Hi, someone in the Chatterbox asked if I knew how to change the text in a gtk2 stock icon button. It wasn't as straight forward as I thought, as setting the label caused the icon to be lost. Muppet( perl/gtk2 maillist guru) showed me this neat sub to do it. If you are into Gtk2, this may come in handy.
#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use Glib qw/TRUE FALSE/; use Gtk2 '-init'; # create a new window my $window = Gtk2::Window->new('toplevel'); $window ->signal_connect( "destroy" => sub { Gtk2->main_quit; } ); my $vbox = Gtk2::VBox->new( FALSE, 0 ); $window->add($vbox); $vbox->set_border_width(2); my $button = Gtk2::Button->new_from_stock('gtk-close'); my $button1 = Gtk2::Button->new_from_stock('gtk-close'); my $button2 = Gtk2::Button->new_from_stock('gtk-close'); $button->set_label('uh oh lost icon'); #won't work # sub by muppet find_and_set_label_in ($button2->child, "This worked"); $button->signal_connect( "clicked" => \&callback, "cool button" ); $button1->signal_connect( "clicked" => \&callback, "cool button1" ); $button2->signal_connect( "clicked" => \&callback, "cool button2" ); $vbox->pack_start( $button, FALSE, FALSE, 0 ); $vbox->pack_start( $button1, FALSE, FALSE, 0 ); $vbox->pack_start( $button2, FALSE, FALSE, 0 ); $window->show_all(); Gtk2->main; ################################################## # our usual callback function sub callback { my $widget = shift; my $data = shift; printf "Hello again - %s was pressed\n", $data; } ################################################## sub find_and_set_label_in { # recursive muppet magic my ($widget, $text) = @_; print "@_\n"; if ($widget->isa (Gtk2::Container::)) { $widget->foreach (sub { find_and_set_label_in ($_[0], $text); } +); } elsif ($widget->isa (Gtk2::Label::)) { $widget->set_text ($text); } }

In reply to Gtk2 Icon Button change text by zentara

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