Toggle buttons are derived from normal buttons and are very similar,
except they will always be in one of two states, alternated by a
click. They may be depressed, and when you click again, they will pop
back up. Click again, and they will pop back down.
Toggle buttons are the basis for check buttons and radio buttons, as
such, many of the calls used for toggle buttons are inherited by radio
and check buttons. I will point these out when we come to them.
Creating a new toggle button:
GtkWidget *gtk_toggle_button_new( void );
GtkWidget *gtk_toggle_button_new_with_label( gchar *label ); |
As you can imagine, these work identically to the normal button widget
calls. The first creates a blank toggle button, and the second, a
button with a label widget already packed into it.
To retrieve the state of the toggle widget, including radio and check
buttons, we use a construct as shown in our example below. This tests
the state of the toggle, by accessing the active field of the
toggle widget's structure, after first using the
GTK_TOGGLE_BUTTON macro to cast the widget pointer into a toggle
widget pointer. The signal of interest to us emitted by toggle
buttons (the toggle button, check button, and radio button widgets) is
the "toggled" signal. To check the state of these buttons, set up a
signal handler to catch the toggled signal, and access the structure
to determine its state. The callback will look something like:
void toggle_button_callback (GtkWidget *widget, gpointer data)
{
if (GTK_TOGGLE_BUTTON (widget)->active)
{
/* If control reaches here, the toggle button is down */
} else {
/* If control reaches here, the toggle button is up */
}
} |
To force the state of a toggle button, and its children, the radio and
check buttons, use this function:
void gtk_toggle_button_set_active( GtkToggleButton *toggle_button,
gint state ); |
The above call can be used to set the state of the toggle button, and
its children the radio and check buttons. Passing in your created
button as the first argument, and a TRUE or FALSE for the second state
argument to specify whether it should be down (depressed) or up
(released). Default is up, or FALSE.
Note that when you use the gtk_toggle_button_set_active() function, and
the state is actually changed, it causes the "clicked" and "toggled"
signals to be emitted from the button.
gboolean gtk_toggle_button_get_active (GtkToggleButton *toggle_button); |
This returns the current state of the toggle button as a boolean
TRUE/FALSE value.
