203. How to use stock images for buttons?

Problem

There are a list of pre-defined stock images as listed here.

You would like to create a list of buttons using these pre-defined stock images. On linux you will see this:

How to use stock images for buttons?

However, on winxp, some of you will only see the text labels without the graphics as shown below:

For windows users, you would like to see the stock images too.


Solution

  • To create buttons with pre-defined stock images, use GtkButton::new_from_stock (stock_id).
  • For windows users, in order to see the stock images, look for a file called gtkrc. If you have used Gnope Installer to set up php-gtk2, it should be in <dir>\etc\gtk-2.0, where <dir> is the directory where you have installed php-gtk2. Open the file with an editor, on line 5, you should see a line gtk-button-images = 0. Change the 0 to 1 and save the file. Run the script again. You should be able to see the stock images now.

Sample Code

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<?php
$window = new GtkWindow();
$window->set_size_request(400, 200);
$window->connect_simple('destroy', array('Gtk','main_quit'));
$window->add($vbox = new GtkVBox());

// display title
$title = new GtkLabel("Using Stock Images for Buttons");
$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);

// setup button
$vbox->pack_start($hbox = new GtkHBox(), 0);
$hbox->pack_start(GtkButton::new_from_stock(Gtk::STOCK_NEW), 0); // note 1
$hbox->pack_start(GtkButton::new_from_stock(Gtk::STOCK_OPEN), 0); // note 1
$hbox->pack_start(GtkButton::new_from_stock(Gtk::STOCK_CLOSE), 0); // note 1

$vbox->pack_start(new GtkLabel(), 0);

$vbox->pack_start($hbox = new GtkHBox(), 0);
$hbox->pack_start(GtkButton::new_from_stock(Gtk::STOCK_MEDIA_PREVIOUS), 0);
$hbox->pack_start(GtkButton::new_from_stock(Gtk::STOCK_MEDIA_PLAY), 0);
$hbox->pack_start(GtkButton::new_from_stock(Gtk::STOCK_MEDIA_STOP), 0);
$hbox->pack_start(GtkButton::new_from_stock(Gtk::STOCK_MEDIA_NEXT), 0);

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

?>

Output

As shown above.

 

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