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

[Ryan Martin]

Hey John,
    Thanks for the response. Yes, technically that would work, except 
that you can't stretch the background of an event box. It only tiles. As 
the style is applied to other sized event boxes, the background texture 
would not stretch and resize.

If anybody knows a way to make the background pixmap for an event box 
stretch, I'd be all set. Any ideas?

Thanks
Ryan








John Finlay wrote:
> Have you tried using an eventbox inside the frame to hold the vbox 
> that holds the other stuff? I believe that the purpose of the eventbox 
> is to do just the kind of thing you want i.e. set the bg_pixmap for 
> the eventbox to some custom pixmap that represents your style.
>
> John
>
> Ryan Martin wrote:
>> 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
>>
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>> 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
>>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Ryan Martin
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>>
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