When you skin a button (and certain other widgets), you can control the
amount of pixels on top, left right and bottom to remain intact. Those
pixels do not scale when the widget is resized. The rest of the pixels
inside the widget scale as normal. This is what keeps button borders
from scaling horizontally or vertically and distorting, creating ugly
edges.
This example should show you what I mean:
http://www.ensomniac.com/pygtk/button_example8.jpg
Ryan
John Finlay wrote:
Ryan Martin wrote:
Hey Guys
For all intensive purposes, an eventBox can have widgets packed into
it as I need and it can also have the background set as a style
property ala "bg_pixmap[NORMAL] = 'something.png'". My problem is
that the background needs to stretch, not tile. Like this:
http://www.ensomniac.com/pygtk/button_example3.jpg
When looking at the image above, please consider that I need to pack
widgets inside the blue graphic area. That is why I need to use some
form of container. I can't use an image widget, I can't use anything
that won't let me pack widgets inside the graphic area.
The reason I initially decided to go with a button was because I knew
I could skin it (it has advanced skinning functionality allowing you
to stretch the pixmap while leaving the borders of the graphic
intact) and it could act as a container for other widgets. The
problem with using a button is that each time you hover over the main
container button, it steals all of the events that I want to go to
the child widgets. My initial post was looking for ideas on how I
could disable the main button from events and just use it as a
graphic container for my child widgets which would still need to work
as expected. This has proven to be impossible?
<snip>
What is the advanced skinning functionality of a Button? This is
something I'm not aware of.
John
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