Comments on: Setting a custom label for a Button with stock icon in PyGTK

By: Jordan Callicoat

Jordan Callicoat — Wed, 28 May 2008 03:00:57 +0000

I believe the “canonical” way of doing this is to create new stock icons and icons sets, something like this:

stock_items = ( ("my-gtk-ok", "_Custom Label", 0, 0, None), ("my-gtk-cancel", "Custom _Label", 0, 0, None), )


stock_aliases = (

    ("my-gtk-ok", gtk.STOCK_OK),

    ("my-gtk-cancel", gtk.STOCK_CANCEL),

)
gtk.stock_add(stock_items)
factory = gtk.IconFactory()

factory.add_default()
style = gtk.Style()
for item, alias in stock_aliases:

    icon_set = style.lookup_icon_set(alias)

    factory.add(item, icon_set)
vbox = gtk.VBox()

button = gtk.Button(stock="my-gtk-ok")

vbox.pack_start(button)

button = gtk.Button(stock="my-gtk-cancel")

vbox.pack_start(button)

...

By: Harsh

Harsh — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:55:01 +0000

ekinger – Glad it was of help, and thanks for the Menu snippet as well!

By: ekingr

ekingr — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:47:41 +0000

Hi,
Thank you very much for this tip !
I’ve spent a long time before finding such post.
I needed it for the ImageMenuItem widget.
For information, it works like this :
menu=gtk.Menu() item=gtk.ImageMenuItem(gtk.STOCK_XXX) item.get_children()[0].set_label('My _MenuItem') menu.append(item) item.connect('activate', method) item.show()
@+

By: Harsh

Harsh — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 17:23:17 +0000

I was searching and I think I’d got it through a Softpedia result. This page.

And thanks for that link, its well written. :]

And yes, VB sure does have its flaws(Agree on the form resizing part, very true!), and its nowhere as powerful as Python either. I’ll try getting into using Glade this week, many thanks for the help and clarification!

By: Lars Friedrichs

Lars Friedrichs — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 17:09:13 +0000

btw, I used VB (VBA within Access to be exact) earlier too. I believed it to be rather quick and convenient but I must admit that there are serious issues with that way of designing forms. Try resizing such a form – either it’s not possible or you need very dirty hacks and it’s slow.
Having a layout manager like with gtk or java awt seems a bit strange in the beginning since one is confused where it puts things automatically but one is usually getting used to it fast and afterwards it is very rewarding. You get professional style guis and they are resizable by the user without any hassle.
Layout managers are simply better than an absolute layout – I also learned that the hard way.

Bye
Lars

By: Lars Friedrichs

Lars Friedrichs — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 17:00:58 +0000

It’s funny how small the world seems to be. So you tried my program – may I ask where you downloaded it from? Just for my statistics
Actually I can’t remember exactly where I started at but I believe it was this one:
http://www.learningpython.com/2006/05/07/creating-a-gui-using-pygtk-and-glade/
Afterwards I mostly used the official docs and google for specific problems.

Bye
Lars

By: Harsh

Harsh — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 12:01:00 +0000

Glad it was of assistance to you

I’ve actually used that Bluetooth Proximity thing once, while I was trying out all things possible using my Nokia 6681 + Ubuntu. Nice work indeed, keep it up!

I’ve tried using Glade for my PyGTK applications but its just too confusing. I’ve used VB earlier while working on Windows and designing on it was sort of easier and smoother (Being able to place anywhere at will).

But Glade is very irritating, or maybe am not adding elements into my forms the right way. Do you know of a good tutorial to start Glade with? Cause its painful manually coding in every window element.

By: Lars Friedrichs

Lars Friedrichs — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 11:04:05 +0000

Hi there,

thanks for this small advice. It qas quite handy for me since I just had the exact problem of setting a button set by glade but leaving its icon. Just using set_label on the widget itself led to a button with no icon and settings reset.
Your solution has pointed me to the solution that I recheck glade and I see the structure there that the “get_children”-stuff is all about. So now I only reference the label directly and everything is fine.

Thanks, visit http://blueproximity.sf.net to see the project where this advice was used.

Bye
Lars