Convenience Functions

Convenience Functions — Special purpose widgets and utilities

Synopsis

#include <libxfce4panel/libxfce4panel.h>

GtkWidget *         xfce_panel_create_button            (void);
GtkWidget *         xfce_panel_create_toggle_button     (void);
const gchar *       xfce_panel_get_channel_name         (void);
GdkPixbuf *         xfce_panel_pixbuf_from_source       (const gchar *source,
                                                         GtkIconTheme *icon_theme,
                                                         gint size);
#define             xfce_allow_panel_customization
#define             xfce_create_panel_button
#define             xfce_create_panel_toggle_button

Description

This section describes a number of functions that were created to help developers of Xfce Panel plugins.

Details

xfce_panel_create_button ()

GtkWidget *         xfce_panel_create_button            (void);

Create regular GtkButton with a few properties set to be useful in the Xfce panel: Flat (GTK_RELIEF_NONE), no focus on click and minimal padding.

Returns :

newly created GtkButton.

xfce_panel_create_toggle_button ()

GtkWidget *         xfce_panel_create_toggle_button     (void);

Create regular GtkToggleButton with a few properties set to be useful in Xfce panel: Flat (GTK_RELIEF_NONE), no focus on click and minimal padding.

Returns :

newly created GtkToggleButton.

xfce_panel_get_channel_name ()

const gchar *       xfce_panel_get_channel_name         (void);

Function for the name of the Xfconf channel used by the panel. By default this returns "xfce4-panel", but you can override this value with the environment variable XFCE_PANEL_CHANNEL_NAME.

Returns :

name of the Xfconf channel See also: XFCE_PANEL_CHANNEL_NAME, xfce_panel_plugin_xfconf_channel_new and xfce_panel_plugin_get_property_base

Since 4.8


xfce_panel_pixbuf_from_source ()

GdkPixbuf *         xfce_panel_pixbuf_from_source       (const gchar *source,
                                                         GtkIconTheme *icon_theme,
                                                         gint size);

Try to load a pixbug from a source string. The source could be an abolute path, an icon name or a filename that point to a file in the pixmaps directory.

This function is particularly usefull for loading names from the Icon key of desktop files.

The pixbufs is never bigger then size. If it is when loaded from the disk, the pixbuf is scales preserving the aspect ratio.

source :

string that contains the location of an icon

icon_theme :

icon theme or NULL to use the default icon theme

size :

size the icon should be loaded

Returns :

a GdkPixbuf or NULL is nothing was found. The value should be released with g_object_unref is no long used. See also: XfcePanelImage

Since 4.8


xfce_allow_panel_customization

#define xfce_allow_panel_customization  (FALSE)

Warning

xfce_allow_panel_customization has been deprecated since version 4.8 and should not be used in newly-written code. Look at xfce_panel_plugin_get_locked().

Always returns FALSE. Plugins can be locked on a plugin basis level in the future, so this function is useless.


xfce_create_panel_button

#define xfce_create_panel_button xfce_panel_create_button

Warning

xfce_create_panel_button has been deprecated since version 4.8 and should not be used in newly-written code. Use xfce_panel_create_button() instead.

See xfce_panel_create_button() for more information.


xfce_create_panel_toggle_button

#define xfce_create_panel_toggle_button xfce_panel_create_toggle_button

Warning

xfce_create_panel_toggle_button has been deprecated since version 4.8 and should not be used in newly-written code. Use xfce_panel_create_toggle_button() instead.

See xfce_panel_create_toggle_button() for more information.