455. How to display a list of thumbnail images using GtkIconView - Part 2 - hide text label?

Problem

You have displayed a list of thumbnail images using GtkIconView as described in the article How to display a list of thumbnail images using GtkIconView?

Suppose the images itself are already self-explanatory, and you do not require any text labels beneath each image. You would like to display only the images as shown below:

How to display a list of thumbnail images using GtkIconView - Part 2 - hide text label?


Solution

Use GtkIconView::set_text_column(-1) to turn off the text column.


Sample Code

Note: The following image files are required by the sample code below. Please save a copy of the image files and put them in the same directory where you store the sample code.

 square_red.jpg
 square_yellow.jpg
 square_green.jpg
 square_blue.jpg
 square_blue2.jpg
 square_blue3.jpg

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<?php
$window = new GtkWindow();
$window->set_title($argv[0]);
$window->set_size_request(400, 200);
$window->connect_simple('destroy', array('Gtk','main_quit'));

$window->add($vbox = new GtkVBox());

// display title
$title = new GtkLabel("Display thumbnail images using GtkIconView\n".
"                 Part 2 - hide text labels");
$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);
$vbox->pack_start($title, 0, 0);
$vbox->pack_start(new GtkLabel(), 0, 0); // add a small gap

// Set up a scroll window
$scrolled_win = new GtkScrolledWindow();
$scrolled_win->set_policy( Gtk::POLICY_AUTOMATIC, Gtk::POLICY_AUTOMATIC);

if (defined("GObject::TYPE_STRING")) {
    $model = new GtkListStore(GdkPixbuf::gtype, GObject::TYPE_STRING);
} else {
    $model = new GtkListStore(GdkPixbuf::gtype, Gtk::TYPE_STRING);
}

foreach(array('square_red.jpg', 'square_yellow.jpg', 'square_green.jpg',
'square_blue.jpg', 'square_blue2.jpg', 'square_blue3.jpg') as $img) {
    $pixbuf = GdkPixbuf::new_from_file($img);
    $model->append(array($pixbuf, $img));
}

$view = new GtkIconView($model);
$view->set_pixbuf_column(0);
$view->set_text_column(-1); // note 1
$view->set_selection_mode(Gtk::SELECTION_MULTIPLE);
$view->set_columns(0);
$view->set_item_width(120);

$scrolled_win->add($view);
$vbox->pack_start($scrolled_win);
$window->show_all();
Gtk::main();
?>

Output

As shown above.

 

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