, it
> starts repeating.
>
> Ideally, it would repeat slowly at first, but as time wears on repeat
> faster and faster.
>
> If there were an attribute in the glade gui that said 'auto-repeat', i
> would just check it and let the gtk machinery take care of the rest.
>
> But afaict, i'm going to need to program it.
>
> I have not done this yet, and it is of course a language-specific
> question, but i imagine i'll fire some kind of timeout on the first press,
> and clear it on the release, but until there's a release doing my action
> each time it times out while shortening the next period.
>
> So that's the plan, but if you have a way to skip the programming part and
> do it all, or something similar, purely in glade, then i would be even more
> grateful, and try it out.
>
> Thanks for all your help!
>
> dan
>
> On Sat, Jun 25, 2016 at 2:17 AM, Gergely Polonkai <gergely at polonkai.eu>
> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > you?re welcome.
> >
> > On a side note, could you elaborate on why you need the button-pressed
> > event instead of clicked? Just out of curiosity, as I rarely see valid use
> > cases for this signal (and because I prefer using GtkActions).
> >
> > Best,
> > Gergely
> > On Jun 25, 2016 04:59, "Dan Hitt" <dan.hitt at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Ah, thank you very much Gergely.
> > >
> > > This is exactly what i need.
> > >
> > > A little elaboration here as to what i'm doing: i want to isolate as
> > > much of the gui development to glade as possible, because it will make the
> > > app look more like other apps, and probably be better than anything i could
> > > do.
> > >
> > > And i want to avoid text on buttons as much as possible for all the
> > > usual reasons.
> > >
> > > I thought GtkToolButton was ideal for what i wanted, but it has trouble
> > > getting the button-press-event signal, while a button has no such problem.
> > >
> > > Anyhow, i appreciate your help very much, and it lets me get on my way.
> > >
> > > dan
> > >
> > > On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 8:24 AM, Gergely Polonkai <gergely at polonkai.eu>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Add a GtkButton, and inside a GtkImage. If you are using the Glade UI,
> > > > you have to check the ?Add custom content? checkbox in the button
> > > > properties.
> > > >
> > > > Best,
> > > > Gergely
> > > > Thanks Gergely for your suggestion.
> > > >
> > > > But how would i do that entirely in glade, and using only stock images?
> > > >
> > > > TIA for any info.
> > > >
> > > > dan
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 1:04 AM, Gergely Polonkai <gergely at polonkai.eu>
> > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hello,
> > > > >
> > > > > how about you create a simple button, and add an image inside? Buttons
> > > > > are containers, you can put anything inside (even a button, but that
> > > > > doesn?t make much sense).
> > > > >
> > > > > Best,
> > > > > Gergely
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Gergely Polonkai
> > > > > [image: https://]about.me/gergely.polonkai
> > > > >
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> > > > >
> > > > > 2016-06-24 7:49 GMT+02:00 Dan Hitt <dan.hitt at gmail.com>:
> > > > >
> > > > > > I would like to have a widget, created in glade, that acts like a
> > > > > > button in that it gets button-press-event, and has a stock image, but
> > > > > > does not have any text label.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > A GtkToolButton almost fits the bill, in that it has an image but no
> > > > > > text.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > However, if you put signal handlers on a GtkToolButton, you can see
> > > > > > when it is clicked, or gets a button-released-event, but the
> > > > > > button-pressed-events are unreliable.   In my setup, they only show up
> > > > > > for double clicks.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On the other hand a GtkButton certainly does get button-pressed-event
> > > > > > and button-released-event, but if it's a stock button, there does not
> > > > > > seem to be a way to tell it to just not show any text.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I would like to do this entirely in glade, without writing any code,
> > > > > > and using only standard images.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Is this possible?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I'm using xubuntu 16.04, and the glade which comes with it which is
> > > > > > 3.18.3.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Thanks in advance for any clues, and i can provide more details if i'm
> > > > > > leaving something out here.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > dan
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