[libxfcegui4] xfce_iconbutton

[Olivier Fourdan]

Hi Jasper,

I did not look in to it yet, but the whole thing is to avoid using
GdkImage, so I doubt this could be kept...

IMO, there is no need for scaling.

Cheers,
Olivier.

On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 19:22, Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> Hi Olivier,
> 
> You were working so hard on the xfce widgets I wanted to try and
> contribute something to that effort.
> 
> xfce_iconbutton is a gtk_button with an automatically scaled icon. It's
> based on GtkButton and I just add a gtk_image containing the icon.
> 
> It works for me, but the automatic scaling part turned out to be a lot
> more complicated then I thought. I didn't want to reimplement all the
> button functions myself, so I decided to just connect to the 
> 'size-allocate' signal. However if I set the image in the size-allocate
> handler you get a race condition (new image => new size => new
> image => etc.).
> 
> 
> I 'solved' it by having a flag indicating if the icon was just scaled.
> So effectively I never scale on every second size-allocate event. This
> seems to work fine, but it also feels wrong.
> 
> I can either try to reimplement the gtk_image widget or the gtk_button
> size_allocate function. Both are not entirely trivial.
> 
> Could you perhaps have a look and tell me what you think? There is an
> example for it as well.
> 
> 	Jasper
> 
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