Michael Gilfix wrote:
> Hi. I think I've stumbled upon a bug in 0.6.8 or perhaps I'm
>doing stuff correctly. I wish to be able to gray out a button
>and then re-enable it. So to disable it I do:
>
> button.set_state (GTK.STATE_INSENSITIVE)
>
> then later to re-enable it, I do:
>
> button.set_state (GTK.STATE_NORMAL)
>
> However, once I set the button state to insensitive, I can no longer
>change it to any other state. This is not true for switching between
>other states such as STATE_ACTIVE and STATE_NORMAL. Has anyone else
>encountered this bug? Or have a work around?
>
> In addition, do I use the set_state function gray out menu items
>as well?
>
If you want to disable a button (ie. make it insensitive), don't use the
set_state() call. Instead, use:
button.set_sensitive(gtk.FALSE)
and use TRUE to re-enable it. set_state() is more for use by widget
implementors.
James.
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