[pygtk] Disable signals and events to use a button as a container, not as a button?

[Ryan Martin]

That's a good question. I didn't explain why I needed to do this because 
I thought I'd confuse more. In the software I'm writing, I'm combining 
theme elements with some widget tricks to accomplish a visual task that 
I don't know is possible by any other means.

I need to have a container than I can 'skin' that can contain other 
widgets. My initial thought was to theme gtk.Frame to have borders and a 
background (like a button), and I can pack all of my widgets into that. 
Unfortunately, to my knowledge, you can't have a background on a frame 
widget. So I started cycling through other gtk widgets to see if there 
was some sort of container that I could theme, but was unable to find 
something that worked.

(http://www.ensomniac.com/pygtk/button_example2.jpg)

That led me to my latest theory, that if I were able to use a button as 
a container, I could theme gtk.Button to get the visual style I wanted, 
but also the functionality of having the widgets inside. I would need to 
disable the core button (container) from receiving and processing 
signals, but somehow pass them on to any of the widgets inside the button:

(http://www.ensomniac.com/pygtk/button_example.jpg)

And that leaves me where I'm at now. The following code will disable my 
base button from working:

*print* self.widgets.main_container_button.get_property("above-child")
>> *False**
print* self.widgets.main_container_button.set_property("above-child", True)
*print* self.widgets.main_container_button.get_property("above-child")
>> *True*

But I have no idea how to pass the events to the widgets that are 
children of the button (the 'button_2' widget and the "entry" widget in 
the image above).

If there is some other way to accomplish my task, I'm all ears. 
Currently, I'm struggling trying to get my events passed to the child 
widgets.


Thanks for the help!

Ryan








John Finlay wrote:
> Ryan Martin wrote:
>> Hey Guys,
>>     I have a strange situation that I'm having trouble finding a 
>> solution for. In the application I'm building, I would like to use a 
>> button as a container and not necessarily a button. Currently, I have 
>> a text field and another button inside my main button in question. 
>> What I would like is to disable all of the innate callbacks 
>> (prelight/hover, clicked, etc.) on that main button and just have it 
>> sit there while still being able to click the child button inside the 
>> main button or enter text into the text field.
>>
>> One thing to consider is that I need to disable callbacks on the main 
>> button but not on any of the widgets that are added to the main 
>> button as a child.
>>
>> Is this possible? Did that make sense?
>>
>> Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have scoured through old 
>> threads looking for clues.
> Why do you need to use a button as a container when you don't want to 
> use any of the button's features? Are there no GTK containers that work?
>
> John
>

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