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<!-- NOTE: Use only one author tag, otherwise sgml2txt barfs - TRG -->
<author>Nathan Froyd, Tony Gale, Shawn T. Amundson, Emmanuel Deloget
<date>July 14th 1999
<date>August 10th 1999
<abstract> This document is intended to answer questions that are likely to be
frequently asked by programmers using GTK+ or people who are just looking at
@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ using GTK+.
The FAQ authors want to thank:
<itemize>
<item>Havoc Pennington
<item>Eric Mouw
<item>Erik Mouw
<item>Owen Taylor
<item>Tim Janik
<item>Thomas Mailund Jensen
@ -103,10 +103,20 @@ reference material for both GTK and GDK, this FAQ and the
GTK Tutorial.
In addition, you can find links to HTML versions of these documents
by going to
<htmlurl url="http://www.gtk.org/"
name="http://www.gtk.org/">.
by going to <htmlurl url="http://www.gtk.org/"
name="http://www.gtk.org/">. A packaged version of the GTK Tutorial,
with SGML, HTML, Postscript, DVI and text versions can be found in
<htmlurl url="ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/tutorial"
name="ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/tutorial">
There is also a book available that details programming with GTK+ and
GDK which has been written by Eric Harlow. It is entitled "Developing
Linux Applications with GTK+ and GDK" and is available at all good
book stores. The ISBN is 0-7357-0021-4
The example code from Eric's book is available on-line at
<htmlurl url="http://www.bcpl.net/~eharlow/book"
name="http://www.bcpl.net/~eharlow/book">
<!-- ----------------------------------------------------------------- -->
<sect1>Is there a mailing list (or mailing list archive) for GTK+?
@ -125,9 +135,9 @@ email message to <htmlurl url="mailto:gtk-list-request@redhat.com"
name="gtk-list-request@redhat.com">
with <em>subscribe</em> in the <bf>subject</bf>.
<p>
A searchable archive of the mailing list can be found at
<htmlurl url="http://archive.redhat.com/gtk-list"
name="http://archive.redhat.com/gtk-list">
An archive of the mailing list can be found at
<htmlurl url="http://www.gnome.org/mailing-lists/archives/gtk-list"
name="http://www.gnome.org/mailing-lists/archives/gtk-list">
</itemize>
<!-- ----------------------------------------------------------------- -->
<sect1>The gtk-list hasn't had any traffic for days, is it dead?
@ -944,6 +954,35 @@ carefully.
Regardless, it's especially not a priority since relatively good
workarounds exist. -->
<!-- ----------------------------------------------------------------- -->
<sect1>How to I identifiy a widgets top level window or other ancestor?
<p>
There are a couple of ways to find the top level parent of a
widget. The easier way is to call the <tt/gtk_widget_top_level()/
function that returns a pointer to a GtkWidget that is the top level
window.
A more complicated way to do this (but less limited, as it allows
the user to get the closest ancestor of a known type) is to use
<tt/gtk_widget_get_ancestor()/ as in:
<tscreen><verb>
GtkWidget *widget;
widget = gtk_widget_get_ancestor(w, GTK_TYPE_WINDOW);
</verb></tscreen>
Since virtually all the GTK_TYPEs can be used as the second parameter of
this function, you can get any parent widget of a particular
widget. Suppose you have an hbox which contains a vbox, which in turn contains
some other atomic widget (entry, label, etc. To find the master hbox
using the <tt/entry/ widget simply use:
<tscreen><verb>
GtkWidget *hbox;
hbox = gtk_widget_get_ancestor(w, GTK_TYPE_HBOX);
</verb></tscreen>
<!-- ----------------------------------------------------------------- -->
<sect1>How do I find out about the selection of a GtkList?
<p>
@ -1055,10 +1094,48 @@ Old versions of GTK+ used to provide the <tt/gtk_container_enable_resize()/ and
modifying widgets.
In the current version of GTK+, there is no more need for these functions,
since GTK+ will only resize widget during idle.
since GTK+ will only resize a widget during idle.
<!-- XXX should we get rid of this one ? -->
<!-- ----------------------------------------------------------------- -->
<sect1>I don't want the user of my applications to enter text into a GtkCombo. Any idea?
<p>
A GtkCombo has an associated entry which can be accessed using the
following expression:
<tscreen><verb>
GTK_COMBO(combo_widget)->entry
</verb></tscreen>
If you don't want the user to be able to modify the content of this
entry, you can use the gtk_entry_set_editable() function:
<tscreen><verb>
void gtk_entry_set_editable(GtkEntry *entry,
gboolean editable);
</verb></tscreen>
Set the editable parameter to FALSE to disable typing into the entry.
<!-- ----------------------------------------------------------------- -->
<sect1>How do I catch a combo box change?
<p>
The entry which is associated to your GtkCombo send a "changed" signal when:
<itemize>
<item>some text is typed in
<item>the selection of the combo box is changed
</itemize>
To catch any combo box change, simply connect your signal handler with
<tscreen><verb>
gtk_signal_connect(GTK_COMBO(cb)->entry,
"changed",
GTK_SIGNAL_FUNC(my_cb_change_handler),
NULL);
</verb></tscreen>
<!-- ----------------------------------------------------------------- -->
<sect1>How do I catch a double click event (in a list widget, for example)?
<p>
@ -1453,6 +1530,38 @@ To disable (or to enable) a widget, use the <tt/gtk_widget_set_sensitive()/
function. The first parameter is you widget pointer. The second parameter
is a boolean value: when this value is TRUE, the widget is enabled.
<!-- ----------------------------------------------------------------- -->
<sect1>How do I use horizontal scrollbars with a GtkText widget?
<p>
The short answer is that you can't. The current version of the GtkText
widget does not support horizontal scrolling. There is an intention to
completely rewrite the GtkText widget, at which time this limitation
will be removed.
<!-- ----------------------------------------------------------------- -->
<sect1>How do I change the font of a GtkText widget?
<p>
There are a couple of ways of doing this. As GTK+ allows the
appearance of applications to be changed at run time using resources
you can use something like the following in the appropriate
file:
<tscreen><verb>
style "text"
{
font = "-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--*-100-*-*-*-*-*-*"
}
</verb></tscreen>
Another way to do this is to load a font within your program, and then
use this in the functions for adding text to the text widget. You can
load a font using, for example:
<tscreen><verb>
GdkFont *font;
font = gdk_font_load("-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--*-140-*-*-*-*-*-*");
</verb></tscreen>
<!-- ----------------------------------------------------------------- -->
<sect1>How do I set the cursor position in a GtkText object?
<p>
@ -1530,7 +1639,7 @@ and the underlying X library really doesn't like this.
The right function to use here is <tt/_exit()/.
Eric Mouw gave the following piece of code about the fork()/exit() problem
Erik Mouw gave the following piece of code about the fork()/exit() problem
(slightly modified)
<tscreen><verb>
@ -1617,6 +1726,7 @@ and safer to use on multiple platforms.
<!-- Examples, anybody? I've been mulling some over. NF -->
<!-- ----------------------------------------------------------------- -->
<sect1>How do I use color allocation?
<p>
One of the nice things about GDK is that it's based on top of Xlib; this is
@ -1784,8 +1894,8 @@ This document is maintained by Nathan Froyd
name="&lt;maestrox@geocities.com&gt;">,
Tony Gale <htmlurl url="mailto:gale@gimp.org"
name="&lt;gale@gimp.org&gt;"> and
Emmanuel Deloget <htmlurl url="mailto:pixel@epita.fr"
name="&lt;pixel@epita.fr&gt;">.
Emmanuel Deloget <htmlurl url="mailto:logout@free.fr"
name="&lt;logout@free.fr&gt;">.
This FAQ was created by Shawn T. Amundson
<htmlurl url="mailto:amundson@gimp.org"
name="&lt;amundson@gimp.org&gt;"> who continues to provide support.

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<!-- NOTE: Use only one author tag, otherwise sgml2txt barfs - TRG -->
<author>Nathan Froyd, Tony Gale, Shawn T. Amundson, Emmanuel Deloget
<date>July 14th 1999
<date>August 10th 1999
<abstract> This document is intended to answer questions that are likely to be
frequently asked by programmers using GTK+ or people who are just looking at
@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ using GTK+.
The FAQ authors want to thank:
<itemize>
<item>Havoc Pennington
<item>Eric Mouw
<item>Erik Mouw
<item>Owen Taylor
<item>Tim Janik
<item>Thomas Mailund Jensen
@ -103,10 +103,20 @@ reference material for both GTK and GDK, this FAQ and the
GTK Tutorial.
In addition, you can find links to HTML versions of these documents
by going to
<htmlurl url="http://www.gtk.org/"
name="http://www.gtk.org/">.
by going to <htmlurl url="http://www.gtk.org/"
name="http://www.gtk.org/">. A packaged version of the GTK Tutorial,
with SGML, HTML, Postscript, DVI and text versions can be found in
<htmlurl url="ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/tutorial"
name="ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/tutorial">
There is also a book available that details programming with GTK+ and
GDK which has been written by Eric Harlow. It is entitled "Developing
Linux Applications with GTK+ and GDK" and is available at all good
book stores. The ISBN is 0-7357-0021-4
The example code from Eric's book is available on-line at
<htmlurl url="http://www.bcpl.net/~eharlow/book"
name="http://www.bcpl.net/~eharlow/book">
<!-- ----------------------------------------------------------------- -->
<sect1>Is there a mailing list (or mailing list archive) for GTK+?
@ -125,9 +135,9 @@ email message to <htmlurl url="mailto:gtk-list-request@redhat.com"
name="gtk-list-request@redhat.com">
with <em>subscribe</em> in the <bf>subject</bf>.
<p>
A searchable archive of the mailing list can be found at
<htmlurl url="http://archive.redhat.com/gtk-list"
name="http://archive.redhat.com/gtk-list">
An archive of the mailing list can be found at
<htmlurl url="http://www.gnome.org/mailing-lists/archives/gtk-list"
name="http://www.gnome.org/mailing-lists/archives/gtk-list">
</itemize>
<!-- ----------------------------------------------------------------- -->
<sect1>The gtk-list hasn't had any traffic for days, is it dead?
@ -944,6 +954,35 @@ carefully.
Regardless, it's especially not a priority since relatively good
workarounds exist. -->
<!-- ----------------------------------------------------------------- -->
<sect1>How to I identifiy a widgets top level window or other ancestor?
<p>
There are a couple of ways to find the top level parent of a
widget. The easier way is to call the <tt/gtk_widget_top_level()/
function that returns a pointer to a GtkWidget that is the top level
window.
A more complicated way to do this (but less limited, as it allows
the user to get the closest ancestor of a known type) is to use
<tt/gtk_widget_get_ancestor()/ as in:
<tscreen><verb>
GtkWidget *widget;
widget = gtk_widget_get_ancestor(w, GTK_TYPE_WINDOW);
</verb></tscreen>
Since virtually all the GTK_TYPEs can be used as the second parameter of
this function, you can get any parent widget of a particular
widget. Suppose you have an hbox which contains a vbox, which in turn contains
some other atomic widget (entry, label, etc. To find the master hbox
using the <tt/entry/ widget simply use:
<tscreen><verb>
GtkWidget *hbox;
hbox = gtk_widget_get_ancestor(w, GTK_TYPE_HBOX);
</verb></tscreen>
<!-- ----------------------------------------------------------------- -->
<sect1>How do I find out about the selection of a GtkList?
<p>
@ -1055,10 +1094,48 @@ Old versions of GTK+ used to provide the <tt/gtk_container_enable_resize()/ and
modifying widgets.
In the current version of GTK+, there is no more need for these functions,
since GTK+ will only resize widget during idle.
since GTK+ will only resize a widget during idle.
<!-- XXX should we get rid of this one ? -->
<!-- ----------------------------------------------------------------- -->
<sect1>I don't want the user of my applications to enter text into a GtkCombo. Any idea?
<p>
A GtkCombo has an associated entry which can be accessed using the
following expression:
<tscreen><verb>
GTK_COMBO(combo_widget)->entry
</verb></tscreen>
If you don't want the user to be able to modify the content of this
entry, you can use the gtk_entry_set_editable() function:
<tscreen><verb>
void gtk_entry_set_editable(GtkEntry *entry,
gboolean editable);
</verb></tscreen>
Set the editable parameter to FALSE to disable typing into the entry.
<!-- ----------------------------------------------------------------- -->
<sect1>How do I catch a combo box change?
<p>
The entry which is associated to your GtkCombo send a "changed" signal when:
<itemize>
<item>some text is typed in
<item>the selection of the combo box is changed
</itemize>
To catch any combo box change, simply connect your signal handler with
<tscreen><verb>
gtk_signal_connect(GTK_COMBO(cb)->entry,
"changed",
GTK_SIGNAL_FUNC(my_cb_change_handler),
NULL);
</verb></tscreen>
<!-- ----------------------------------------------------------------- -->
<sect1>How do I catch a double click event (in a list widget, for example)?
<p>
@ -1453,6 +1530,38 @@ To disable (or to enable) a widget, use the <tt/gtk_widget_set_sensitive()/
function. The first parameter is you widget pointer. The second parameter
is a boolean value: when this value is TRUE, the widget is enabled.
<!-- ----------------------------------------------------------------- -->
<sect1>How do I use horizontal scrollbars with a GtkText widget?
<p>
The short answer is that you can't. The current version of the GtkText
widget does not support horizontal scrolling. There is an intention to
completely rewrite the GtkText widget, at which time this limitation
will be removed.
<!-- ----------------------------------------------------------------- -->
<sect1>How do I change the font of a GtkText widget?
<p>
There are a couple of ways of doing this. As GTK+ allows the
appearance of applications to be changed at run time using resources
you can use something like the following in the appropriate
file:
<tscreen><verb>
style "text"
{
font = "-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--*-100-*-*-*-*-*-*"
}
</verb></tscreen>
Another way to do this is to load a font within your program, and then
use this in the functions for adding text to the text widget. You can
load a font using, for example:
<tscreen><verb>
GdkFont *font;
font = gdk_font_load("-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--*-140-*-*-*-*-*-*");
</verb></tscreen>
<!-- ----------------------------------------------------------------- -->
<sect1>How do I set the cursor position in a GtkText object?
<p>
@ -1530,7 +1639,7 @@ and the underlying X library really doesn't like this.
The right function to use here is <tt/_exit()/.
Eric Mouw gave the following piece of code about the fork()/exit() problem
Erik Mouw gave the following piece of code about the fork()/exit() problem
(slightly modified)
<tscreen><verb>
@ -1617,6 +1726,7 @@ and safer to use on multiple platforms.
<!-- Examples, anybody? I've been mulling some over. NF -->
<!-- ----------------------------------------------------------------- -->
<sect1>How do I use color allocation?
<p>
One of the nice things about GDK is that it's based on top of Xlib; this is
@ -1784,8 +1894,8 @@ This document is maintained by Nathan Froyd
name="&lt;maestrox@geocities.com&gt;">,
Tony Gale <htmlurl url="mailto:gale@gimp.org"
name="&lt;gale@gimp.org&gt;"> and
Emmanuel Deloget <htmlurl url="mailto:pixel@epita.fr"
name="&lt;pixel@epita.fr&gt;">.
Emmanuel Deloget <htmlurl url="mailto:logout@free.fr"
name="&lt;logout@free.fr&gt;">.
This FAQ was created by Shawn T. Amundson
<htmlurl url="mailto:amundson@gimp.org"
name="&lt;amundson@gimp.org&gt;"> who continues to provide support.