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[gtk-list] Re: Stupid feature requests
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Shawn T Amundson)
Thu Jun 12 12:44:52 1997
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 11:44:23 -0500 (CDT)
From: Shawn T Amundson <amundson@cs.umn.edu>
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On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, Otto Hammersmith wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 12, 1997 at 06:18:42PM +0300, Martynas Kunigelis wrote:
> >
> > 1. Why not make the button label/pixmap/whatever move along with the
> > button itself when the button is clicked? Motif is the only toolkit
> > that does not do this and why should gtk inherit bad things?
>
> Because it used to be that you could specify five different pixmaps
> for the various states of a button. If you wanted a pixmap that
> moved, you just provided another pixmap. It worked, but resulted in a
> lot of excess code. (the advantage now is better handling of
> backgrounds...)
>
> Apparently Spencer changed how GtkPixmap widgets work, so that may not
> be the case any longer. I haven't had the time to look at it... so
> I'm not sure there is a way to do it anymore. :-/
Isn't this just a matter of shifting the widget that is in the button
down and right 2(?) pixels? It shouldn't make a difference what widget it
is, whether it's a label, pixmap, or a container with both.
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Shawn T. Amundson University of Minnesota
Systems Administration Computer Science System Staff
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