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javigis · Familiar Face Joined: 18 May 2007 Posts: 8

Hi all.How can i add a label to a simple button?and how to change the size of the font?
Has anyone a little sample?
Thanks

openldev · Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 8:57 pm Post subject:

GtkButton is derived from GtkBin, which means that it is a container that can hold one child. (Note that the child may be a container itself!) So, you can do the following to add a label to a button:

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10	GtkWidget button, label; button = gtk_button_new (); label = gtk_label_new ("Hello"); gtk_container_add (GTK_CONTAINER (button), label); PangoFontDescription *fd; fd = pango_font_description_from_string ("Sans 12"); gtk_widget_modify_font (label, fd); pango_font_description_free (fd);

If you only want to add a label to the button, you could just create a button with gtk_button_new_with_label(). Then, create a PangoFontDescription and call gtk_widget_modify_font() on the button instead. This way is preferred. I only showed you the previous example so that you would know how to add other types of widgets to a GtkButton. (There are huge sections dedicated to this in my book, Foundations of GTK+ Development, fyi) :)

javigis · Familiar Face Joined: 18 May 2007 Posts: 8

Thanks a lot for the help. I´ll try it.