[pygtk] Simple question on reusing stock item

[Alessandro Dentella]

On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 02:24:35PM +0000, Amondo Roquentin wrote:
> John Finlay wrote:
> 
> > A MenuItem is a Container so you can add anything to it. In your case
> > create an empty MenuItem and add an HBox containing an Image and a Label.
> 
> Is there a policy on the spacing to apply to HBoxes in this
> circumstance? For example, should the spacing be zero or a fixed number?

I don't have the answer, but I can point out 2 things that I wrote yesterday
erroneusly to John instead of the list  (see other mail on Repy-To).

  1. the code I attach to this message adds the icon but the alignment is
     wrong as can be seen in this image ex.:
     http://www.e-den.it/misc/menu.png

  2. in pygtk FAQ tere are 2 aswers. (It's a pity on Sunday the pygtk FAQ was
     unreachable) and the hint there shows that you can write:

        item = gtk.ImageMenuItem('Foo')

     even thought official docs say:

        gtk.ImageMenuItem(stock_id=None, accel_group=None)

     This works correctly

sandro
*:-)

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#######################   bad  ####################################
code that leads to uncorrect alignment:

  class StockMenuItem(gtk.MenuItem):

      def __init__(self, label, stock, size=gtk.ICON_SIZE_MENU):
          gtk.MenuItem.__init__(self)
          label = gtk.AccelLabel(label)
          hbox = gtk.HBox(spacing=5)
          image = gtk.Image()
          image.set_from_stock(stock, size)
          hbox.add(image)
          hbox.add(label)
          self.add(hbox)
          self.show_all()