Sample Code 511: How to set up about dialog? |
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Written by kksou
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Monday, 07 July 2008 |
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Problem Suppose you want to set an About dialog for your application.
This can be easily done in PHP-GTK using GtkAboutDialog as shown below:
Solution
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| <?php
$window = new GtkWindow();
$window->set_title($argv[0]);
$window->set_size_request(400, 150);
$window->connect_simple('destroy', array('Gtk','main_quit'));
$window->add($vbox = new GtkVBox());
$accel_group = new GtkAccelGroup();
$window->add_accel_group($accel_group);
// define menu definition
$menu_definition = array(
'_File' => array('_Quit'),
'_Help' => array('About'), // note 1
);
setup_menu($vbox, $menu_definition);
// display title
$title = new GtkLabel("Set up about dialog");
$title->modify_font(new PangoFontDescription("Times New Roman Italic 10"));
$title->modify_fg(Gtk::STATE_NORMAL, GdkColor::parse("#0000ff"));
$vbox->pack_start($title);
$vbox->pack_start(new GtkLabel(''));
$window->show_all();
Gtk::main();
// setup menu
function setup_menu($vbox, $menus) {
global $accel_group;
$menubar = new GtkMenuBar();
$vbox->pack_start($menubar, 0, 0);
foreach($menus as $toplevel => $sublevels) {
$menubar->append($top_menu = new GtkMenuItem($toplevel));
$menu = new GtkMenu();
$top_menu->set_submenu($menu);
foreach($sublevels as $submenu) {
if (strpos("$submenu", '|') === false) {
$accel_key = '';
} else {
list($submenu, $accel_key) = explode('|', $submenu);
}
if (is_array($submenu)) { // set up radio menus
$i=0;
$radio[0] = null;
foreach($submenu as $radio_item) {
$radio[$i] = new GtkRadioMenuItem($radio[0], $radio_item);
$radio[$i]->connect('toggled', "on_toggle");
$menu->append($radio[$i]);
++$i;
}
$radio[0]->set_active(1); // select the first item
} else {
if ($submenu=='<hr>') {
$menu->append(new GtkSeparatorMenuItem());
} else {
$submenu2 = str_replace('_', '', $submenu);
$submenu2 = str_replace(' ', '_', $submenu2);
$stock_image_name = 'Gtk::STOCK_'.strtoupper($submenu2);
if (defined($stock_image_name)) {
$menu_item = new GtkImageMenuItem(
constant($stock_image_name));
} else {
$menu_item = new GtkMenuItem($submenu);
}
if ($accel_key!='') {
$menu_item->add_accelerator("activate", $accel_group,
ord($accel_key), Gdk::CONTROL_MASK, 1);
}
$menu->append($menu_item);
$menu_item->connect('activate', 'on_menu_select');
}
}
}
}
}
// process radio menu selection
function on_toggle($radio) {
$label = $radio->child->get_label();
$active = $radio->get_active();
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Explanation We make use of the code from How to set up menu and radio menu - Part 3 - add accelerators? to set up the menu.
What's new here:
- Set up the About menu item.
- Set the name.
- Set the version.
- Set the comments.
- Set the copyright info.
- Set the license info.
- Set the logo.
- Set the website.
- Set the authors.
- Set the translators.
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July 20, 2008 6:52am
Would be great if you showed how to do the linkifying of the website too.
I remember figuring that out in plain GTK, it was a bit tricky. Also requires that you call a system command to open a url - which I don't know how to do on windows (on linux, "xdg-open " does the trick)