Chapter 16 - Widget Writing
This chapter, when complete, will describe three widgets, each one corresponding
to one of the three widget types in Gtk+ -- composite, control, and container.
The control widget that I will develop, GtkSegment, is a 7-segment LED display
widget. The composite widget, GtkTicker, is a horizontal ticker widget. I
have yet to decide what I will do for a composite widget.
The following screen shot illustrates a sample appliction that uses the control
and container widgets I developed. Each entry in the ticker consists of an
icon, and a temperature. The color of the icon is largely irrelevant. The
color of the temperature, however, indicates its status -- higher temperatures
are critical (red), normal temperatures are shown in green, and temperatures
approaching critical are displayed in yellow.
If you click on one of the hourglass-shaped icons, a dialog appears displaying
information about the device as shown in the following example:
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for the source code and makefile (GtkSegment, GtkTicker, and the above example
app). Text for Chapter 16 will follow -- please check back.
