The second mail in this series is about new widget-level features in GTK+ 2.12.
GtkScaleButton is a simple new widget, a button that pops up a slider. GtkVolumeButton is a concrete subclass that configures GtkScaleButton with icons and tooltips suitable for a volume control, as used in many multimedia applications. GtkRecentAction is an action that represent a recent-files list. It can be used to populate a menu or a menutoolbutton. The GtkRange family of widgets supports the display of "fill levels" now. This feature is sometimes used to indicate pre-buffering, e.g. when playing media streams over a slow connection. This feature is controlled by the properties GtkRange:fill-level, GtkRange:restrict-to-fill-level and GtkRange:show-fill-level. The progress cell renderer draws its progress bar using the theme now, so they appear the same as in the progress bar widget. It also supports "activity mode" (controlled by the GtkCellRendererProgress:pulse property) and can position the text non-centered, using the GtkCellRendererProgress:text-xalign and GtkCellRendererProgress:text-yalign properties. GtkTextView can now accumulate margins that are specified in tags (via GtkTextTag:accumulative-margins, and those margins can be negative. GtkTextMarks can be created without reference to a text buffer, and can be added to and removed from buffers at a later time. This makes it possible to derive and use custom mark classes. See gtk_text_mark_new(), gtk_text_buffer_add_mark(). The GtkNotebook API additions in 2.10 for tab DND have been critizised for not being flexible enough; the numeric GtkNotebook:group-id property has been superseded by GtkNotebook:group, and the global gtk_notebook_set_window_creation_hook() has been superseded by a GtkNotebook::create-window signal. The DND code has also been made more flexible to allow applications to e.g. accept files being dropped on tabs, while still supporting tab DND. The GtkEntry completion supports a new "inline-selection" mode that is closer to what one expects in a browser location field. It allows to cycle through the possible completions inside the entry. See GtkEntryCompletion:inline-selection property. GtkEntry can also be set up to scroll a containing widget automatically if the cursor moves out of the visible area, by means of gtk_entry_set_cursor_hadjustment(). GtkTreeView has two new properties, GtkTreeView:show-expanders and GtkTreeView:level-indentation that allow to realize some treeview styles that were not possible before. _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
