[libxfcegui4] xfce_iconbutton

[Olivier Fourdan]

Jasper,

Just to clarify (for the rest of the list):

I misunderstood. I've been confused between iconbutton and "iconify
button".

SO yes, you're right, we need scaling and why not making a widget for
that.

Cheers,
Olivier.

On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 20:29, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> 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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