Hi, thanks for the response Tristian it helped me move from untrusting to cautious optimism.
I'll ask my questions and attempt to be clear and thoughtful of other peoples time. However, I really would be interested in a gtk app developer wiki. Stevie. On 27/11/2011 10:18 PM, "Tristan Van Berkom" <t...@gnome.org> wrote: > > Hi, > Please feel free to ask newbie or advanced questions on this list. > > I have found this list very helpful over the years, when I started using this > list it was much much more of an "elitist" society of RTFM-like responses. > > Remember that nobody is required to respond to questions (I dont know > of any paid positions for that sort of thing, it's all volunteer work). > > If you ask a question that sounds like a demand, you will certainly get > a cold response if you get any response at all, because as I mentioned > above, anyone who answers your question is doing it on their own time. > > A clear subject line is always very important, sometimes even finding > the right way to form your question will give you the answer before > sending the email (in my first years I can remember discarding almost > half of my emails which were just questions which I had not yet phrased > properly). > > Showing/proving that you have done your part of the research and have hit > a dead-end helps to earn you sympathy points. > > For your particular question about those "MacOS button-group-thingies", > those are implemented in GTK+-3 using CSS. > > I can't tell you the exact details because I have not used that exact feature > myself. > > I expect that it works specifically for GtkButtons inside a GtkButtonBox, > the GtkButtonBox will apply pseudo classes to the first and last of its > children (allowing you to style them differently, i.e. with the round endings). > > So, all you need to do is find out if it is indeed the GtkButtonBox which > implements this pseudo-classing of it's children, or if it can be done with > a simple GtkBox... then you need to find out the actual name of the > pseudo-class (i.e. is it called "first-child" and "last-child" ?). > > Finally you need to cook up the right css to say that "first-child" children > of a "GtkButtonBox" get a specific style (probably you will provide a 9-slice > image for that). > > Good luck and welcome to our friendly list. > > Cheers, > -Tristan _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
