Re: Widget states for 3.0 (and 2.18?)

[Thomas Wood <thos gnome org>]

On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 07:46 -0500, Cody Russell wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Thomas Wood <thos gnome org> wrote:
>         I think the current GTK+ states are correct as an enum. They
>         are single
>         user or application activatable states of which the widget
>         cannot be in
>         more than one state at once (normal, insensitive, active,
>         prelight).
> 
> But then we get workarounds for things like toggle/check/radio buttons
> because we can't support active and prelight at the same time.  Not
> all combinations of states make sense for different widgets, but I
> think it's still a more sensible way to store the information.

Why would you have active and prelight at the same time? The two states
are mutually exclusive. One indicates the user is holding the mouse
button down on a widget, the other indicates that the mouse is
"hovering" over the widget.

Regards,

Thomas