Problems changing GtkToolButton icon

William J Giddings · **Joined:** Sun Jan 17, 2010 6:48 pm **Posts:** 100

I'm working on creating a tool bar menu item that will allow me to select a colour from a pull-down menu. When a new colour is selected I then want to set a different icon in the toolbutton but this never seems to work. The follow snippet shows the functions and type of settings used.

Code:

...
GtkWidget *biggerImg = gtk_image_new_from_file ( "./bigger.png" );
bigger = gtk_tool_button_new  (biggerImg,"");
gtk_image_menu_item_set_image ( bigger, biggerImg );
gtk_image_menu_item_set_always_show_image ( bigger, TRUE );
...
....
GtkWidget *smallerImg = gtk_image_new_from_file ( "./smaller.png" );
gtk_image_menu_item_set_image ( bigger,smallerImg );

At first Everything works fine. The icon is reset with no problems but is never displayed! Although the button is empty it is still usable. There are no Gtk+ console messages and the app doesn't crash.

Has anyone encountered this problem and ever solved it? I'm linking against Gtk+2.22.

Will

William J Giddings · **Joined:** Sun Jan 17, 2010 6:48 pm **Posts:** 100

I guess that this setting of the icon is intended to be a 'one-off' operation. So, I've come up with this workaround. The code is straight out of my project sources but the required sequence of Gtk+ function calls can be easily recognised.

Code:

/**
\brief   Configure menubutton settings
\note   This cannot be done directly. The menubutton needs to be replaced with a new item with the desired icon.
**/
static void doCyanBg ( GtkToolButton *toolbutton, gpointer user_data )
{

   RichTextToolbarParams *para = ( RichTextToolbarParams * ) user_data;
   para->bgClr = "<span background='cyan'>";

   /* get the position in the toolbar and a copy of the menu pointer */
   gint idx = gtk_toolbar_get_item_index (para->toolBar, para->bg);
   GtkWidget *mnu = gtk_menu_tool_button_get_menu (para->bg);
   
   /* release the sub-menu, detroy the menubutton */
   gtk_menu_tool_button_set_menu (para->bg,NULL);
   gtk_widget_destroy (para->bg);

   /* create a new button, assign menu and insert into toolbar */
   para->bgImg = gtk_image_new_from_file ( "./cyanBg.png"  );
   para->bg =  gtk_menu_tool_button_new ( para->bgImg, "" );
   gtk_menu_tool_button_set_menu (para->bg,mnu);
   gtk_widget_show(para->bg);
   gtk_tool_button_set_icon_widget ( para->bg, para->bgImg );
   gtk_toolbar_insert (para->toolBar, para->bg, idx);

}

William J Giddings · **Joined:** Sun Jan 17, 2010 6:48 pm **Posts:** 100

Arrgh! I should have thought about this before! All that was require was to call gtk_widget_show on the new image widget. So, all the above can be replaced with something like the following.

Code:

/**
\brief
**/
static void doMagentaBg ( GtkToolButton *toolbutton, gpointer user_data )
{
   g_print ( "%s\n", __FUNCTION__ );

   RichTextToolbarParams *para = ( RichTextToolbarParams * ) user_data;
   para->bgClr = "<span background='magenta'>";

   para->bgImg = gtk_image_new_from_file ( "./magentaBg.png"  );
   gtk_widget_show(para->bgImg);
   gtk_tool_button_set_icon_widget ( para->bg, para->bgImg );
   

}

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