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montgoss · Joined: 12 Feb 2008 Posts: 4

I'm sure I'm missing something simple, but how do you remove most(or all) of the space around the text in a button?

I played with GtkAlignment widgets a little. I put the button inside the alignment widget and then changed the padding when I changed the label. That kinda worked. But it seemed to make the button smaller and the GtkAlignment actually bigger. (I can post screen shots if that doesn't make sense)

So, how is one supposed to remove/reduce the padding?

Micah Carrick · Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 5:41 pm Post subject:

You may want to take a look at resource files.

As an example, I have a text editor that has tabs which have little close buttons on the tab. I make that button nice and small using this code which is largely taken from the gedit source code:

Code: (C)

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static void
on_close_button_style_set (GtkWidget *button,
GtkStyle *previous_style,
gpointer user_data)
{
gint h, w;

gtk_icon_size_lookup_for_settings (gtk_widget_get_settings (button),
GTK_ICON_SIZE_MENU, &w, &h);

gtk_widget_set_size_request (button, w + 2, h + 2);
}

static GtkWidget *
create_close_button ()
{
GtkWidget *button;
GtkWidget *image;
GtkRcStyle *rcstyle;

button = gtk_button_new ();
gtk_button_set_relief (GTK_BUTTON (button), GTK_RELIEF_NONE);

/* don't allow focus on the close button */
gtk_button_set_focus_on_click (GTK_BUTTON (button), FALSE);

/* make it as small as possible */
rcstyle = gtk_rc_style_new ();
rcstyle->xthickness = rcstyle->ythickness = 0;
gtk_widget_modify_style (button, rcstyle);
gtk_rc_style_unref (rcstyle);

image = gtk_image_new_from_stock (GTK_STOCK_CLOSE, GTK_ICON_SIZE_MENU);
gtk_widget_show (image);
gtk_container_add (GTK_CONTAINER (button), image);

/* Set minimal size */
g_signal_connect (button, "style-set",
G_CALLBACK (on_close_button_style_set), NULL);

return button;
}