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Sample Code 299: How to setup a dialog box of values presented in a table?
Written by kksou   
Tuesday, 07 August 2007
Problem

The GtkDialog constructor example in the offical PHP-GTK2 documentation shows only how to get a yes/no response using a dialog box with GtkButtons.

Suppose you would like to get inputs from user, and the list of options are better presented in a 2d matrix or table as shown below:

How to setup a dialog box of values presented in a table?


Solution

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<?php
$window = new GtkWindow();
$window->set_title($argv[0]);
$window->set_size_request(400, 120);
$window->connect_simple('destroy', array('Gtk','main_quit'));
$window->add($vbox = new GtkVBox());

// display title
$title = new GtkLabel("Set up Dialog Box of values\n".
    "presented in a GtkTable");
$title->modify_font(new PangoFontDescription("Times New Roman Italic 10"));
$title->modify_fg(Gtk::STATE_NORMAL, GdkColor::parse("#0000ff"));
$title->set_size_request(-1, 40);
$title->set_justify(Gtk::JUSTIFY_CENTER);
$alignment = new GtkAlignment(0.5, 0, 0, 0);
$alignment->add($title);
$vbox->pack_start($alignment, 0, 0);
$vbox->pack_start(new GtkLabel(), 0, 0);

$vbox->pack_start($hbox = new GtkHBox(), 0);
$hbox->pack_start(new GtkLabel('Response: '), 0);
$hbox->pack_start($response = new GtkLabel(), 0);
$hbox->pack_start($button = new GtkButton('Get Response'), 0);
$button->connect('clicked', 'on_click');

$window->show_all();
Gtk::main();

function on_click() {
    setup_dialog();
}

function setup_dialog() {

    $dialog = new GtkDialog();

    $dialog->vbox->pack_start(new GtkLabel('Select by clicking the desired item: '));

    $data = array(
        array('', 'option 1', 'option 2', 'option 3'),
        array('Product 0', 'item0.1', 'item0.2', 'item0.3'),
        array('Product 1', 'item1.1', 'item1.2', 'item1.3'),
        array('Product 2', 'item2.1', 'item2.2', 'item2.3'),
        array('Product 3', 'item3.1', 'item3.2', 'item3.3'),
        array('Product 4', 'item4.1', 'item4.2', 'item4.3'));

    $table = new GtkTable(); // note 1
    $dialog->vbox->pack_start($table, 0, 0);
    display_table ($table, $data, $dialog); // note 2

    $dialog->set_has_separator(false);
    $dialog->action_area->set_size_request(-1, 1);
    $dialog->show_all();

    global $selected_item;
    $selected_item = '';
    $dialog->run();
    $dialog->destroy();

    global $response;
    $response->set_text("$selected_item"); // note 5

}

function on_ok_button($button, $dialog) {
    global $selected_radio;
    if ($selected_radio=='') {
        alert("Please make a selection.");
    } else {
        $dialog->destroy();
    }
}

function display_table($table, $data, $dialog) {
    for ($row=0; $row<count($data); ++$row) {
        for ($col=0; $col<count($data[$row]); ++$col) {
            $frame = new GtkFrame();
            $eventbox = new GtkEventBox();
            $frame->add($eventbox);
            $eventbox->add($label = new GtkLabel($data[$row][$col]));
            if ($col==0 || $row==0) {
                $label->modify_font(new PangoFontDescription("Arial Bold"));
            }
            if ($row==0 && $col>0) {
                $eventbox->modify_bg(Gtk::STATE_NORMAL,
                GdkColor::parse("#FFCC66"));
            } elseif ($row%2==0 && $col>0) {
                $eventbox->modify_bg(Gtk::STATE_NORMAL,
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Explanation

We make use of the code from How to setup a dialog box - Part 3 - set up buttons manually? to set up the popup dialog box.

We also make use of the code from How to display a 2D array in table - Part 5? to display the options in a table.

What's new here:

  1. Create a new GtkTable.
  2. Display the options in a matrix.
  3. Process mouse click. Note that we save the selected item together with its value in the global variable $selected_item.
  4. Manually close the dialog.
  5. Echo the selected item.

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