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thunor · Posted: Sun 28 Aug 2011, 15:55 Post subject:

I'm currently working towards making a source package release and I'd like to change something I recently added:

I want to change the checkbox and radiobutton menuitems from saving "0/1" to a file to "true/false" to make them consistent with other toggling widgets that save to file.

I'll wait a while before I do it to give people the time to object Razz

Regards,
Thunor

Dougal · Posted: Sun 28 Aug 2011, 15:58 Post subject:

Here's a modified version of technosaurus's example, which doesn't have the names hardcoded, so it doesn't need updating for different versions of gtk2...

Dougal · Posted: Sun 28 Aug 2011, 16:03 Post subject:

thunor · Posted: Sun 28 Aug 2011, 17:41 Post subject:

Dougal

I think that there might be some confusion about what stock="" does and what icon="" does so I'll attempt to explain them:

<input file stock="gtk-new"></input> for example would load the image associated with the stock ID "gtk-new". It is a constant or a macro meant to hide the filename and also to deal with left-to-right and right-to-left variations of some images. Importantly the stock IDs do not change, they are not filenames, they are IDs and the images are possibly compiled-in.

<input file icon="gnumeric"></input> for example would load the file "gnumeric.png/svg/etc." from the current icon theme wherever that is located. My GTK+ 2 Crux theme has an IconTheme=Crux set but there's no such set of icons on my computer so GTK+ searches a default set of paths which results in "/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/gnumeric.png" being loaded. Importantly these are filenames minus the path and extension.

There is not going to be an issue using <input file stock="gtk-new"></input> across GTK+ builds because "gtk-new" here is an ID hiding the filename of the originating image, but there will be if you use <input file icon="gtk-new"></input> because in this case "gtk-new" is a filename.

What's been happening is that <input file icon="gtk-new"></input> has been used and it mostly worked because the originating filenames of the built-in images are mostly identical to the stock IDs (GTK+ apparently also counts built-in stock images as theme images) but on Slacko beta 1 the originating filenames of the built-in images are NOT the same as the stock IDs therefore "gtk-new" wouldn't be found as a theme icon UNLESS it does physically exist as a file somewhere within the paths GTK+ searches for theme icons.

Simply put, stock="" is for unchanging stock IDs, icon="" is for filenames [minus the path and extension] representing icons from the current theme and also within the default paths GTK+ searches for theme icons.

For the record, these are the [likely default] paths GTK+ is searching for theme icons on my lupu-520 (gtk_icon_theme_get_search_path() was used):

/root/.icons
/root/.local/share/icons
/usr/share/icons
/usr/local/share/icons -> ../lib/X11/mini-icons
/usr/share/pixmaps
/usr/local/share/pixmaps

See http://developer.gnome.org/gtk/2.24/gtk-Stock-Items.html and http://developer.gnome.org/gtk/2.24/GtkIconTheme.html.

Regards,
Thunor

thunor · Posted: Sun 28 Aug 2011, 18:00 Post subject:

zigbert · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 5295 Location: Valåmoen, Norway

Thunor
Thank you for the explanation.

Sigmund

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7037 Location: qld

8-bit · Joined: 03 Apr 2007 Posts: 3033 Location: Oregon

01micko,
First, I like your music interests as per the images! Smile

Second, that one line change in the gtk theme icons example was great!
With it, the original icon-names.txt file works fine and all displayable stock icons are displayed.
It saves a lot of guesswork as to if an icon will display properly in various puppy versions.
At least I hope it does.

I had found that appending the -ltr to some names in a script worked in some scripts but not others.

So kudos to you.

Just one question.

Are you going to become a Slacker? Laughing

Dougal · Posted: Mon 29 Aug 2011, 15:30 Post subject:

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7037 Location: qld

8-bit · Joined: 03 Apr 2007 Posts: 3033 Location: Oregon

Actually, I was thinking of your latest Puppy effort called "Slacko"
I have to wipe out a bunch of frugal puppy installs to make some room for Slaco so I can check it out.

zigbert · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 5295 Location: Valåmoen, Norway

zigbert · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 5295 Location: Valåmoen, Norway

thunor · Posted: Mon 29 Aug 2011, 18:24 Post subject:

Added statusbar widget

The <label> or the <default> directives can be used to set an initial message in addition to both <input> and <input file>
The widget's variable will contain the current message
There is no default signal and the only signal I've found it to emit is "show" at start-up

Just something I've wanted to add for some time now; a simple widget but useful.

<statusbar> widget example:

8-bit · Joined: 03 Apr 2007 Posts: 3033 Location: Oregon

I would still like to see an example of how to use a mask with chooser or fileselect to show only files that fit that mask.

For example, if I am at a prompt and type "ls *.png" only png type files are shown.
If I instead type "ls c*" only files beginning with c are shown.

If one has a variety of file types in a directory and wants fileselect or chooser to display only certain file types, that is handy.