On Jan 4, 2008 2:06 PM, Ajax John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to change it's shape to some other shape, say round rectangle. > How to do that in Gtk? > 2) I want to change the color of my Button to some color.
The easy way is to use a theme engine to change the way your buttons are painted. It works something like this: GTK widgets draw themselves with calls like gtk_paint_box() (to draw the box shape of the button) and gtk_paint_focus() (to draw the button's focus indicator). They look at the current style file to get layout information, such as the interior margin etc. gtk_paint_box() and friends are implemented by a theme engine. There's rather a dull one built into GTK, but most desktops plug in an alternative, such as clearlooks. The theme engine reads more values from the current style (colour, gradients, more layout, etc.) and then paints the screen using cairo (usually these days) or GDK. Cairo/GDK/whatever then make calls to the platform native drawing toolkit (X11, GDI, etc). So you should pick a theme engine that can paint rounded buttons, then hack up a style file for your app that sets the colours and layout the way you like. (alternatively, don't do anything, and leave this sort of detailed customisation of appearance to your users ... I guess this won't apply to embedded applications) John _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
