[Glade-users] would like a stock button without the text (GtkButton), or a stock GtkToolButton that gets button-pressed-event

[Dan Hitt]

Oh for sure!

And if there's a better way to handle my use case i'm all ears.

What i would like to happen is that if i press the button, and hold it, it
starts repeating.

Ideally, it would repeat slowly at first, but as time wears on repeat
faster and faster.

If there were an attribute in the glade gui that said 'auto-repeat', i
would just check it and let the gtk machinery take care of the rest.

But afaict, i'm going to need to program it.

I have not done this yet, and it is of course a language-specific question,
but i imagine i'll fire some kind of timeout on the first press, and clear
it on the release, but until there's a release doing my action each time it
times out while shortening the next period.

So that's the plan, but if you have a way to skip the programming part and
do it all, or something similar, purely in glade, then i would be even more
grateful, and try it out.

Thanks for all your help!

dan

On Sat, Jun 25, 2016 at 2:17 AM, Gergely Polonkai <gergely at polonkai.eu>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> you’re welcome.
>
> On a side note, could you elaborate on why you need the button-pressed
> event instead of clicked? Just out of curiosity, as I rarely see valid use
> cases for this signal (and because I prefer using GtkActions).
>
> Best,
> Gergely
> On Jun 25, 2016 04:59, "Dan Hitt" <dan.hitt at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Ah, thank you very much Gergely.
>>
>> This is exactly what i need.
>>
>> A little elaboration here as to what i'm doing: i want to isolate as much
>> of the gui development to glade as possible, because it will make the app
>> look more like other apps, and probably be better than anything i could do.
>>
>> And i want to avoid text on buttons as much as possible for all the usual
>> reasons.
>>
>> I thought GtkToolButton was ideal for what i wanted, but it has trouble
>> getting the button-press-event signal, while a button has no such problem.
>>
>> Anyhow, i appreciate your help very much, and it lets me get on my way.
>>
>> dan
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 8:24 AM, Gergely Polonkai <gergely at polonkai.eu>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Add a GtkButton, and inside a GtkImage. If you are using the Glade UI,
>>> you have to check the “Add custom content” checkbox in the button
>>> properties.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Gergely
>>> Thanks Gergely for your suggestion.
>>>
>>> But how would i do that entirely in glade, and using only stock images?
>>>
>>> TIA for any info.
>>>
>>> dan
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 1:04 AM, Gergely Polonkai <gergely at polonkai.eu>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> how about you create a simple button, and add an image inside? Buttons
>>>> are containers, you can put anything inside (even a button, but that
>>>> doesn’t make much sense).
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>> Gergely
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Gergely Polonkai
>>>> [image: https://]about.me/gergely.polonkai
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>> 2016-06-24 7:49 GMT+02:00 Dan Hitt <dan.hitt at gmail.com>:
>>>>
>>>>> I would like to have a widget, created in glade, that acts like a
>>>>> button in that it gets button-press-event, and has a stock image, but
>>>>> does not have any text label.
>>>>>
>>>>> A GtkToolButton almost fits the bill, in that it has an image but no
>>>>> text.
>>>>>
>>>>> However, if you put signal handlers on a GtkToolButton, you can see
>>>>> when it is clicked, or gets a button-released-event, but the
>>>>> button-pressed-events are unreliable.   In my setup, they only show up
>>>>> for double clicks.
>>>>>
>>>>> On the other hand a GtkButton certainly does get button-pressed-event
>>>>> and button-released-event, but if it's a stock button, there does not
>>>>> seem to be a way to tell it to just not show any text.
>>>>>
>>>>> I would like to do this entirely in glade, without writing any code,
>>>>> and using only standard images.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is this possible?
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm using xubuntu 16.04, and the glade which comes with it which is
>>>>> 3.18.3.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks in advance for any clues, and i can provide more details if i'm
>>>>> leaving something out here.
>>>>>
>>>>> dan
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>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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