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GtkWidget

GtkWidget — Base class for all widgets

Functions

void (*GtkCallback) ()
GtkWidget * gtk_widget_new ()
void gtk_widget_destroy ()
gboolean gtk_widget_in_destruction ()
void gtk_widget_destroyed ()
void gtk_widget_unparent ()
void gtk_widget_show ()
void gtk_widget_show_now ()
void gtk_widget_hide ()
void gtk_widget_show_all ()
void gtk_widget_map ()
void gtk_widget_unmap ()
void gtk_widget_realize ()
void gtk_widget_unrealize ()
void gtk_widget_draw ()
void gtk_widget_queue_draw ()
void gtk_widget_queue_resize ()
void gtk_widget_queue_resize_no_redraw ()
void gtk_widget_queue_allocate ()
GdkFrameClock * gtk_widget_get_frame_clock ()
gint gtk_widget_get_scale_factor ()
gboolean (*GtkTickCallback) ()
guint gtk_widget_add_tick_callback ()
void gtk_widget_remove_tick_callback ()
void gtk_widget_size_request ()
void gtk_widget_get_child_requisition ()
void gtk_widget_size_allocate ()
void gtk_widget_size_allocate_with_baseline ()
void gtk_widget_add_accelerator ()
gboolean gtk_widget_remove_accelerator ()
void gtk_widget_set_accel_path ()
GList * gtk_widget_list_accel_closures ()
gboolean gtk_widget_can_activate_accel ()
gboolean gtk_widget_event ()
gboolean gtk_widget_activate ()
void gtk_widget_reparent ()
gboolean gtk_widget_intersect ()
gboolean gtk_widget_is_focus ()
void gtk_widget_grab_focus ()
void gtk_widget_grab_default ()
void gtk_widget_set_name ()
const gchar * gtk_widget_get_name ()
void gtk_widget_set_state ()
void gtk_widget_set_sensitive ()
void gtk_widget_set_parent ()
void gtk_widget_set_parent_window ()
GdkWindow * gtk_widget_get_parent_window ()
void gtk_widget_set_events ()
gint gtk_widget_get_events ()
void gtk_widget_add_events ()
void gtk_widget_set_device_events ()
GdkEventMask gtk_widget_get_device_events ()
void gtk_widget_add_device_events ()
void gtk_widget_set_device_enabled ()
gboolean gtk_widget_get_device_enabled ()
GtkWidget * gtk_widget_get_toplevel ()
GtkWidget * gtk_widget_get_ancestor ()
GdkVisual * gtk_widget_get_visual ()
void gtk_widget_set_visual ()
void gtk_widget_get_pointer ()
gboolean gtk_widget_is_ancestor ()
gboolean gtk_widget_translate_coordinates ()
gboolean gtk_widget_hide_on_delete ()
void gtk_widget_set_style ()
void gtk_widget_ensure_style ()
GtkStyle * gtk_widget_get_style ()
void gtk_widget_reset_rc_styles ()
GtkStyle * gtk_widget_get_default_style ()
void gtk_widget_set_direction ()
GtkTextDirection gtk_widget_get_direction ()
void gtk_widget_set_default_direction ()
GtkTextDirection gtk_widget_get_default_direction ()
void gtk_widget_shape_combine_region ()
void gtk_widget_input_shape_combine_region ()
void gtk_widget_path ()
void gtk_widget_class_path ()
gchar * gtk_widget_get_composite_name ()
void gtk_widget_override_background_color ()
void gtk_widget_override_color ()
void gtk_widget_override_font ()
void gtk_widget_override_symbolic_color ()
void gtk_widget_override_cursor ()
void gtk_widget_modify_style ()
GtkRcStyle * gtk_widget_get_modifier_style ()
void gtk_widget_modify_fg ()
void gtk_widget_modify_bg ()
void gtk_widget_modify_text ()
void gtk_widget_modify_base ()
void gtk_widget_modify_font ()
void gtk_widget_modify_cursor ()
PangoContext * gtk_widget_create_pango_context ()
PangoContext * gtk_widget_get_pango_context ()
void gtk_widget_set_font_options ()
const cairo_font_options_t * gtk_widget_get_font_options ()
void gtk_widget_set_font_map ()
PangoFontMap * gtk_widget_get_font_map ()
PangoLayout * gtk_widget_create_pango_layout ()
GdkPixbuf * gtk_widget_render_icon ()
GdkPixbuf * gtk_widget_render_icon_pixbuf ()
void gtk_widget_pop_composite_child ()
void gtk_widget_push_composite_child ()
void gtk_widget_queue_draw_area ()
void gtk_widget_queue_draw_region ()
void gtk_widget_set_app_paintable ()
void gtk_widget_set_double_buffered ()
void gtk_widget_set_redraw_on_allocate ()
void gtk_widget_set_composite_name ()
gboolean gtk_widget_mnemonic_activate ()
void gtk_widget_class_install_style_property ()
void gtk_widget_class_install_style_property_parser ()
GParamSpec * gtk_widget_class_find_style_property ()
GParamSpec ** gtk_widget_class_list_style_properties ()
cairo_region_t * gtk_widget_region_intersect ()
gint gtk_widget_send_expose ()
gboolean gtk_widget_send_focus_change ()
void gtk_widget_style_get ()
void gtk_widget_style_get_property ()
void gtk_widget_style_get_valist ()
void gtk_widget_style_attach ()
void gtk_widget_class_set_accessible_type ()
void gtk_widget_class_set_accessible_role ()
AtkObject * gtk_widget_get_accessible ()
gboolean gtk_widget_child_focus ()
void gtk_widget_child_notify ()
void gtk_widget_freeze_child_notify ()
gboolean gtk_widget_get_child_visible ()
GtkWidget * gtk_widget_get_parent ()
GtkSettings * gtk_widget_get_settings ()
GtkClipboard * gtk_widget_get_clipboard ()
GdkDisplay * gtk_widget_get_display ()
GdkWindow * gtk_widget_get_root_window ()
GdkScreen * gtk_widget_get_screen ()
gboolean gtk_widget_has_screen ()
void gtk_widget_get_size_request ()
void gtk_widget_set_child_visible ()
void gtk_widget_set_size_request ()
void gtk_widget_thaw_child_notify ()
void gtk_widget_set_no_show_all ()
gboolean gtk_widget_get_no_show_all ()
GList * gtk_widget_list_mnemonic_labels ()
void gtk_widget_add_mnemonic_label ()
void gtk_widget_remove_mnemonic_label ()
gboolean gtk_widget_is_composited ()
void gtk_widget_error_bell ()
gboolean gtk_widget_keynav_failed ()
gchar * gtk_widget_get_tooltip_markup ()
void gtk_widget_set_tooltip_markup ()
gchar * gtk_widget_get_tooltip_text ()
void gtk_widget_set_tooltip_text ()
GtkWindow * gtk_widget_get_tooltip_window ()
void gtk_widget_set_tooltip_window ()
gboolean gtk_widget_get_has_tooltip ()
void gtk_widget_set_has_tooltip ()
void gtk_widget_trigger_tooltip_query ()
GdkWindow * gtk_widget_get_window ()
void gtk_widget_register_window ()
void gtk_widget_unregister_window ()
gboolean gtk_cairo_should_draw_window ()
void gtk_cairo_transform_to_window ()
int gtk_widget_get_allocated_width ()
int gtk_widget_get_allocated_height ()
void gtk_widget_get_allocation ()
void gtk_widget_set_allocation ()
int gtk_widget_get_allocated_baseline ()
void gtk_widget_get_allocated_size ()
void gtk_widget_get_clip ()
void gtk_widget_set_clip ()
gboolean gtk_widget_get_app_paintable ()
gboolean gtk_widget_get_can_default ()
void gtk_widget_set_can_default ()
gboolean gtk_widget_get_can_focus ()
void gtk_widget_set_can_focus ()
gboolean gtk_widget_get_focus_on_click ()
void gtk_widget_set_focus_on_click ()
gboolean gtk_widget_get_double_buffered ()
gboolean gtk_widget_get_has_window ()
void gtk_widget_set_has_window ()
gboolean gtk_widget_get_sensitive ()
gboolean gtk_widget_is_sensitive ()
GtkStateType gtk_widget_get_state ()
gboolean gtk_widget_get_visible ()
gboolean gtk_widget_is_visible ()
void gtk_widget_set_visible ()
void gtk_widget_set_state_flags ()
void gtk_widget_unset_state_flags ()
GtkStateFlags gtk_widget_get_state_flags ()
gboolean gtk_widget_has_default ()
gboolean gtk_widget_has_focus ()
gboolean gtk_widget_has_visible_focus ()
gboolean gtk_widget_has_grab ()
gboolean gtk_widget_has_rc_style ()
gboolean gtk_widget_is_drawable ()
gboolean gtk_widget_is_toplevel ()
void gtk_widget_set_window ()
void gtk_widget_set_receives_default ()
gboolean gtk_widget_get_receives_default ()
void gtk_widget_set_support_multidevice ()
gboolean gtk_widget_get_support_multidevice ()
void gtk_widget_set_realized ()
gboolean gtk_widget_get_realized ()
void gtk_widget_set_mapped ()
gboolean gtk_widget_get_mapped ()
void gtk_widget_get_requisition ()
gboolean gtk_widget_device_is_shadowed ()
GdkModifierType gtk_widget_get_modifier_mask ()
void gtk_widget_insert_action_group ()
double gtk_widget_get_opacity ()
void gtk_widget_set_opacity ()
const gchar ** gtk_widget_list_action_prefixes ()
GActionGroup * gtk_widget_get_action_group ()
GtkWidgetPath * gtk_widget_get_path ()
GtkStyleContext * gtk_widget_get_style_context ()
void gtk_widget_reset_style ()
const char * gtk_widget_class_get_css_name ()
void gtk_widget_class_set_css_name ()
GtkRequisition * gtk_requisition_new ()
GtkRequisition * gtk_requisition_copy ()
void gtk_requisition_free ()
void gtk_widget_get_preferred_height ()
void gtk_widget_get_preferred_width ()
void gtk_widget_get_preferred_height_for_width ()
void gtk_widget_get_preferred_width_for_height ()
void gtk_widget_get_preferred_height_and_baseline_for_width ()
GtkSizeRequestMode gtk_widget_get_request_mode ()
void gtk_widget_get_preferred_size ()
gint gtk_distribute_natural_allocation ()
GtkAlign gtk_widget_get_halign ()
void gtk_widget_set_halign ()
GtkAlign gtk_widget_get_valign ()
GtkAlign gtk_widget_get_valign_with_baseline ()
void gtk_widget_set_valign ()
gint gtk_widget_get_margin_left ()
void gtk_widget_set_margin_left ()
gint gtk_widget_get_margin_right ()
void gtk_widget_set_margin_right ()
gint gtk_widget_get_margin_start ()
void gtk_widget_set_margin_start ()
gint gtk_widget_get_margin_end ()
void gtk_widget_set_margin_end ()
gint gtk_widget_get_margin_top ()
void gtk_widget_set_margin_top ()
gint gtk_widget_get_margin_bottom ()
void gtk_widget_set_margin_bottom ()
gboolean gtk_widget_get_hexpand ()
void gtk_widget_set_hexpand ()
gboolean gtk_widget_get_hexpand_set ()
void gtk_widget_set_hexpand_set ()
gboolean gtk_widget_get_vexpand ()
void gtk_widget_set_vexpand ()
gboolean gtk_widget_get_vexpand_set ()
void gtk_widget_set_vexpand_set ()
void gtk_widget_queue_compute_expand ()
gboolean gtk_widget_compute_expand ()
void gtk_widget_init_template ()
void gtk_widget_class_set_template ()
void gtk_widget_class_set_template_from_resource ()
GObject * gtk_widget_get_template_child ()
#define gtk_widget_class_bind_template_child()
#define gtk_widget_class_bind_template_child_internal()
#define gtk_widget_class_bind_template_child_private()
#define gtk_widget_class_bind_template_child_internal_private()
void gtk_widget_class_bind_template_child_full ()
#define gtk_widget_class_bind_template_callback()
void gtk_widget_class_bind_template_callback_full ()
void gtk_widget_class_set_connect_func ()

Properties

gboolean app-paintable Read / Write
gboolean can-default Read / Write
gboolean can-focus Read / Write
gboolean composite-child Read
gboolean double-buffered Read / Write
GdkEventMask events Read / Write
gboolean expand Read / Write
gboolean focus-on-click Read / Write
GtkAlign halign Read / Write
gboolean has-default Read / Write
gboolean has-focus Read / Write
gboolean has-tooltip Read / Write
int height-request Read / Write
gboolean hexpand Read / Write
gboolean hexpand-set Read / Write
gboolean is-focus Read / Write
int margin Read / Write
int margin-bottom Read / Write
int margin-end Read / Write
int margin-left Read / Write
int margin-right Read / Write
int margin-start Read / Write
int margin-top Read / Write
char * name Read / Write
gboolean no-show-all Read / Write
double opacity Read / Write
GtkContainer * parent Read / Write
gboolean receives-default Read / Write
int scale-factor Read
gboolean sensitive Read / Write
GtkStyle * style Read / Write
char * tooltip-markup Read / Write
char * tooltip-text Read / Write
GtkAlign valign Read / Write
gboolean vexpand Read / Write
gboolean vexpand-set Read / Write
gboolean visible Read / Write
int width-request Read / Write
GdkWindow * window Read

Signals

void accel-closures-changed
gboolean button-press-event Run Last
gboolean button-release-event Run Last
gboolean can-activate-accel Run Last
void child-notify No Hooks
void composited-changed Action
gboolean configure-event Run Last
gboolean damage-event Run Last
gboolean delete-event Run Last
void destroy No Hooks
gboolean destroy-event Run Last
void direction-changed Run First
void drag-begin Run Last
void drag-data-delete Run Last
void drag-data-get Run Last
void drag-data-received Run Last
gboolean drag-drop Run Last
void drag-end Run Last
gboolean drag-failed Run Last
void drag-leave Run Last
gboolean drag-motion Run Last
gboolean draw Run Last
gboolean enter-notify-event Run Last
gboolean event Run Last
void event-after
gboolean focus Run Last
gboolean focus-in-event Run Last
gboolean focus-out-event Run Last
gboolean grab-broken-event Run Last
void grab-focus Action
void grab-notify Run First
void hide Run First
void hierarchy-changed Run Last
gboolean key-press-event Run Last
gboolean key-release-event Run Last
gboolean keynav-failed Run Last
gboolean leave-notify-event Run Last
void map Run First
gboolean map-event Run Last
gboolean mnemonic-activate Run Last
gboolean motion-notify-event Run Last
void move-focus Action
void parent-set Run First
gboolean popup-menu Action
gboolean property-notify-event Run Last
gboolean proximity-in-event Run Last
gboolean proximity-out-event Run Last
gboolean query-tooltip Run Last
void realize Run First
void screen-changed Run Last
gboolean scroll-event Run Last
gboolean selection-clear-event Run Last
void selection-get Run Last
gboolean selection-notify-event Run Last
void selection-received Run Last
gboolean selection-request-event Run Last
void show Run First
gboolean show-help Action
void size-allocate Run First
void state-changed Run First
void state-flags-changed Run First
void style-set Run First
void style-updated Run First
gboolean touch-event Run Last
void unmap Run First
gboolean unmap-event Run Last
void unrealize Run Last
gboolean visibility-notify-event Run Last
gboolean window-state-event Run Last

Object Hierarchy

    GBoxed
    ╰── GtkRequisition
    GObject
    ╰── GInitiallyUnowned
        ╰── GtkWidget
            ├── GtkContainer
            ├── GtkMisc
            ├── GtkCalendar
            ├── GtkCellView
            ├── GtkDrawingArea
            ├── GtkEntry
            ├── GtkGLArea
            ├── GtkRange
            ├── GtkSeparator
            ├── GtkHSV
            ├── GtkInvisible
            ├── GtkProgressBar
            ├── GtkSpinner
            ├── GtkSwitch
            ╰── GtkLevelBar

Known Derived Interfaces

GtkWidget is required by GtkActionable, GtkAppChooser, GtkCellEditable and GtkToolShell.

Implemented Interfaces

GtkWidget implements AtkImplementorIface and GtkBuildable.

Includes

#include <gtk/gtk.h>

Description

GtkWidget is the base class all widgets in GTK+ derive from. It manages the widget lifecycle, states and style.

Height-for-width Geometry Management

GTK+ uses a height-for-width (and width-for-height) geometry management system. Height-for-width means that a widget can change how much vertical space it needs, depending on the amount of horizontal space that it is given (and similar for width-for-height). The most common example is a label that reflows to fill up the available width, wraps to fewer lines, and therefore needs less height.

Height-for-width geometry management is implemented in GTK+ by way of five virtual methods:

There are some important things to keep in mind when implementing height-for-width and when using it in container implementations.

The geometry management system will query a widget hierarchy in only one orientation at a time. When widgets are initially queried for their minimum sizes it is generally done in two initial passes in the GtkSizeRequestMode chosen by the toplevel.

For example, when queried in the normal GTK_SIZE_REQUEST_HEIGHT_FOR_WIDTH mode: First, the default minimum and natural width for each widget in the interface will be computed using gtk_widget_get_preferred_width(). Because the preferred widths for each container depend on the preferred widths of their children, this information propagates up the hierarchy, and finally a minimum and natural width is determined for the entire toplevel. Next, the toplevel will use the minimum width to query for the minimum height contextual to that width using gtk_widget_get_preferred_height_for_width(), which will also be a highly recursive operation. The minimum height for the minimum width is normally used to set the minimum size constraint on the toplevel (unless gtk_window_set_geometry_hints() is explicitly used instead).

After the toplevel window has initially requested its size in both dimensions it can go on to allocate itself a reasonable size (or a size previously specified with gtk_window_set_default_size()). During the recursive allocation process it’s important to note that request cycles will be recursively executed while container widgets allocate their children. Each container widget, once allocated a size, will go on to first share the space in one orientation among its children and then request each child's height for its target allocated width or its width for allocated height, depending. In this way a GtkWidget will typically be requested its size a number of times before actually being allocated a size. The size a widget is finally allocated can of course differ from the size it has requested. For this reason, GtkWidget caches a small number of results to avoid re-querying for the same sizes in one allocation cycle.

See GtkContainer’s geometry management section to learn more about how height-for-width allocations are performed by container widgets.

If a widget does move content around to intelligently use up the allocated size then it must support the request in both GtkSizeRequestModes even if the widget in question only trades sizes in a single orientation.

For instance, a GtkLabel that does height-for-width word wrapping will not expect to have GtkWidgetClass.get_preferred_height() called because that call is specific to a width-for-height request. In this case the label must return the height required for its own minimum possible width. By following this rule any widget that handles height-for-width or width-for-height requests will always be allocated at least enough space to fit its own content.

Here are some examples of how a GTK_SIZE_REQUEST_HEIGHT_FOR_WIDTH widget generally deals with width-for-height requests, for GtkWidgetClass.get_preferred_height() it will do:

And in GtkWidgetClass.get_preferred_width_for_height() it will simply return the minimum and natural width:

Often a widget needs to get its own request during size request or allocation. For example, when computing height it may need to also compute width. Or when deciding how to use an allocation, the widget may need to know its natural size. In these cases, the widget should be careful to call its virtual methods directly, like this:

It will not work to use the wrapper functions, such as gtk_widget_get_preferred_width() inside your own size request implementation. These return a request adjusted by GtkSizeGroup and by the GtkWidgetClass.adjust_size_request() virtual method. If a widget used the wrappers inside its virtual method implementations, then the adjustments (such as widget margins) would be applied twice. GTK+ therefore does not allow this and will warn if you try to do it.

Of course if you are getting the size request for another widget, such as a child of a container, you must use the wrapper APIs. Otherwise, you would not properly consider widget margins, GtkSizeGroup, and so forth.

Since 3.10 GTK+ also supports baseline vertical alignment of widgets. This means that widgets are positioned such that the typographical baseline of widgets in the same row are aligned. This happens if a widget supports baselines, has a vertical alignment of GTK_ALIGN_BASELINE, and is inside a container that supports baselines and has a natural “row” that it aligns to the baseline, or a baseline assigned to it by the grandparent.

Baseline alignment support for a widget is done by the GtkWidgetClass.get_preferred_height_and_baseline_for_width() virtual function. It allows you to report a baseline in combination with the minimum and natural height. If there is no baseline you can return -1 to indicate this. The default implementation of this virtual function calls into the GtkWidgetClass.get_preferred_height() and GtkWidgetClass.get_preferred_height_for_width(), so if baselines are not supported it doesn’t need to be implemented.

If a widget ends up baseline aligned it will be allocated all the space in the parent as if it was GTK_ALIGN_FILL, but the selected baseline can be found via gtk_widget_get_allocated_baseline(). If this has a value other than -1 you need to align the widget such that the baseline appears at the position.

Style Properties

GtkWidget introduces “style properties” - these are basically object properties that are stored not on the object, but in the style object associated to the widget. Style properties are set in resource files. This mechanism is used for configuring such things as the location of the scrollbar arrows through the theme, giving theme authors more control over the look of applications without the need to write a theme engine in C.

Use gtk_widget_class_install_style_property() to install style properties for a widget class, gtk_widget_class_find_style_property() or gtk_widget_class_list_style_properties() to get information about existing style properties and gtk_widget_style_get_property(), gtk_widget_style_get() or gtk_widget_style_get_valist() to obtain the value of a style property.

GtkWidget as GtkBuildable

The GtkWidget implementation of the GtkBuildable interface supports a custom <accelerator> element, which has attributes named ”key”, ”modifiers” and ”signal” and allows to specify accelerators.

An example of a UI definition fragment specifying an accelerator:

In addition to accelerators, GtkWidget also support a custom <accessible> element, which supports actions and relations. Properties on the accessible implementation of an object can be set by accessing the internal child “accessible” of a GtkWidget.

An example of a UI definition fragment specifying an accessible:

Finally, GtkWidget allows style information such as style classes to be associated with widgets, using the custom <style> element:

Building composite widgets from template XML

GtkWidget exposes some facilities to automate the procedure of creating composite widgets using GtkBuilder interface description language.

To create composite widgets with GtkBuilder XML, one must associate the interface description with the widget class at class initialization time using gtk_widget_class_set_template().

The interface description semantics expected in composite template descriptions is slightly different from regular GtkBuilder XML.

Unlike regular interface descriptions, gtk_widget_class_set_template() will expect a <template> tag as a direct child of the toplevel <interface> tag. The <template> tag must specify the “class” attribute which must be the type name of the widget. Optionally, the “parent” attribute may be specified to specify the direct parent type of the widget type, this is ignored by the GtkBuilder but required for Glade to introspect what kind of properties and internal children exist for a given type when the actual type does not exist.

The XML which is contained inside the <template> tag behaves as if it were added to the <object> tag defining widget itself. You may set properties on widget by inserting <property> tags into the <template> tag, and also add <child> tags to add children and extend widget in the normal way you would with <object> tags.

Additionally, <object> tags can also be added before and after the initial <template> tag in the normal way, allowing one to define auxiliary objects which might be referenced by other widgets declared as children of the <template> tag.

An example of a GtkBuilder Template Definition:

Typically, you'll place the template fragment into a file that is bundled with your project, using GResource. In order to load the template, you need to call gtk_widget_class_set_template_from_resource() from the class initialization of your GtkWidget type:

You will also need to call gtk_widget_init_template() from the instance initialization function:

You can access widgets defined in the template using the gtk_widget_get_template_child() function, but you will typically declare a pointer in the instance private data structure of your type using the same name as the widget in the template definition, and call gtk_widget_class_bind_template_child_private() with that name, e.g.

You can also use gtk_widget_class_bind_template_callback() to connect a signal callback defined in the template with a function visible in the scope of the class, e.g.

Functions

GtkCallback ()

void
(*GtkCallback) (GtkWidget *widget,
                gpointer data);

The type of the callback functions used for e.g. iterating over the children of a container, see gtk_container_foreach().

Parameters

widget

the widget to operate on

data

user-supplied data.

[closure]

gtk_widget_new ()

GtkWidget *
gtk_widget_new (GType type,
                const gchar *first_property_name,
                ...);

This is a convenience function for creating a widget and setting its properties in one go. For example you might write: gtk_widget_new (GTK_TYPE_LABEL, "label", "Hello World", "xalign", 0.0, NULL) to create a left-aligned label. Equivalent to g_object_new(), but returns a widget so you don’t have to cast the object yourself.

Parameters

type

type ID of the widget to create

first_property_name

name of first property to set

...

value of first property, followed by more properties, NULL-terminated

Returns

a new GtkWidget of type widget_type

gtk_widget_destroy ()

void
gtk_widget_destroy (GtkWidget *widget);

Destroys a widget.

When a widget is destroyed all references it holds on other objects will be released:

  • if the widget is inside a container, it will be removed from its parent

  • if the widget is a container, all its children will be destroyed, recursively

  • if the widget is a top level, it will be removed from the list of top level widgets that GTK+ maintains internally

It's expected that all references held on the widget will also be released; you should connect to the “destroy” signal if you hold a reference to widget and you wish to remove it when this function is called. It is not necessary to do so if you are implementing a GtkContainer, as you'll be able to use the GtkContainerClass.remove() virtual function for that.

It's important to notice that gtk_widget_destroy() will only cause the widget to be finalized if no additional references, acquired using g_object_ref(), are held on it. In case additional references are in place, the widget will be in an "inert" state after calling this function; widget will still point to valid memory, allowing you to release the references you hold, but you may not query the widget's own state.

You should typically call this function on top level widgets, and rarely on child widgets.

See also: gtk_container_remove()

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

gtk_widget_in_destruction ()

gboolean
gtk_widget_in_destruction (GtkWidget *widget);

Returns whether the widget is currently being destroyed. This information can sometimes be used to avoid doing unnecessary work.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

Returns

TRUE if widget is being destroyed

gtk_widget_destroyed ()

void
gtk_widget_destroyed (GtkWidget *widget,
                      GtkWidget **widget_pointer);

This function sets *widget_pointer to NULL if widget_pointer != NULL. It’s intended to be used as a callback connected to the “destroy” signal of a widget. You connect gtk_widget_destroyed() as a signal handler, and pass the address of your widget variable as user data. Then when the widget is destroyed, the variable will be set to NULL. Useful for example to avoid multiple copies of the same dialog.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

widget_pointer

address of a variable that contains widget .

[inout][transfer none]

gtk_widget_unparent ()

void
gtk_widget_unparent (GtkWidget *widget);

This function is only for use in widget implementations. Should be called by implementations of the remove method on GtkContainer, to dissociate a child from the container.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

gtk_widget_show ()

void
gtk_widget_show (GtkWidget *widget);

Flags a widget to be displayed. Any widget that isn’t shown will not appear on the screen. If you want to show all the widgets in a container, it’s easier to call gtk_widget_show_all() on the container, instead of individually showing the widgets.

Remember that you have to show the containers containing a widget, in addition to the widget itself, before it will appear onscreen.

When a toplevel container is shown, it is immediately realized and mapped; other shown widgets are realized and mapped when their toplevel container is realized and mapped.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

gtk_widget_show_now ()

void
gtk_widget_show_now (GtkWidget *widget);

Shows a widget. If the widget is an unmapped toplevel widget (i.e. a GtkWindow that has not yet been shown), enter the main loop and wait for the window to actually be mapped. Be careful; because the main loop is running, anything can happen during this function.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

gtk_widget_hide ()

void
gtk_widget_hide (GtkWidget *widget);

Reverses the effects of gtk_widget_show(), causing the widget to be hidden (invisible to the user).

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

gtk_widget_show_all ()

void
gtk_widget_show_all (GtkWidget *widget);

Recursively shows a widget, and any child widgets (if the widget is a container).

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

gtk_widget_map ()

void
gtk_widget_map (GtkWidget *widget);

This function is only for use in widget implementations. Causes a widget to be mapped if it isn’t already.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

gtk_widget_unmap ()

void
gtk_widget_unmap (GtkWidget *widget);

This function is only for use in widget implementations. Causes a widget to be unmapped if it’s currently mapped.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

gtk_widget_realize ()

void
gtk_widget_realize (GtkWidget *widget);

Creates the GDK (windowing system) resources associated with a widget. For example, widget->window will be created when a widget is realized. Normally realization happens implicitly; if you show a widget and all its parent containers, then the widget will be realized and mapped automatically.

Realizing a widget requires all the widget’s parent widgets to be realized; calling gtk_widget_realize() realizes the widget’s parents in addition to widget itself. If a widget is not yet inside a toplevel window when you realize it, bad things will happen.

This function is primarily used in widget implementations, and isn’t very useful otherwise. Many times when you think you might need it, a better approach is to connect to a signal that will be called after the widget is realized automatically, such as “draw”. Or simply g_signal_connect() to the “realize” signal.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

gtk_widget_unrealize ()

void
gtk_widget_unrealize (GtkWidget *widget);

This function is only useful in widget implementations. Causes a widget to be unrealized (frees all GDK resources associated with the widget, such as widget->window ).

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

gtk_widget_draw ()

void
gtk_widget_draw (GtkWidget *widget,
                 cairo_t *cr);

Draws widget to cr . The top left corner of the widget will be drawn to the currently set origin point of cr .

You should pass a cairo context as cr argument that is in an original state. Otherwise the resulting drawing is undefined. For example changing the operator using cairo_set_operator() or the line width using cairo_set_line_width() might have unwanted side effects. You may however change the context’s transform matrix - like with cairo_scale(), cairo_translate() or cairo_set_matrix() and clip region with cairo_clip() prior to calling this function. Also, it is fine to modify the context with cairo_save() and cairo_push_group() prior to calling this function.

Note that special-purpose widgets may contain special code for rendering to the screen and might appear differently on screen and when rendered using gtk_widget_draw().

Parameters

widget

the widget to draw. It must be drawable (see gtk_widget_is_drawable()) and a size must have been allocated.

cr

a cairo context to draw to

Since: 3.0

gtk_widget_queue_draw ()

void
gtk_widget_queue_draw (GtkWidget *widget);

Equivalent to calling gtk_widget_queue_draw_area() for the entire area of a widget.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

gtk_widget_queue_resize ()

void
gtk_widget_queue_resize (GtkWidget *widget);

This function is only for use in widget implementations. Flags a widget to have its size renegotiated; should be called when a widget for some reason has a new size request. For example, when you change the text in a GtkLabel, GtkLabel queues a resize to ensure there’s enough space for the new text.

Note that you cannot call gtk_widget_queue_resize() on a widget from inside its implementation of the GtkWidgetClass::size_allocate virtual method. Calls to gtk_widget_queue_resize() from inside GtkWidgetClass::size_allocate will be silently ignored.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

gtk_widget_queue_resize_no_redraw ()

void
gtk_widget_queue_resize_no_redraw (GtkWidget *widget);

This function works like gtk_widget_queue_resize(), except that the widget is not invalidated.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

Since: 2.4

gtk_widget_queue_allocate ()

void
gtk_widget_queue_allocate (GtkWidget *widget);

This function is only for use in widget implementations.

Flags the widget for a rerun of the GtkWidgetClass::size_allocate function. Use this function instead of gtk_widget_queue_resize() when the widget 's size request didn't change but it wants to reposition its contents.

An example user of this function is gtk_widget_set_halign().

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

Since: 3.20

gtk_widget_get_frame_clock ()

GdkFrameClock *
gtk_widget_get_frame_clock (GtkWidget *widget);

Obtains the frame clock for a widget. The frame clock is a global “ticker” that can be used to drive animations and repaints. The most common reason to get the frame clock is to call gdk_frame_clock_get_frame_time(), in order to get a time to use for animating. For example you might record the start of the animation with an initial value from gdk_frame_clock_get_frame_time(), and then update the animation by calling gdk_frame_clock_get_frame_time() again during each repaint.

gdk_frame_clock_request_phase() will result in a new frame on the clock, but won’t necessarily repaint any widgets. To repaint a widget, you have to use gtk_widget_queue_draw() which invalidates the widget (thus scheduling it to receive a draw on the next frame). gtk_widget_queue_draw() will also end up requesting a frame on the appropriate frame clock.

A widget’s frame clock will not change while the widget is mapped. Reparenting a widget (which implies a temporary unmap) can change the widget’s frame clock.

Unrealized widgets do not have a frame clock.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

Returns

a GdkFrameClock, or NULL if widget is unrealized.

[nullable][transfer none]

Since: 3.8

gtk_widget_get_scale_factor ()

gint
gtk_widget_get_scale_factor (GtkWidget *widget);

Retrieves the internal scale factor that maps from window coordinates to the actual device pixels. On traditional systems this is 1, on high density outputs, it can be a higher value (typically 2).

See gdk_window_get_scale_factor().

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

Returns

the scale factor for widget

Since: 3.10

GtkTickCallback ()

gboolean
(*GtkTickCallback) (GtkWidget *widget,
                    GdkFrameClock *frame_clock,
                    gpointer user_data);

Callback type for adding a function to update animations. See gtk_widget_add_tick_callback().

Parameters

widget

the widget

frame_clock

the frame clock for the widget (same as calling gtk_widget_get_frame_clock())

user_data

user data passed to gtk_widget_add_tick_callback().

Returns

G_SOURCE_CONTINUE if the tick callback should continue to be called, G_SOURCE_REMOVE if the tick callback should be removed.

Since: 3.8

gtk_widget_add_tick_callback ()

guint
gtk_widget_add_tick_callback (GtkWidget *widget,
                              GtkTickCallback callback,
                              gpointer user_data,
                              GDestroyNotify notify);

Queues an animation frame update and adds a callback to be called before each frame. Until the tick callback is removed, it will be called frequently (usually at the frame rate of the output device or as quickly as the application can be repainted, whichever is slower). For this reason, is most suitable for handling graphics that change every frame or every few frames. The tick callback does not automatically imply a relayout or repaint. If you want a repaint or relayout, and aren’t changing widget properties that would trigger that (for example, changing the text of a GtkLabel), then you will have to call gtk_widget_queue_resize() or gtk_widget_queue_draw_area() yourself.

gdk_frame_clock_get_frame_time() should generally be used for timing continuous animations and gdk_frame_timings_get_predicted_presentation_time() if you are trying to display isolated frames at particular times.

This is a more convenient alternative to connecting directly to the “update” signal of GdkFrameClock, since you don't have to worry about when a GdkFrameClock is assigned to a widget.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

callback

function to call for updating animations

user_data

data to pass to callback

notify

function to call to free user_data when the callback is removed.

Returns

an id for the connection of this callback. Remove the callback by passing it to gtk_widget_remove_tick_callback()

Since: 3.8

gtk_widget_remove_tick_callback ()

void
gtk_widget_remove_tick_callback (GtkWidget *widget,
                                 guint id);

Removes a tick callback previously registered with gtk_widget_add_tick_callback().

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

id

an id returned by gtk_widget_add_tick_callback()

Since: 3.8

gtk_widget_size_request ()

void
gtk_widget_size_request (GtkWidget *widget,
                         GtkRequisition *requisition);

gtk_widget_size_request has been deprecated since version 3.0 and should not be used in newly-written code.

Use gtk_widget_get_preferred_size() instead.

This function is typically used when implementing a GtkContainer subclass. Obtains the preferred size of a widget. The container uses this information to arrange its child widgets and decide what size allocations to give them with gtk_widget_size_allocate().

You can also call this function from an application, with some caveats. Most notably, getting a size request requires the widget to be associated with a screen, because font information may be needed. Multihead-aware applications should keep this in mind.

Also remember that the size request is not necessarily the size a widget will actually be allocated.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

requisition

a GtkRequisition to be filled in.

[out]

gtk_widget_get_child_requisition ()

void
gtk_widget_get_child_requisition (GtkWidget *widget,
                                  GtkRequisition *requisition);

gtk_widget_get_child_requisition has been deprecated since version 3.0 and should not be used in newly-written code.

Use gtk_widget_get_preferred_size() instead.

This function is only for use in widget implementations. Obtains widget->requisition , unless someone has forced a particular geometry on the widget (e.g. with gtk_widget_set_size_request()), in which case it returns that geometry instead of the widget's requisition.

This function differs from gtk_widget_size_request() in that it retrieves the last size request value from widget->requisition , while gtk_widget_size_request() actually calls the "size_request" method on widget to compute the size request and fill in widget->requisition , and only then returns widget->requisition .

Because this function does not call the “size_request” method, it can only be used when you know that widget->requisition is up-to-date, that is, gtk_widget_size_request() has been called since the last time a resize was queued. In general, only container implementations have this information; applications should use gtk_widget_size_request().

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

requisition

a GtkRequisition to be filled in.

[out]

gtk_widget_size_allocate ()

void
gtk_widget_size_allocate (GtkWidget *widget,
                          GtkAllocation *allocation);

This function is only used by GtkContainer subclasses, to assign a size and position to their child widgets.

In this function, the allocation may be adjusted. It will be forced to a 1x1 minimum size, and the adjust_size_allocation virtual method on the child will be used to adjust the allocation. Standard adjustments include removing the widget’s margins, and applying the widget’s “halign” and “valign” properties.

For baseline support in containers you need to use gtk_widget_size_allocate_with_baseline() instead.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

allocation

position and size to be allocated to widget

gtk_widget_size_allocate_with_baseline ()

void
gtk_widget_size_allocate_with_baseline
                               (GtkWidget *widget,
                                GtkAllocation *allocation,
                                gint baseline);

This function is only used by GtkContainer subclasses, to assign a size, position and (optionally) baseline to their child widgets.

In this function, the allocation and baseline may be adjusted. It will be forced to a 1x1 minimum size, and the adjust_size_allocation virtual and adjust_baseline_allocation methods on the child will be used to adjust the allocation and baseline. Standard adjustments include removing the widget's margins, and applying the widget’s “halign” and “valign” properties.

If the child widget does not have a valign of GTK_ALIGN_BASELINE the baseline argument is ignored and -1 is used instead.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

allocation

position and size to be allocated to widget

baseline

The baseline of the child, or -1

Since: 3.10

gtk_widget_add_accelerator ()

void
gtk_widget_add_accelerator (GtkWidget *widget,
                            const gchar *accel_signal,
                            GtkAccelGroup *accel_group,
                            guint accel_key,
                            GdkModifierType accel_mods,
                            GtkAccelFlags accel_flags);

Installs an accelerator for this widget in accel_group that causes accel_signal to be emitted if the accelerator is activated. The accel_group needs to be added to the widget’s toplevel via gtk_window_add_accel_group(), and the signal must be of type G_SIGNAL_ACTION. Accelerators added through this function are not user changeable during runtime. If you want to support accelerators that can be changed by the user, use gtk_accel_map_add_entry() and gtk_widget_set_accel_path() or gtk_menu_item_set_accel_path() instead.

Parameters

widget

widget to install an accelerator on

accel_signal

widget signal to emit on accelerator activation

accel_group

accel group for this widget, added to its toplevel

accel_key

GDK keyval of the accelerator

accel_mods

modifier key combination of the accelerator

accel_flags

flag accelerators, e.g. GTK_ACCEL_VISIBLE

gtk_widget_remove_accelerator ()

gboolean
gtk_widget_remove_accelerator (GtkWidget *widget,
                               GtkAccelGroup *accel_group,
                               guint accel_key,
                               GdkModifierType accel_mods);

Removes an accelerator from widget , previously installed with gtk_widget_add_accelerator().

Parameters

widget

widget to install an accelerator on

accel_group

accel group for this widget

accel_key

GDK keyval of the accelerator

accel_mods

modifier key combination of the accelerator

Returns

whether an accelerator was installed and could be removed

gtk_widget_set_accel_path ()

void
gtk_widget_set_accel_path (GtkWidget *widget,
                           const gchar *accel_path,
                           GtkAccelGroup *accel_group);

Given an accelerator group, accel_group , and an accelerator path, accel_path , sets up an accelerator in accel_group so whenever the key binding that is defined for accel_path is pressed, widget will be activated. This removes any accelerators (for any accelerator group) installed by previous calls to gtk_widget_set_accel_path(). Associating accelerators with paths allows them to be modified by the user and the modifications to be saved for future use. (See gtk_accel_map_save().)

This function is a low level function that would most likely be used by a menu creation system like GtkUIManager. If you use GtkUIManager, setting up accelerator paths will be done automatically.

Even when you you aren’t using GtkUIManager, if you only want to set up accelerators on menu items gtk_menu_item_set_accel_path() provides a somewhat more convenient interface.

Note that accel_path string will be stored in a GQuark. Therefore, if you pass a static string, you can save some memory by interning it first with g_intern_static_string().

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

accel_path

path used to look up the accelerator.

[allow-none]

accel_group

a GtkAccelGroup.

[allow-none]

gtk_widget_list_accel_closures ()

GList *
gtk_widget_list_accel_closures (GtkWidget *widget);

Lists the closures used by widget for accelerator group connections with gtk_accel_group_connect_by_path() or gtk_accel_group_connect(). The closures can be used to monitor accelerator changes on widget , by connecting to the GtkAccelGroup ::accel-changed signal of the GtkAccelGroup of a closure which can be found out with gtk_accel_group_from_accel_closure().

Parameters

widget

widget to list accelerator closures for

Returns

a newly allocated GList of closures.

[transfer container][element-type GClosure]

gtk_widget_can_activate_accel ()

gboolean
gtk_widget_can_activate_accel (GtkWidget *widget,
                               guint signal_id);

Determines whether an accelerator that activates the signal identified by signal_id can currently be activated. This is done by emitting the “can-activate-accel” signal on widget ; if the signal isn’t overridden by a handler or in a derived widget, then the default check is that the widget must be sensitive, and the widget and all its ancestors mapped.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

signal_id

the ID of a signal installed on widget

Returns

TRUE if the accelerator can be activated.

Since: 2.4

gtk_widget_event ()

gboolean
gtk_widget_event (GtkWidget *widget,
                  GdkEvent *event);

Rarely-used function. This function is used to emit the event signals on a widget (those signals should never be emitted without using this function to do so). If you want to synthesize an event though, don’t use this function; instead, use gtk_main_do_event() so the event will behave as if it were in the event queue. Don’t synthesize expose events; instead, use gdk_window_invalidate_rect() to invalidate a region of the window.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

event

a GdkEvent

Returns

return from the event signal emission (TRUE if the event was handled)

gtk_widget_activate ()

gboolean
gtk_widget_activate (GtkWidget *widget);

For widgets that can be “activated” (buttons, menu items, etc.) this function activates them. Activation is what happens when you press Enter on a widget during key navigation. If widget isn't activatable, the function returns FALSE.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget that’s activatable

Returns

TRUE if the widget was activatable

gtk_widget_reparent ()

void
gtk_widget_reparent (GtkWidget *widget,
                     GtkWidget *new_parent);

gtk_widget_reparent has been deprecated since version 3.14 and should not be used in newly-written code.

Use gtk_container_remove() and gtk_container_add().

Moves a widget from one GtkContainer to another, handling reference count issues to avoid destroying the widget.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

new_parent

a GtkContainer to move the widget into

gtk_widget_intersect ()

gboolean
gtk_widget_intersect (GtkWidget *widget,
                      const GdkRectangle *area,
                      GdkRectangle *intersection);

Computes the intersection of a widget ’s area and area , storing the intersection in intersection , and returns TRUE if there was an intersection. intersection may be NULL if you’re only interested in whether there was an intersection.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

area

a rectangle

intersection

rectangle to store intersection of widget and area .

[out caller-allocates][optional]

Returns

TRUE if there was an intersection

gtk_widget_is_focus ()

gboolean
gtk_widget_is_focus (GtkWidget *widget);

Determines if the widget is the focus widget within its toplevel. (This does not mean that the “has-focus” property is necessarily set; “has-focus” will only be set if the toplevel widget additionally has the global input focus.)

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

Returns

TRUE if the widget is the focus widget.

gtk_widget_grab_focus ()

void
gtk_widget_grab_focus (GtkWidget *widget);

Causes widget to have the keyboard focus for the GtkWindow it's inside. widget must be a focusable widget, such as a GtkEntry; something like GtkFrame won’t work.

More precisely, it must have the GTK_CAN_FOCUS flag set. Use gtk_widget_set_can_focus() to modify that flag.

The widget also needs to be realized and mapped. This is indicated by the related signals. Grabbing the focus immediately after creating the widget will likely fail and cause critical warnings.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

gtk_widget_grab_default ()

void
gtk_widget_grab_default (GtkWidget *widget);

Causes widget to become the default widget. widget must be able to be a default widget; typically you would ensure this yourself by calling gtk_widget_set_can_default() with a TRUE value. The default widget is activated when the user presses Enter in a window. Default widgets must be activatable, that is, gtk_widget_activate() should affect them. Note that GtkEntry widgets require the “activates-default” property set to TRUE before they activate the default widget when Enter is pressed and the GtkEntry is focused.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

gtk_widget_set_name ()

void
gtk_widget_set_name (GtkWidget *widget,
                     const gchar *name);

Widgets can be named, which allows you to refer to them from a CSS file. You can apply a style to widgets with a particular name in the CSS file. See the documentation for the CSS syntax (on the same page as the docs for GtkStyleContext).

Note that the CSS syntax has certain special characters to delimit and represent elements in a selector (period, #, >, *...), so using these will make your widget impossible to match by name. Any combination of alphanumeric symbols, dashes and underscores will suffice.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

name

name for the widget

gtk_widget_get_name ()

const gchar *
gtk_widget_get_name (GtkWidget *widget);

Retrieves the name of a widget. See gtk_widget_set_name() for the significance of widget names.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

Returns

name of the widget. This string is owned by GTK+ and should not be modified or freed

gtk_widget_set_state ()

void
gtk_widget_set_state (GtkWidget *widget,
                      GtkStateType state);

gtk_widget_set_state has been deprecated since version 3.0 and should not be used in newly-written code.

Use gtk_widget_set_state_flags() instead.

This function is for use in widget implementations. Sets the state of a widget (insensitive, prelighted, etc.) Usually you should set the state using wrapper functions such as gtk_widget_set_sensitive().

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

state

new state for widget

gtk_widget_set_sensitive ()

void
gtk_widget_set_sensitive (GtkWidget *widget,
                          gboolean sensitive);

Sets the sensitivity of a widget. A widget is sensitive if the user can interact with it. Insensitive widgets are “grayed out” and the user can’t interact with them. Insensitive widgets are known as “inactive”, “disabled”, or “ghosted” in some other toolkits.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

sensitive

TRUE to make the widget sensitive

gtk_widget_set_parent ()

void
gtk_widget_set_parent (GtkWidget *widget,
                       GtkWidget *parent);

This function is useful only when implementing subclasses of GtkContainer. Sets the container as the parent of widget , and takes care of some details such as updating the state and style of the child to reflect its new location. The opposite function is gtk_widget_unparent().

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

parent

parent container

gtk_widget_set_parent_window ()

void
gtk_widget_set_parent_window (GtkWidget *widget,
                              GdkWindow *parent_window);

Sets a non default parent window for widget .

For GtkWindow classes, setting a parent_window effects whether the window is a toplevel window or can be embedded into other widgets.

For GtkWindow classes, this needs to be called before the window is realized.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget.

parent_window

the new parent window.

gtk_widget_get_parent_window ()

GdkWindow *
gtk_widget_get_parent_window (GtkWidget *widget);

Gets widget ’s parent window, or NULL if it does not have one.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget.

Returns

the parent window of widget , or NULL if it does not have a parent window.

[transfer none][nullable]

gtk_widget_set_events ()

void
gtk_widget_set_events (GtkWidget *widget,
                       gint events);

Sets the event mask (see GdkEventMask) for a widget. The event mask determines which events a widget will receive. Keep in mind that different widgets have different default event masks, and by changing the event mask you may disrupt a widget’s functionality, so be careful. This function must be called while a widget is unrealized. Consider gtk_widget_add_events() for widgets that are already realized, or if you want to preserve the existing event mask. This function can’t be used with widgets that have no window. (See gtk_widget_get_has_window()). To get events on those widgets, place them inside a GtkEventBox and receive events on the event box.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

events

event mask

gtk_widget_get_events ()

gint
gtk_widget_get_events (GtkWidget *widget);

Returns the event mask (see GdkEventMask) for the widget. These are the events that the widget will receive.

Note: Internally, the widget event mask will be the logical OR of the event mask set through gtk_widget_set_events() or gtk_widget_add_events(), and the event mask necessary to cater for every GtkEventController created for the widget.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

Returns

event mask for widget

gtk_widget_add_events ()

void
gtk_widget_add_events (GtkWidget *widget,
                       gint events);

Adds the events in the bitfield events to the event mask for widget . See gtk_widget_set_events() and the input handling overview for details.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

events

an event mask, see GdkEventMask

gtk_widget_set_device_events ()

void
gtk_widget_set_device_events (GtkWidget *widget,
                              GdkDevice *device,
                              GdkEventMask events);

Sets the device event mask (see GdkEventMask) for a widget. The event mask determines which events a widget will receive from device . Keep in mind that different widgets have different default event masks, and by changing the event mask you may disrupt a widget’s functionality, so be careful. This function must be called while a widget is unrealized. Consider gtk_widget_add_device_events() for widgets that are already realized, or if you want to preserve the existing event mask. This function can’t be used with windowless widgets (which return FALSE from gtk_widget_get_has_window()); to get events on those widgets, place them inside a GtkEventBox and receive events on the event box.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

device

a GdkDevice

events

event mask

Since: 3.0

gtk_widget_get_device_events ()

GdkEventMask
gtk_widget_get_device_events (GtkWidget *widget,
                              GdkDevice *device);

Returns the events mask for the widget corresponding to an specific device. These are the events that the widget will receive when device operates on it.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

device

a GdkDevice

Returns

device event mask for widget

Since: 3.0

gtk_widget_add_device_events ()

void
gtk_widget_add_device_events (GtkWidget *widget,
                              GdkDevice *device,
                              GdkEventMask events);

Adds the device events in the bitfield events to the event mask for widget . See gtk_widget_set_device_events() for details.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

device

a GdkDevice

events

an event mask, see GdkEventMask

Since: 3.0

gtk_widget_set_device_enabled ()

void
gtk_widget_set_device_enabled (GtkWidget *widget,
                               GdkDevice *device,
                               gboolean enabled);

Enables or disables a GdkDevice to interact with widget and all its children.

It does so by descending through the GdkWindow hierarchy and enabling the same mask that is has for core events (i.e. the one that gdk_window_get_events() returns).

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

device

a GdkDevice

enabled

whether to enable the device

Since: 3.0

gtk_widget_get_device_enabled ()

gboolean
gtk_widget_get_device_enabled (GtkWidget *widget,
                               GdkDevice *device);

Returns whether device can interact with widget and its children. See gtk_widget_set_device_enabled().

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

device

a GdkDevice

Returns

TRUE is device is enabled for widget

Since: 3.0

gtk_widget_get_toplevel ()

GtkWidget *
gtk_widget_get_toplevel (GtkWidget *widget);

This function returns the topmost widget in the container hierarchy widget is a part of. If widget has no parent widgets, it will be returned as the topmost widget. No reference will be added to the returned widget; it should not be unreferenced.

Note the difference in behavior vs. gtk_widget_get_ancestor(); gtk_widget_get_ancestor (widget, GTK_TYPE_WINDOW) would return NULL if widget wasn’t inside a toplevel window, and if the window was inside a GtkWindow-derived widget which was in turn inside the toplevel GtkWindow. While the second case may seem unlikely, it actually happens when a GtkPlug is embedded inside a GtkSocket within the same application.

To reliably find the toplevel GtkWindow, use gtk_widget_get_toplevel() and call GTK_IS_WINDOW() on the result. For instance, to get the title of a widget's toplevel window, one might use:

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

Returns

the topmost ancestor of widget , or widget itself if there’s no ancestor.

[transfer none]

gtk_widget_get_ancestor ()

GtkWidget *
gtk_widget_get_ancestor (GtkWidget *widget,
                         GType widget_type);

Gets the first ancestor of widget with type widget_type . For example, gtk_widget_get_ancestor (widget, GTK_TYPE_BOX) gets the first GtkBox that’s an ancestor of widget . No reference will be added to the returned widget; it should not be unreferenced. See note about checking for a toplevel GtkWindow in the docs for gtk_widget_get_toplevel().

Note that unlike gtk_widget_is_ancestor(), gtk_widget_get_ancestor() considers widget to be an ancestor of itself.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

widget_type

ancestor type

Returns

the ancestor widget, or NULL if not found.

[transfer none][nullable]

gtk_widget_get_visual ()

GdkVisual *
gtk_widget_get_visual (GtkWidget *widget);

Gets the visual that will be used to render widget .

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

Returns

the visual for widget .

[transfer none]

gtk_widget_set_visual ()

void
gtk_widget_set_visual (GtkWidget *widget,
                       GdkVisual *visual);

Sets the visual that should be used for by widget and its children for creating GdkWindows. The visual must be on the same GdkScreen as returned by gtk_widget_get_screen(), so handling the “screen-changed” signal is necessary.

Setting a new visual will not cause widget to recreate its windows, so you should call this function before widget is realized.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

visual

visual to be used or NULL to unset a previous one.

[allow-none]

gtk_widget_get_pointer ()

void
gtk_widget_get_pointer (GtkWidget *widget,
                        gint *x,
                        gint *y);

gtk_widget_get_pointer has been deprecated since version 3.4 and should not be used in newly-written code.

Use gdk_window_get_device_position() instead.

Obtains the location of the mouse pointer in widget coordinates. Widget coordinates are a bit odd; for historical reasons, they are defined as widget->window coordinates for widgets that return TRUE for gtk_widget_get_has_window(); and are relative to widget->allocation.x , widget->allocation.y otherwise.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

x

return location for the X coordinate, or NULL.

[out][allow-none]

y

return location for the Y coordinate, or NULL.

[out][allow-none]

gtk_widget_is_ancestor ()

gboolean
gtk_widget_is_ancestor (GtkWidget *widget,
                        GtkWidget *ancestor);

Determines whether widget is somewhere inside ancestor , possibly with intermediate containers.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

ancestor

another GtkWidget

Returns

TRUE if ancestor contains widget as a child, grandchild, great grandchild, etc.

gtk_widget_translate_coordinates ()

gboolean
gtk_widget_translate_coordinates (GtkWidget *src_widget,
                                  GtkWidget *dest_widget,
                                  gint src_x,
                                  gint src_y,
                                  gint *dest_x,
                                  gint *dest_y);

Translate coordinates relative to src_widget ’s allocation to coordinates relative to dest_widget ’s allocations. In order to perform this operation, both widgets must be realized, and must share a common toplevel.

Parameters

src_widget

a GtkWidget

dest_widget

a GtkWidget

src_x

X position relative to src_widget

src_y

Y position relative to src_widget

dest_x

location to store X position relative to dest_widget .

[out][optional]

dest_y

location to store Y position relative to dest_widget .

[out][optional]

Returns

FALSE if either widget was not realized, or there was no common ancestor. In this case, nothing is stored in *dest_x and *dest_y . Otherwise TRUE.

gtk_widget_hide_on_delete ()

gboolean
gtk_widget_hide_on_delete (GtkWidget *widget);

Utility function; intended to be connected to the “delete-event” signal on a GtkWindow. The function calls gtk_widget_hide() on its argument, then returns TRUE. If connected to ::delete-event, the result is that clicking the close button for a window (on the window frame, top right corner usually) will hide but not destroy the window. By default, GTK+ destroys windows when ::delete-event is received.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

Returns

TRUE

gtk_widget_set_style ()

void
gtk_widget_set_style (GtkWidget *widget,
                      GtkStyle *style);

gtk_widget_set_style has been deprecated since version 3.0 and should not be used in newly-written code.

Use GtkStyleContext instead

Used to set the GtkStyle for a widget (widget->style ). Since GTK 3, this function does nothing, the passed in style is ignored.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

style

a GtkStyle, or NULL to remove the effect of a previous call to gtk_widget_set_style() and go back to the default style.

[allow-none]

gtk_widget_ensure_style ()

void
gtk_widget_ensure_style (GtkWidget *widget);

gtk_widget_ensure_style has been deprecated since version 3.0 and should not be used in newly-written code.

Use GtkStyleContext instead

Ensures that widget has a style (widget->style ).

Not a very useful function; most of the time, if you want the style, the widget is realized, and realized widgets are guaranteed to have a style already.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

gtk_widget_get_style ()

GtkStyle *
gtk_widget_get_style (GtkWidget *widget);

gtk_widget_get_style has been deprecated since version 3.0 and should not be used in newly-written code.

Use GtkStyleContext instead

Simply an accessor function that returns widget->style .

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

Returns

the widget’s GtkStyle.

[transfer none]

gtk_widget_reset_rc_styles ()

void
gtk_widget_reset_rc_styles (GtkWidget *widget);

gtk_widget_reset_rc_styles has been deprecated since version 3.0 and should not be used in newly-written code.

Use GtkStyleContext instead, and gtk_widget_reset_style()

Reset the styles of widget and all descendents, so when they are looked up again, they get the correct values for the currently loaded RC file settings.

This function is not useful for applications.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget.

gtk_widget_get_default_style ()

GtkStyle *
gtk_widget_get_default_style (void);

gtk_widget_get_default_style has been deprecated since version 3.0 and should not be used in newly-written code.

Use GtkStyleContext instead, and gtk_css_provider_get_default() to obtain a GtkStyleProvider with the default widget style information.

Returns the default style used by all widgets initially.

Returns

the default style. This GtkStyle object is owned by GTK+ and should not be modified or freed.

[transfer none]

gtk_widget_set_direction ()

void
gtk_widget_set_direction (GtkWidget *widget,
                          GtkTextDirection dir);

Sets the reading direction on a particular widget. This direction controls the primary direction for widgets containing text, and also the direction in which the children of a container are packed. The ability to set the direction is present in order so that correct localization into languages with right-to-left reading directions can be done. Generally, applications will let the default reading direction present, except for containers where the containers are arranged in an order that is explicitly visual rather than logical (such as buttons for text justification).

If the direction is set to GTK_TEXT_DIR_NONE, then the value set by gtk_widget_set_default_direction() will be used.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

dir

the new direction

gtk_widget_get_direction ()

GtkTextDirection
gtk_widget_get_direction (GtkWidget *widget);

Gets the reading direction for a particular widget. See gtk_widget_set_direction().

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

Returns

the reading direction for the widget.

gtk_widget_set_default_direction ()

void
gtk_widget_set_default_direction (GtkTextDirection dir);

Sets the default reading direction for widgets where the direction has not been explicitly set by gtk_widget_set_direction().

Parameters

dir

the new default direction. This cannot be GTK_TEXT_DIR_NONE.

gtk_widget_get_default_direction ()

GtkTextDirection
gtk_widget_get_default_direction (void);

Obtains the current default reading direction. See gtk_widget_set_default_direction().

Returns

the current default direction.

gtk_widget_shape_combine_region ()

void
gtk_widget_shape_combine_region (GtkWidget *widget,
                                 cairo_region_t *region);

Sets a shape for this widget’s GDK window. This allows for transparent windows etc., see gdk_window_shape_combine_region() for more information.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

region

shape to be added, or NULL to remove an existing shape.

[allow-none]

Since: 3.0

gtk_widget_input_shape_combine_region ()

void
gtk_widget_input_shape_combine_region (GtkWidget *widget,
                                       cairo_region_t *region);

Sets an input shape for this widget’s GDK window. This allows for windows which react to mouse click in a nonrectangular region, see gdk_window_input_shape_combine_region() for more information.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

region

shape to be added, or NULL to remove an existing shape.

[allow-none]

Since: 3.0

gtk_widget_path ()

void
gtk_widget_path (GtkWidget *widget,
                 guint *path_length,
                 gchar **path,
                 gchar **path_reversed);

gtk_widget_path has been deprecated since version 3.0 and should not be used in newly-written code.

Use gtk_widget_get_path() instead

Obtains the full path to widget . The path is simply the name of a widget and all its parents in the container hierarchy, separated by periods. The name of a widget comes from gtk_widget_get_name(). Paths are used to apply styles to a widget in gtkrc configuration files. Widget names are the type of the widget by default (e.g. “GtkButton”) or can be set to an application-specific value with gtk_widget_set_name(). By setting the name of a widget, you allow users or theme authors to apply styles to that specific widget in their gtkrc file. path_reversed_p fills in the path in reverse order, i.e. starting with widget ’s name instead of starting with the name of widget ’s outermost ancestor.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

path_length

location to store length of the path, or NULL.

[out][allow-none]

path

location to store allocated path string, or NULL.

[out][allow-none]

path_reversed

location to store allocated reverse path string, or NULL.

[out][allow-none]

gtk_widget_class_path ()

void
gtk_widget_class_path (GtkWidget *widget,
                       guint *path_length,
                       gchar **path,
                       gchar **path_reversed);

gtk_widget_class_path has been deprecated since version 3.0 and should not be used in newly-written code.

Use gtk_widget_get_path() instead

Same as gtk_widget_path(), but always uses the name of a widget’s type, never uses a custom name set with gtk_widget_set_name().

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

path_length

location to store the length of the class path, or NULL.

[out][optional]

path

location to store the class path as an allocated string, or NULL.

[out][optional]

path_reversed

location to store the reverse class path as an allocated string, or NULL.

[out][optional]

gtk_widget_get_composite_name ()

gchar *
gtk_widget_get_composite_name (GtkWidget *widget);

gtk_widget_get_composite_name has been deprecated since version 3.10 and should not be used in newly-written code.

Use gtk_widget_class_set_template(), or don’t use this API at all.

Obtains the composite name of a widget.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

Returns

the composite name of widget , or NULL if widget is not a composite child. The string should be freed when it is no longer needed.

gtk_widget_override_background_color ()

void
gtk_widget_override_background_color (GtkWidget *widget,
                                      GtkStateFlags state,
                                      const GdkRGBA *color);

gtk_widget_override_background_color has been deprecated since version 3.16 and should not be used in newly-written code.

This function is not useful in the context of CSS-based rendering. If you wish to change the way a widget renders its background you should use a custom CSS style, through an application-specific GtkStyleProvider and a CSS style class. You can also override the default drawing of a widget through the “draw” signal, and use Cairo to draw a specific color, regardless of the CSS style.

Sets the background color to use for a widget.

All other style values are left untouched. See gtk_widget_override_color().

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

state

the state for which to set the background color

color

the color to assign, or NULL to undo the effect of previous calls to gtk_widget_override_background_color().

[allow-none]

Since: 3.0

gtk_widget_override_color ()

void
gtk_widget_override_color (GtkWidget *widget,
                           GtkStateFlags state,
                           const GdkRGBA *color);

gtk_widget_override_color has been deprecated since version 3.16 and should not be used in newly-written code.

Use a custom style provider and style classes instead

Sets the color to use for a widget.

All other style values are left untouched.

This function does not act recursively. Setting the color of a container does not affect its children. Note that some widgets that you may not think of as containers, for instance GtkButtons, are actually containers.

This API is mostly meant as a quick way for applications to change a widget appearance. If you are developing a widgets library and intend this change to be themeable, it is better done by setting meaningful CSS classes in your widget/container implementation through gtk_style_context_add_class().

This way, your widget library can install a GtkCssProvider with the GTK_STYLE_PROVIDER_PRIORITY_FALLBACK priority in order to provide a default styling for those widgets that need so, and this theming may fully overridden by the user’s theme.

Note that for complex widgets this may bring in undesired results (such as uniform background color everywhere), in these cases it is better to fully style such widgets through a GtkCssProvider with the GTK_STYLE_PROVIDER_PRIORITY_APPLICATION priority.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

state

the state for which to set the color

color

the color to assign, or NULL to undo the effect of previous calls to gtk_widget_override_color().

[allow-none]

Since: 3.0

gtk_widget_override_font ()

void
gtk_widget_override_font (GtkWidget *widget,
                          const PangoFontDescription *font_desc);

gtk_widget_override_font has been deprecated since version 3.16 and should not be used in newly-written code.

This function is not useful in the context of CSS-based rendering. If you wish to change the font a widget uses to render its text you should use a custom CSS style, through an application-specific GtkStyleProvider and a CSS style class.

Sets the font to use for a widget. All other style values are left untouched. See gtk_widget_override_color().

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

font_desc

the font description to use, or NULL to undo the effect of previous calls to gtk_widget_override_font().

[allow-none]

Since: 3.0

gtk_widget_override_symbolic_color ()

void
gtk_widget_override_symbolic_color (GtkWidget *widget,
                                    const gchar *name,
                                    const GdkRGBA *color);

gtk_widget_override_symbolic_color has been deprecated since version 3.16 and should not be used in newly-written code.

This function is not useful in the context of CSS-based rendering. If you wish to change the color used to render symbolic icons you should use a custom CSS style, through an application-specific GtkStyleProvider and a CSS style class.

Sets a symbolic color for a widget.

All other style values are left untouched. See gtk_widget_override_color() for overriding the foreground or background color.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

name

the name of the symbolic color to modify

color

the color to assign (does not need to be allocated), or NULL to undo the effect of previous calls to gtk_widget_override_symbolic_color().

[allow-none]

Since: 3.0

gtk_widget_override_cursor ()

void
gtk_widget_override_cursor (GtkWidget *widget,
                            const GdkRGBA *cursor,
                            const GdkRGBA *secondary_cursor);

gtk_widget_override_cursor has been deprecated since version 3.16 and should not be used in newly-written code.

This function is not useful in the context of CSS-based rendering. If you wish to change the color used to render the primary and secondary cursors you should use a custom CSS style, through an application-specific GtkStyleProvider and a CSS style class.

Sets the cursor color to use in a widget, overriding the cursor-color and secondary-cursor-color style properties. All other style values are left untouched. See also gtk_widget_modify_style().

Note that the underlying properties have the GdkColor type, so the alpha value in primary and secondary will be ignored.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

cursor

the color to use for primary cursor (does not need to be allocated), or NULL to undo the effect of previous calls to of gtk_widget_override_cursor().

[allow-none]

secondary_cursor

the color to use for secondary cursor (does not need to be allocated), or NULL to undo the effect of previous calls to of gtk_widget_override_cursor().

[allow-none]

Since: 3.0

gtk_widget_modify_style ()

void
gtk_widget_modify_style (GtkWidget *widget,
                         GtkRcStyle *style);

gtk_widget_modify_style has been deprecated since version 3.0 and should not be used in newly-written code.

Use GtkStyleContext with a custom GtkStyleProvider instead

Modifies style values on the widget.

Modifications made using this technique take precedence over style values set via an RC file, however, they will be overridden if a style is explicitly set on the widget using gtk_widget_set_style(). The GtkRcStyle is designed so each field can either be set or unset, so it is possible, using this function, to modify some style values and leave the others unchanged.

Note that modifications made with this function are not cumulative with previous calls to gtk_widget_modify_style() or with such functions as gtk_widget_modify_fg(). If you wish to retain previous values, you must first call gtk_widget_get_modifier_style(), make your modifications to the returned style, then call gtk_widget_modify_style() with that style. On the other hand, if you first call gtk_widget_modify_style(), subsequent calls to such functions gtk_widget_modify_fg() will have a cumulative effect with the initial modifications.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

style

the GtkRcStyle holding the style modifications

gtk_widget_get_modifier_style ()

GtkRcStyle *
gtk_widget_get_modifier_style (GtkWidget *widget);

gtk_widget_get_modifier_style has been deprecated since version 3.0 and should not be used in newly-written code.

Use GtkStyleContext with a custom GtkStyleProvider instead

Returns the current modifier style for the widget. (As set by gtk_widget_modify_style().) If no style has previously set, a new GtkRcStyle will be created with all values unset, and set as the modifier style for the widget. If you make changes to this rc style, you must call gtk_widget_modify_style(), passing in the returned rc style, to make sure that your changes take effect.

Caution: passing the style back to gtk_widget_modify_style() will normally end up destroying it, because gtk_widget_modify_style() copies the passed-in style and sets the copy as the new modifier style, thus dropping any reference to the old modifier style. Add a reference to the modifier style if you want to keep it alive.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

Returns

the modifier style for the widget. This rc style is owned by the widget. If you want to keep a pointer to value this around, you must add a refcount using g_object_ref().

[transfer none]

gtk_widget_modify_fg ()

void
gtk_widget_modify_fg (GtkWidget *widget,
                      GtkStateType state,
                      const GdkColor *color);

gtk_widget_modify_fg has been deprecated since version 3.0 and should not be used in newly-written code.

Use gtk_widget_override_color() instead

Sets the foreground color for a widget in a particular state.

All other style values are left untouched. See also gtk_widget_modify_style().

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

state

the state for which to set the foreground color

color

the color to assign (does not need to be allocated), or NULL to undo the effect of previous calls to of gtk_widget_modify_fg().

[allow-none]

gtk_widget_modify_bg ()

void
gtk_widget_modify_bg (GtkWidget *widget,
                      GtkStateType state,
                      const GdkColor *color);

gtk_widget_modify_bg has been deprecated since version 3.0 and should not be used in newly-written code.

Use gtk_widget_override_background_color() instead

Sets the background color for a widget in a particular state.

All other style values are left untouched. See also gtk_widget_modify_style().

Note that “no window” widgets (which have the GTK_NO_WINDOW flag set) draw on their parent container’s window and thus may not draw any background themselves. This is the case for e.g. GtkLabel.

To modify the background of such widgets, you have to set the background color on their parent; if you want to set the background of a rectangular area around a label, try placing the label in a GtkEventBox widget and setting the background color on that.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

state

the state for which to set the background color

color

the color to assign (does not need to be allocated), or NULL to undo the effect of previous calls to of gtk_widget_modify_bg().

[allow-none]

gtk_widget_modify_text ()

void
gtk_widget_modify_text (GtkWidget *widget,
                        GtkStateType state,
                        const GdkColor *color);

gtk_widget_modify_text has been deprecated since version 3.0 and should not be used in newly-written code.

Use gtk_widget_override_color() instead

Sets the text color for a widget in a particular state.

All other style values are left untouched. The text color is the foreground color used along with the base color (see gtk_widget_modify_base()) for widgets such as GtkEntry and GtkTextView. See also gtk_widget_modify_style().

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

state

the state for which to set the text color

color

the color to assign (does not need to be allocated), or NULL to undo the effect of previous calls to of gtk_widget_modify_text().

[allow-none]

gtk_widget_modify_base ()

void
gtk_widget_modify_base (GtkWidget *widget,
                        GtkStateType state,
                        const GdkColor *color);

gtk_widget_modify_base has been deprecated since version 3.0 and should not be used in newly-written code.

Use gtk_widget_override_background_color() instead

Sets the base color for a widget in a particular state. All other style values are left untouched. The base color is the background color used along with the text color (see gtk_widget_modify_text()) for widgets such as GtkEntry and GtkTextView. See also gtk_widget_modify_style().

Note that “no window” widgets (which have the GTK_NO_WINDOW flag set) draw on their parent container’s window and thus may not draw any background themselves. This is the case for e.g. GtkLabel.

To modify the background of such widgets, you have to set the base color on their parent; if you want to set the background of a rectangular area around a label, try placing the label in a GtkEventBox widget and setting the base color on that.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

state

the state for which to set the base color

color

the color to assign (does not need to be allocated), or NULL to undo the effect of previous calls to of gtk_widget_modify_base().

[allow-none]

gtk_widget_modify_font ()

void
gtk_widget_modify_font (GtkWidget *widget,
                        PangoFontDescription *font_desc);

gtk_widget_modify_font has been deprecated since version 3.0 and should not be used in newly-written code.

Use gtk_widget_override_font() instead

Sets the font to use for a widget.

All other style values are left untouched. See also gtk_widget_modify_style().

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

font_desc

the font description to use, or NULL to undo the effect of previous calls to gtk_widget_modify_font().

[allow-none]

gtk_widget_modify_cursor ()

void
gtk_widget_modify_cursor (GtkWidget *widget,
                          const GdkColor *primary,
                          const GdkColor *secondary);

gtk_widget_modify_cursor has been deprecated since version 3.0 and should not be used in newly-written code.

Use gtk_widget_override_cursor() instead.

Sets the cursor color to use in a widget, overriding the GtkWidget cursor-color and secondary-cursor-color style properties.

All other style values are left untouched. See also gtk_widget_modify_style().

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

primary

the color to use for primary cursor (does not need to be allocated), or NULL to undo the effect of previous calls to of gtk_widget_modify_cursor().

[nullable]

secondary

the color to use for secondary cursor (does not need to be allocated), or NULL to undo the effect of previous calls to of gtk_widget_modify_cursor().

[nullable]

Since: 2.12

gtk_widget_create_pango_context ()

PangoContext *
gtk_widget_create_pango_context (GtkWidget *widget);

Creates a new PangoContext with the appropriate font map, font options, font description, and base direction for drawing text for this widget. See also gtk_widget_get_pango_context().

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

Returns

the new PangoContext.

[transfer full]

gtk_widget_get_pango_context ()

PangoContext *
gtk_widget_get_pango_context (GtkWidget *widget);

Gets a PangoContext with the appropriate font map, font description, and base direction for this widget. Unlike the context returned by gtk_widget_create_pango_context(), this context is owned by the widget (it can be used until the screen for the widget changes or the widget is removed from its toplevel), and will be updated to match any changes to the widget’s attributes. This can be tracked by using the “screen-changed” signal on the widget.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

Returns

the PangoContext for the widget.

[transfer none]

gtk_widget_set_font_options ()

void
gtk_widget_set_font_options (GtkWidget *widget,
                             const cairo_font_options_t *options);

Sets the cairo_font_options_t used for Pango rendering in this widget. When not set, the default font options for the GdkScreen will be used.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

options

a cairo_font_options_t, or NULL to unset any previously set default font options.

[allow-none]

Since: 3.18

gtk_widget_get_font_options ()

const cairo_font_options_t *
gtk_widget_get_font_options (GtkWidget *widget);

Returns the cairo_font_options_t used for Pango rendering. When not set, the defaults font options for the GdkScreen will be used.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

Returns

the cairo_font_options_t or NULL if not set.

[transfer none][nullable]

Since: 3.18

gtk_widget_set_font_map ()

void
gtk_widget_set_font_map (GtkWidget *widget,
                         PangoFontMap *font_map);

Sets the font map to use for Pango rendering. When not set, the widget will inherit the font map from its parent.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

font_map

a PangoFontMap, or NULL to unset any previously set font map.

[allow-none]

Since: 3.18

gtk_widget_get_font_map ()

PangoFontMap *
gtk_widget_get_font_map (GtkWidget *widget);

Gets the font map that has been set with gtk_widget_set_font_map().

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

Returns

A PangoFontMap, or NULL.

[transfer none][nullable]

Since: 3.18

gtk_widget_create_pango_layout ()

PangoLayout *
gtk_widget_create_pango_layout (GtkWidget *widget,
                                const gchar *text);

Creates a new PangoLayout with the appropriate font map, font description, and base direction for drawing text for this widget.

If you keep a PangoLayout created in this way around, you need to re-create it when the widget PangoContext is replaced. This can be tracked by using the “screen-changed” signal on the widget.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

text

text to set on the layout (can be NULL).

[nullable]

Returns

the new PangoLayout.

[transfer full]

gtk_widget_render_icon ()

GdkPixbuf *
gtk_widget_render_icon (GtkWidget *widget,
                        const gchar *stock_id,
                        GtkIconSize size,
                        const gchar *detail);

gtk_widget_render_icon has been deprecated since version 3.0 and should not be used in newly-written code.

Use gtk_widget_render_icon_pixbuf() instead.

A convenience function that uses the theme settings for widget to look up stock_id and render it to a pixbuf. stock_id should be a stock icon ID such as GTK_STOCK_OPEN or GTK_STOCK_OK. size should be a size such as GTK_ICON_SIZE_MENU. detail should be a string that identifies the widget or code doing the rendering, so that theme engines can special-case rendering for that widget or code.

The pixels in the returned GdkPixbuf are shared with the rest of the application and should not be modified. The pixbuf should be freed after use with g_object_unref().

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

stock_id

a stock ID

size

a stock size (GtkIconSize). A size of (GtkIconSize)-1 means render at the size of the source and don’t scale (if there are multiple source sizes, GTK+ picks one of the available sizes).

[type int]

detail

render detail to pass to theme engine.

[allow-none]

Returns

a new pixbuf, or NULL if the stock ID wasn’t known.

[nullable][transfer full]

gtk_widget_render_icon_pixbuf ()

GdkPixbuf *
gtk_widget_render_icon_pixbuf (GtkWidget *widget,
                               const gchar *stock_id,
                               GtkIconSize size);

gtk_widget_render_icon_pixbuf has been deprecated since version 3.10 and should not be used in newly-written code.

Use gtk_icon_theme_load_icon() instead.

A convenience function that uses the theme engine and style settings for widget to look up stock_id and render it to a pixbuf. stock_id should be a stock icon ID such as GTK_STOCK_OPEN or GTK_STOCK_OK. size should be a size such as GTK_ICON_SIZE_MENU.

The pixels in the returned GdkPixbuf are shared with the rest of the application and should not be modified. The pixbuf should be freed after use with g_object_unref().

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

stock_id

a stock ID

size

a stock size (GtkIconSize). A size of (GtkIconSize)-1 means render at the size of the source and don’t scale (if there are multiple source sizes, GTK+ picks one of the available sizes).

[type int]

Returns

a new pixbuf, or NULL if the stock ID wasn’t known.

[transfer full][nullable]

Since: 3.0

gtk_widget_pop_composite_child ()

void
gtk_widget_pop_composite_child (void);

gtk_widget_pop_composite_child has been deprecated since version 3.10 and should not be used in newly-written code.

Use gtk_widget_class_set_template(), or don’t use this API at all.

Cancels the effect of a previous call to gtk_widget_push_composite_child().

gtk_widget_push_composite_child ()

void
gtk_widget_push_composite_child (void);

gtk_widget_push_composite_child has been deprecated since version 3.10 and should not be used in newly-written code.

This API never really worked well and was mostly unused, now we have a more complete mechanism for composite children, see gtk_widget_class_set_template().

Makes all newly-created widgets as composite children until the corresponding gtk_widget_pop_composite_child() call.

A composite child is a child that’s an implementation detail of the container it’s inside and should not be visible to people using the container. Composite children aren’t treated differently by GTK+ (but see gtk_container_foreach() vs. gtk_container_forall()), but e.g. GUI builders might want to treat them in a different way.

gtk_widget_queue_draw_area ()

void
gtk_widget_queue_draw_area (GtkWidget *widget,
                            gint x,
                            gint y,
                            gint width,
                            gint height);

Convenience function that calls gtk_widget_queue_draw_region() on the region created from the given coordinates.

The region here is specified in widget coordinates. Widget coordinates are a bit odd; for historical reasons, they are defined as widget->window coordinates for widgets that return TRUE for gtk_widget_get_has_window(), and are relative to widget->allocation.x , widget->allocation.y otherwise.

width or height may be 0, in this case this function does nothing. Negative values for width and height are not allowed.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

x

x coordinate of upper-left corner of rectangle to redraw

y

y coordinate of upper-left corner of rectangle to redraw

width

width of region to draw

height

height of region to draw

gtk_widget_queue_draw_region ()

void
gtk_widget_queue_draw_region (GtkWidget *widget,
                              const cairo_region_t *region);

Invalidates the area of widget defined by region by calling gdk_window_invalidate_region() on the widget’s window and all its child windows. Once the main loop becomes idle (after the current batch of events has been processed, roughly), the window will receive expose events for the union of all regions that have been invalidated.

Normally you would only use this function in widget implementations. You might also use it to schedule a redraw of a GtkDrawingArea or some portion thereof.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

region

region to draw

Since: 3.0

gtk_widget_set_app_paintable ()

void
gtk_widget_set_app_paintable (GtkWidget *widget,
                              gboolean app_paintable);

Sets whether the application intends to draw on the widget in an “draw” handler.

This is a hint to the widget and does not affect the behavior of the GTK+ core; many widgets ignore this flag entirely. For widgets that do pay attention to the flag, such as GtkEventBox and GtkWindow, the effect is to suppress default themed drawing of the widget's background. (Children of the widget will still be drawn.) The application is then entirely responsible for drawing the widget background.

Note that the background is still drawn when the widget is mapped.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

app_paintable

TRUE if the application will paint on the widget

gtk_widget_set_double_buffered ()

void
gtk_widget_set_double_buffered (GtkWidget *widget,
                                gboolean double_buffered);

gtk_widget_set_double_buffered has been deprecated since version 3.14 and should not be used in newly-written code.

This function does not work under non-X11 backends or with non-native windows. It should not be used in newly written code.

Widgets are double buffered by default; you can use this function to turn off the buffering. “Double buffered” simply means that gdk_window_begin_draw_frame() and gdk_window_end_draw_frame() are called automatically around expose events sent to the widget. gdk_window_begin_draw_frame() diverts all drawing to a widget's window to an offscreen buffer, and gdk_window_end_draw_frame() draws the buffer to the screen. The result is that users see the window update in one smooth step, and don’t see individual graphics primitives being rendered.

In very simple terms, double buffered widgets don’t flicker, so you would only use this function to turn off double buffering if you had special needs and really knew what you were doing.

Note: if you turn off double-buffering, you have to handle expose events, since even the clearing to the background color or pixmap will not happen automatically (as it is done in gdk_window_begin_draw_frame()).

In 3.10 GTK and GDK have been restructured for translucent drawing. Since then expose events for double-buffered widgets are culled into a single event to the toplevel GDK window. If you now unset double buffering, you will cause a separate rendering pass for every widget. This will likely cause rendering problems - in particular related to stacking - and usually increases rendering times significantly.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

double_buffered

TRUE to double-buffer a widget

gtk_widget_set_redraw_on_allocate ()

void
gtk_widget_set_redraw_on_allocate (GtkWidget *widget,
                                   gboolean redraw_on_allocate);

Sets whether the entire widget is queued for drawing when its size allocation changes. By default, this setting is TRUE and the entire widget is redrawn on every size change. If your widget leaves the upper left unchanged when made bigger, turning this setting off will improve performance.

Note that for widgets where gtk_widget_get_has_window() is FALSE setting this flag to FALSE turns off all allocation on resizing: the widget will not even redraw if its position changes; this is to allow containers that don’t draw anything to avoid excess invalidations. If you set this flag on a widget with no window that does draw on widget->window , you are responsible for invalidating both the old and new allocation of the widget when the widget is moved and responsible for invalidating regions newly when the widget increases size.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

redraw_on_allocate

if TRUE, the entire widget will be redrawn when it is allocated to a new size. Otherwise, only the new portion of the widget will be redrawn.

gtk_widget_set_composite_name ()

void
gtk_widget_set_composite_name (GtkWidget *widget,
                               const gchar *name);

gtk_widget_set_composite_name has been deprecated since version 3.10 and should not be used in newly-written code.

Use gtk_widget_class_set_template(), or don’t use this API at all.

Sets a widgets composite name. The widget must be a composite child of its parent; see gtk_widget_push_composite_child().

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget.

name

the name to set

gtk_widget_mnemonic_activate ()

gboolean
gtk_widget_mnemonic_activate (GtkWidget *widget,
                              gboolean group_cycling);

Emits the “mnemonic-activate” signal.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

group_cycling

TRUE if there are other widgets with the same mnemonic

Returns

TRUE if the signal has been handled

gtk_widget_class_install_style_property ()

void
gtk_widget_class_install_style_property
                               (GtkWidgetClass *klass,
                                GParamSpec *pspec);

Installs a style property on a widget class. The parser for the style property is determined by the value type of pspec .

Parameters

klass

a GtkWidgetClass

pspec

the GParamSpec for the property

gtk_widget_class_install_style_property_parser ()

void
gtk_widget_class_install_style_property_parser
                               (GtkWidgetClass *klass,
                                GParamSpec *pspec,
                                GtkRcPropertyParser parser);

Installs a style property on a widget class.

[skip]

Parameters

klass

a GtkWidgetClass

pspec

the GParamSpec for the style property

parser

the parser for the style property

gtk_widget_class_find_style_property ()

GParamSpec *
gtk_widget_class_find_style_property (GtkWidgetClass *klass,
                                      const gchar *property_name);

Finds a style property of a widget class by name.

Parameters

klass

a GtkWidgetClass

property_name

the name of the style property to find

Returns

the GParamSpec of the style property or NULL if class has no style property with that name.

[transfer none]

Since: 2.2

gtk_widget_class_list_style_properties ()

GParamSpec **
gtk_widget_class_list_style_properties
                               (GtkWidgetClass *klass,
                                guint *n_properties);

Returns all style properties of a widget class.

Parameters

klass

a GtkWidgetClass

n_properties

location to return the number of style properties found.

[out]

Returns

a newly allocated array of GParamSpec*. The array must be freed with g_free().

[array length=n_properties][transfer container]

Since: 2.2

gtk_widget_region_intersect ()

cairo_region_t *
gtk_widget_region_intersect (GtkWidget *widget,
                             const cairo_region_t *region);

gtk_widget_region_intersect has been deprecated since version 3.14 and should not be used in newly-written code.

Use gtk_widget_get_allocation() and cairo_region_intersect_rectangle() to get the same behavior.

Computes the intersection of a widget ’s area and region , returning the intersection. The result may be empty, use cairo_region_is_empty() to check.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

region

a cairo_region_t, in the same coordinate system as widget->allocation . That is, relative to widget->window for widgets which return FALSE from gtk_widget_get_has_window(); relative to the parent window of widget->window otherwise.

Returns

A newly allocated region holding the intersection of widget and region .

gtk_widget_send_expose ()

gint
gtk_widget_send_expose (GtkWidget *widget,
                        GdkEvent *event);

gtk_widget_send_expose has been deprecated since version 3.22 and should not be used in newly-written code.

Application and widget code should not handle expose events directly; invalidation should use the GtkWidget API, and drawing should only happen inside “draw” implementations

Very rarely-used function. This function is used to emit an expose event on a widget. This function is not normally used directly. The only time it is used is when propagating an expose event to a windowless child widget (gtk_widget_get_has_window() is FALSE), and that is normally done using gtk_container_propagate_draw().

If you want to force an area of a window to be redrawn, use gdk_window_invalidate_rect() or gdk_window_invalidate_region(). To cause the redraw to be done immediately, follow that call with a call to gdk_window_process_updates().

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

event

a expose GdkEvent

Returns

return from the event signal emission (TRUE if the event was handled)

gtk_widget_send_focus_change ()

gboolean
gtk_widget_send_focus_change (GtkWidget *widget,
                              GdkEvent *event);

Sends the focus change event to widget

This function is not meant to be used by applications. The only time it should be used is when it is necessary for a GtkWidget to assign focus to a widget that is semantically owned by the first widget even though it’s not a direct child - for instance, a search entry in a floating window similar to the quick search in GtkTreeView.

An example of its usage is:

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

event

a GdkEvent of type GDK_FOCUS_CHANGE

Returns

the return value from the event signal emission: TRUE if the event was handled, and FALSE otherwise

Since: 2.20

gtk_widget_style_get ()

void
gtk_widget_style_get (GtkWidget *widget,
                      const gchar *first_property_name,
                      ...);

Gets the values of a multiple style properties of widget .

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

first_property_name

the name of the first property to get

...

pairs of property names and locations to return the property values, starting with the location for first_property_name , terminated by NULL.

gtk_widget_style_get_property ()

void
gtk_widget_style_get_property (GtkWidget *widget,
                               const gchar *property_name,
                               GValue *value);

Gets the value of a style property of widget .

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

property_name

the name of a style property

value

location to return the property value

gtk_widget_style_get_valist ()

void
gtk_widget_style_get_valist (GtkWidget *widget,
                             const gchar *first_property_name,
                             va_list var_args);

Non-vararg variant of gtk_widget_style_get(). Used primarily by language bindings.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

first_property_name

the name of the first property to get

var_args

a va_list of pairs of property names and locations to return the property values, starting with the location for first_property_name .

gtk_widget_style_attach ()

void
gtk_widget_style_attach (GtkWidget *widget);

gtk_widget_style_attach has been deprecated since version 3.0 and should not be used in newly-written code.

This step is unnecessary with GtkStyleContext.

This function attaches the widget’s GtkStyle to the widget's GdkWindow. It is a replacement for

and should only ever be called in a derived widget’s “realize” implementation which does not chain up to its parent class' “realize” implementation, because one of the parent classes (finally GtkWidget) would attach the style itself.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

Since: 2.20

gtk_widget_class_set_accessible_type ()

void
gtk_widget_class_set_accessible_type (GtkWidgetClass *widget_class,
                                      GType type);

Sets the type to be used for creating accessibles for widgets of widget_class . The given type must be a subtype of the type used for accessibles of the parent class.

This function should only be called from class init functions of widgets.

Parameters

widget_class

class to set the accessible type for

type

The object type that implements the accessible for widget_class

Since: 3.2

gtk_widget_class_set_accessible_role ()

void
gtk_widget_class_set_accessible_role (GtkWidgetClass *widget_class,
                                      AtkRole role);

Sets the default AtkRole to be set on accessibles created for widgets of widget_class . Accessibles may decide to not honor this setting if their role reporting is more refined. Calls to gtk_widget_class_set_accessible_type() will reset this value.

In cases where you want more fine-grained control over the role of accessibles created for widget_class , you should provide your own accessible type and use gtk_widget_class_set_accessible_type() instead.

If role is ATK_ROLE_INVALID, the default role will not be changed and the accessible’s default role will be used instead.

This function should only be called from class init functions of widgets.

Parameters

widget_class

class to set the accessible role for

role

The role to use for accessibles created for widget_class

Since: 3.2

gtk_widget_get_accessible ()

AtkObject *
gtk_widget_get_accessible (GtkWidget *widget);

Returns the accessible object that describes the widget to an assistive technology.

If accessibility support is not available, this AtkObject instance may be a no-op. Likewise, if no class-specific AtkObject implementation is available for the widget instance in question, it will inherit an AtkObject implementation from the first ancestor class for which such an implementation is defined.

The documentation of the ATK library contains more information about accessible objects and their uses.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

Returns

the AtkObject associated with widget .

[transfer none]

gtk_widget_child_focus ()

gboolean
gtk_widget_child_focus (GtkWidget *widget,
                        GtkDirectionType direction);

This function is used by custom widget implementations; if you're writing an app, you’d use gtk_widget_grab_focus() to move the focus to a particular widget, and gtk_container_set_focus_chain() to change the focus tab order. So you may want to investigate those functions instead.

gtk_widget_child_focus() is called by containers as the user moves around the window using keyboard shortcuts. direction indicates what kind of motion is taking place (up, down, left, right, tab forward, tab backward). gtk_widget_child_focus() emits the “focus” signal; widgets override the default handler for this signal in order to implement appropriate focus behavior.

The default ::focus handler for a widget should return TRUE if moving in direction left the focus on a focusable location inside that widget, and FALSE if moving in direction moved the focus outside the widget. If returning TRUE, widgets normally call gtk_widget_grab_focus() to place the focus accordingly; if returning FALSE, they don’t modify the current focus location.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

direction

direction of focus movement

Returns

TRUE if focus ended up inside widget

gtk_widget_child_notify ()

void
gtk_widget_child_notify (GtkWidget *widget,
                         const gchar *child_property);

Emits a “child-notify” signal for the child property child_property on widget .

This is the analogue of g_object_notify() for child properties.

Also see gtk_container_child_notify().

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

child_property

the name of a child property installed on the class of widget ’s parent

gtk_widget_freeze_child_notify ()

void
gtk_widget_freeze_child_notify (GtkWidget *widget);

Stops emission of “child-notify” signals on widget . The signals are queued until gtk_widget_thaw_child_notify() is called on widget .

This is the analogue of g_object_freeze_notify() for child properties.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

gtk_widget_get_child_visible ()

gboolean
gtk_widget_get_child_visible (GtkWidget *widget);

Gets the value set with gtk_widget_set_child_visible(). If you feel a need to use this function, your code probably needs reorganization.

This function is only useful for container implementations and never should be called by an application.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

Returns

TRUE if the widget is mapped with the parent.

gtk_widget_get_parent ()

GtkWidget *
gtk_widget_get_parent (GtkWidget *widget);

Returns the parent container of widget .

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

Returns

the parent container of widget , or NULL.

[transfer none][nullable]

gtk_widget_get_settings ()

GtkSettings *
gtk_widget_get_settings (GtkWidget *widget);

Gets the settings object holding the settings used for this widget.

Note that this function can only be called when the GtkWidget is attached to a toplevel, since the settings object is specific to a particular GdkScreen.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

Returns

the relevant GtkSettings object.

[transfer none]

gtk_widget_get_clipboard ()

GtkClipboard *
gtk_widget_get_clipboard (GtkWidget *widget,
                          GdkAtom selection);

Returns the clipboard object for the given selection to be used with widget . widget must have a GdkDisplay associated with it, so must be attached to a toplevel window.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

selection

a GdkAtom which identifies the clipboard to use. GDK_SELECTION_CLIPBOARD gives the default clipboard. Another common value is GDK_SELECTION_PRIMARY, which gives the primary X selection.

Returns

the appropriate clipboard object. If no clipboard already exists, a new one will be created. Once a clipboard object has been created, it is persistent for all time.

[transfer none]

Since: 2.2

gtk_widget_get_display ()

GdkDisplay *
gtk_widget_get_display (GtkWidget *widget);

Get the GdkDisplay for the toplevel window associated with this widget. This function can only be called after the widget has been added to a widget hierarchy with a GtkWindow at the top.

In general, you should only create display specific resources when a widget has been realized, and you should free those resources when the widget is unrealized.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

Returns

the GdkDisplay for the toplevel for this widget.

[transfer none]

Since: 2.2

gtk_widget_get_root_window ()

GdkWindow *
gtk_widget_get_root_window (GtkWidget *widget);

gtk_widget_get_root_window has been deprecated since version 3.12 and should not be used in newly-written code.

Use gdk_screen_get_root_window() instead

Get the root window where this widget is located. This function can only be called after the widget has been added to a widget hierarchy with GtkWindow at the top.

The root window is useful for such purposes as creating a popup GdkWindow associated with the window. In general, you should only create display specific resources when a widget has been realized, and you should free those resources when the widget is unrealized.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

Returns

the GdkWindow root window for the toplevel for this widget.

[transfer none]

Since: 2.2

gtk_widget_get_screen ()

GdkScreen *
gtk_widget_get_screen (GtkWidget *widget);

Get the GdkScreen from the toplevel window associated with this widget. This function can only be called after the widget has been added to a widget hierarchy with a GtkWindow at the top.

In general, you should only create screen specific resources when a widget has been realized, and you should free those resources when the widget is unrealized.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

Returns

the GdkScreen for the toplevel for this widget.

[transfer none]

Since: 2.2

gtk_widget_has_screen ()

gboolean
gtk_widget_has_screen (GtkWidget *widget);

Checks whether there is a GdkScreen is associated with this widget. All toplevel widgets have an associated screen, and all widgets added into a hierarchy with a toplevel window at the top.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

Returns

TRUE if there is a GdkScreen associated with the widget.

Since: 2.2

gtk_widget_get_size_request ()

void
gtk_widget_get_size_request (GtkWidget *widget,
                             gint *width,
                             gint *height);

Gets the size request that was explicitly set for the widget using gtk_widget_set_size_request(). A value of -1 stored in width or height indicates that that dimension has not been set explicitly and the natural requisition of the widget will be used instead. See gtk_widget_set_size_request(). To get the size a widget will actually request, call gtk_widget_get_preferred_size() instead of this function.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

width

return location for width, or NULL.

[out][allow-none]

height

return location for height, or NULL.

[out][allow-none]

gtk_widget_set_child_visible ()

void
gtk_widget_set_child_visible (GtkWidget *widget,
                              gboolean is_visible);

Sets whether widget should be mapped along with its when its parent is mapped and widget has been shown with gtk_widget_show().

The child visibility can be set for widget before it is added to a container with gtk_widget_set_parent(), to avoid mapping children unnecessary before immediately unmapping them. However it will be reset to its default state of TRUE when the widget is removed from a container.

Note that changing the child visibility of a widget does not queue a resize on the widget. Most of the time, the size of a widget is computed from all visible children, whether or not they are mapped. If this is not the case, the container can queue a resize itself.

This function is only useful for container implementations and never should be called by an application.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

is_visible

if TRUE, widget should be mapped along with its parent.

gtk_widget_set_size_request ()

void
gtk_widget_set_size_request (GtkWidget *widget,
                             gint width,
                             gint height);

Sets the minimum size of a widget; that is, the widget’s size request will be at least width by height . You can use this function to force a widget to be larger than it normally would be.

In most cases, gtk_window_set_default_size() is a better choice for toplevel windows than this function; setting the default size will still allow users to shrink the window. Setting the size request will force them to leave the window at least as large as the size request. When dealing with window sizes, gtk_window_set_geometry_hints() can be a useful function as well.

Note the inherent danger of setting any fixed size - themes, translations into other languages, different fonts, and user action can all change the appropriate size for a given widget. So, it's basically impossible to hardcode a size that will always be correct.

The size request of a widget is the smallest size a widget can accept while still functioning well and drawing itself correctly. However in some strange cases a widget may be allocated less than its requested size, and in many cases a widget may be allocated more space than it requested.

If the size request in a given direction is -1 (unset), then the “natural” size request of the widget will be used instead.

The size request set here does not include any margin from the GtkWidget properties margin-left, margin-right, margin-top, and margin-bottom, but it does include pretty much all other padding or border properties set by any subclass of GtkWidget.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

width

width widget should request, or -1 to unset

height

height widget should request, or -1 to unset

gtk_widget_thaw_child_notify ()

void
gtk_widget_thaw_child_notify (GtkWidget *widget);

Reverts the effect of a previous call to gtk_widget_freeze_child_notify(). This causes all queued “child-notify” signals on widget to be emitted.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

gtk_widget_set_no_show_all ()

void
gtk_widget_set_no_show_all (GtkWidget *widget,
                            gboolean no_show_all);

Sets the “no-show-all” property, which determines whether calls to gtk_widget_show_all() will affect this widget.

This is mostly for use in constructing widget hierarchies with externally controlled visibility, see GtkUIManager.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

no_show_all

the new value for the “no-show-all” property

Since: 2.4

gtk_widget_get_no_show_all ()

gboolean
gtk_widget_get_no_show_all (GtkWidget *widget);

Returns the current value of the “no-show-all” property, which determines whether calls to gtk_widget_show_all() will affect this widget.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

Returns

the current value of the “no-show-all” property.

Since: 2.4

gtk_widget_list_mnemonic_labels ()

GList *
gtk_widget_list_mnemonic_labels (GtkWidget *widget);

Returns a newly allocated list of the widgets, normally labels, for which this widget is the target of a mnemonic (see for example, gtk_label_set_mnemonic_widget()).

The widgets in the list are not individually referenced. If you want to iterate through the list and perform actions involving callbacks that might destroy the widgets, you must call g_list_foreach (result, (GFunc)g_object_ref, NULL) first, and then unref all the widgets afterwards.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

Returns

the list of mnemonic labels; free this list with g_list_free() when you are done with it.

[element-type GtkWidget][transfer container]

Since: 2.4

gtk_widget_add_mnemonic_label ()

void
gtk_widget_add_mnemonic_label (GtkWidget *widget,
                               GtkWidget *label);

Adds a widget to the list of mnemonic labels for this widget. (See gtk_widget_list_mnemonic_labels()). Note the list of mnemonic labels for the widget is cleared when the widget is destroyed, so the caller must make sure to update its internal state at this point as well, by using a connection to the “destroy” signal or a weak notifier.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

label

a GtkWidget that acts as a mnemonic label for widget

Since: 2.4

gtk_widget_remove_mnemonic_label ()

void
gtk_widget_remove_mnemonic_label (GtkWidget *widget,
                                  GtkWidget *label);

Removes a widget from the list of mnemonic labels for this widget. (See gtk_widget_list_mnemonic_labels()). The widget must have previously been added to the list with gtk_widget_add_mnemonic_label().

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

label

a GtkWidget that was previously set as a mnemonic label for widget with gtk_widget_add_mnemonic_label().

Since: 2.4

gtk_widget_is_composited ()

gboolean
gtk_widget_is_composited (GtkWidget *widget);

gtk_widget_is_composited has been deprecated since version 3.22 and should not be used in newly-written code.

Use gdk_screen_is_composited() instead.

Whether widget can rely on having its alpha channel drawn correctly. On X11 this function returns whether a compositing manager is running for widget ’s screen.

Please note that the semantics of this call will change in the future if used on a widget that has a composited window in its hierarchy (as set by gdk_window_set_composited()).

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

Returns

TRUE if the widget can rely on its alpha channel being drawn correctly.

Since: 2.10

gtk_widget_error_bell ()

void
gtk_widget_error_bell (GtkWidget *widget);

Notifies the user about an input-related error on this widget. If the “gtk-error-bell” setting is TRUE, it calls gdk_window_beep(), otherwise it does nothing.

Note that the effect of gdk_window_beep() can be configured in many ways, depending on the windowing backend and the desktop environment or window manager that is used.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

Since: 2.12

gtk_widget_keynav_failed ()

gboolean
gtk_widget_keynav_failed (GtkWidget *widget,
                          GtkDirectionType direction);

This function should be called whenever keyboard navigation within a single widget hits a boundary. The function emits the “keynav-failed” signal on the widget and its return value should be interpreted in a way similar to the return value of gtk_widget_child_focus():

When TRUE is returned, stay in the widget, the failed keyboard navigation is OK and/or there is nowhere we can/should move the focus to.

When FALSE is returned, the caller should continue with keyboard navigation outside the widget, e.g. by calling gtk_widget_child_focus() on the widget’s toplevel.

The default ::keynav-failed handler returns FALSE for GTK_DIR_TAB_FORWARD and GTK_DIR_TAB_BACKWARD. For the other values of GtkDirectionType it returns TRUE.

Whenever the default handler returns TRUE, it also calls gtk_widget_error_bell() to notify the user of the failed keyboard navigation.

A use case for providing an own implementation of ::keynav-failed (either by connecting to it or by overriding it) would be a row of GtkEntry widgets where the user should be able to navigate the entire row with the cursor keys, as e.g. known from user interfaces that require entering license keys.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

direction

direction of focus movement

Returns

TRUE if stopping keyboard navigation is fine, FALSE if the emitting widget should try to handle the keyboard navigation attempt in its parent container(s).

Since: 2.12

gtk_widget_get_tooltip_markup ()

gchar *
gtk_widget_get_tooltip_markup (GtkWidget *widget);

Gets the contents of the tooltip for widget .

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

Returns

the tooltip text, or NULL. You should free the returned string with g_free() when done.

[nullable]

Since: 2.12

gtk_widget_set_tooltip_markup ()

void
gtk_widget_set_tooltip_markup (GtkWidget *widget,
                               const gchar *markup);

Sets markup as the contents of the tooltip, which is marked up with the Pango text markup language.

This function will take care of setting “has-tooltip” to TRUE and of the default handler for the “query-tooltip” signal.

See also the “tooltip-markup” property and gtk_tooltip_set_markup().

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

markup

the contents of the tooltip for widget , or NULL.

[allow-none]

Since: 2.12

gtk_widget_get_tooltip_text ()

gchar *
gtk_widget_get_tooltip_text (GtkWidget *widget);

Gets the contents of the tooltip for widget .

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

Returns

the tooltip text, or NULL. You should free the returned string with g_free() when done.

[nullable]

Since: 2.12

gtk_widget_set_tooltip_text ()

void
gtk_widget_set_tooltip_text (GtkWidget *widget,
                             const gchar *text);

Sets text as the contents of the tooltip. This function will take care of setting “has-tooltip” to TRUE and of the default handler for the “query-tooltip” signal.

See also the “tooltip-text” property and gtk_tooltip_set_text().

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

text

the contents of the tooltip for widget .

[allow-none]

Since: 2.12

gtk_widget_get_tooltip_window ()

GtkWindow *
gtk_widget_get_tooltip_window (GtkWidget *widget);

Returns the GtkWindow of the current tooltip. This can be the GtkWindow created by default, or the custom tooltip window set using gtk_widget_set_tooltip_window().

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

Returns

The GtkWindow of the current tooltip.

[transfer none]

Since: 2.12

gtk_widget_set_tooltip_window ()

void
gtk_widget_set_tooltip_window (GtkWidget *widget,
                               GtkWindow *custom_window);

Replaces the default window used for displaying tooltips with custom_window . GTK+ will take care of showing and hiding custom_window at the right moment, to behave likewise as the default tooltip window. If custom_window is NULL, the default tooltip window will be used.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

custom_window

a GtkWindow, or NULL.

[allow-none]

Since: 2.12

gtk_widget_get_has_tooltip ()

gboolean
gtk_widget_get_has_tooltip (GtkWidget *widget);

Returns the current value of the has-tooltip property. See “has-tooltip” for more information.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

Returns

current value of has-tooltip on widget .

Since: 2.12

gtk_widget_set_has_tooltip ()

void
gtk_widget_set_has_tooltip (GtkWidget *widget,
                            gboolean has_tooltip);

Sets the has-tooltip property on widget to has_tooltip . See “has-tooltip” for more information.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

has_tooltip

whether or not widget has a tooltip.

Since: 2.12

gtk_widget_trigger_tooltip_query ()

void
gtk_widget_trigger_tooltip_query (GtkWidget *widget);

Triggers a tooltip query on the display where the toplevel of widget is located. See gtk_tooltip_trigger_tooltip_query() for more information.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

Since: 2.12

gtk_widget_get_window ()

GdkWindow *
gtk_widget_get_window (GtkWidget *widget);

Returns the widget’s window if it is realized, NULL otherwise

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

Returns

widget ’s window.

[transfer none][nullable]

Since: 2.14

gtk_widget_register_window ()

void
gtk_widget_register_window (GtkWidget *widget,
                            GdkWindow *window);

Registers a GdkWindow with the widget and sets it up so that the widget receives events for it. Call gtk_widget_unregister_window() when destroying the window.

Before 3.8 you needed to call gdk_window_set_user_data() directly to set this up. This is now deprecated and you should use gtk_widget_register_window() instead. Old code will keep working as is, although some new features like transparency might not work perfectly.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

window

a GdkWindow

Since: 3.8

gtk_widget_unregister_window ()

void
gtk_widget_unregister_window (GtkWidget *widget,
                              GdkWindow *window);

Unregisters a GdkWindow from the widget that was previously set up with gtk_widget_register_window(). You need to call this when the window is no longer used by the widget, such as when you destroy it.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

window

a GdkWindow

Since: 3.8

gtk_cairo_should_draw_window ()

gboolean
gtk_cairo_should_draw_window (cairo_t *cr,
                              GdkWindow *window);

This function is supposed to be called in “draw” implementations for widgets that support multiple windows. cr must be untransformed from invoking of the draw function. This function will return TRUE if the contents of the given window are supposed to be drawn and FALSE otherwise. Note that when the drawing was not initiated by the windowing system this function will return TRUE for all windows, so you need to draw the bottommost window first. Also, do not use “else if” statements to check which window should be drawn.

Parameters

cr

a cairo context

window

the window to check. window may not be an input-only window.

Returns

TRUE if window should be drawn

Since: 3.0

gtk_cairo_transform_to_window ()

void
gtk_cairo_transform_to_window (cairo_t *cr,
                               GtkWidget *widget,
                               GdkWindow *window);

Transforms the given cairo context cr that from widget -relative coordinates to window -relative coordinates. If the widget ’s window is not an ancestor of window , no modification will be applied.

This is the inverse to the transformation GTK applies when preparing an expose event to be emitted with the “draw” signal. It is intended to help porting multiwindow widgets from GTK+ 2 to the rendering architecture of GTK+ 3.

Parameters

cr

the cairo context to transform

widget

the widget the context is currently centered for

window

the window to transform the context to

Since: 3.0

gtk_widget_get_allocated_width ()

int
gtk_widget_get_allocated_width (GtkWidget *widget);

Returns the width that has currently been allocated to widget . This function is intended to be used when implementing handlers for the “draw” function.

Parameters

widget

the widget to query

Returns

the width of the widget

gtk_widget_get_allocated_height ()

int
gtk_widget_get_allocated_height (GtkWidget *widget);

Returns the height that has currently been allocated to widget . This function is intended to be used when implementing handlers for the “draw” function.

Parameters

widget

the widget to query

Returns

the height of the widget

gtk_widget_get_allocation ()

void
gtk_widget_get_allocation (GtkWidget *widget,
                           GtkAllocation *allocation);

Retrieves the widget’s allocation.

Note, when implementing a GtkContainer: a widget’s allocation will be its “adjusted” allocation, that is, the widget’s parent container typically calls gtk_widget_size_allocate() with an allocation, and that allocation is then adjusted (to handle margin and alignment for example) before assignment to the widget. gtk_widget_get_allocation() returns the adjusted allocation that was actually assigned to the widget. The adjusted allocation is guaranteed to be completely contained within the gtk_widget_size_allocate() allocation, however. So a GtkContainer is guaranteed that its children stay inside the assigned bounds, but not that they have exactly the bounds the container assigned. There is no way to get the original allocation assigned by gtk_widget_size_allocate(), since it isn’t stored; if a container implementation needs that information it will have to track it itself.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

allocation

a pointer to a GtkAllocation to copy to.

[out]

Since: 2.18

gtk_widget_set_allocation ()

void
gtk_widget_set_allocation (GtkWidget *widget,
                           const GtkAllocation *allocation);

Sets the widget’s allocation. This should not be used directly, but from within a widget’s size_allocate method.

The allocation set should be the “adjusted” or actual allocation. If you’re implementing a GtkContainer, you want to use gtk_widget_size_allocate() instead of gtk_widget_set_allocation(). The GtkWidgetClass::adjust_size_allocation virtual method adjusts the allocation inside gtk_widget_size_allocate() to create an adjusted allocation.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

allocation

a pointer to a GtkAllocation to copy from

Since: 2.18

gtk_widget_get_allocated_baseline ()

int
gtk_widget_get_allocated_baseline (GtkWidget *widget);

Returns the baseline that has currently been allocated to widget . This function is intended to be used when implementing handlers for the “draw” function, and when allocating child widgets in “size_allocate”.

Parameters

widget

the widget to query

Returns

the baseline of the widget , or -1 if none

Since: 3.10

gtk_widget_get_allocated_size ()

void
gtk_widget_get_allocated_size (GtkWidget *widget,
                               GtkAllocation *allocation,
                               int *baseline);

Retrieves the widget’s allocated size.

This function returns the last values passed to gtk_widget_size_allocate_with_baseline(). The value differs from the size returned in gtk_widget_get_allocation() in that functions like gtk_widget_set_halign() can adjust the allocation, but not the value returned by this function.

If a widget is not visible, its allocated size is 0.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

allocation

a pointer to a GtkAllocation to copy to.

[out]

baseline

a pointer to an integer to copy to.

[out][allow-none]

Since: 3.20

gtk_widget_get_clip ()

void
gtk_widget_get_clip (GtkWidget *widget,
                     GtkAllocation *clip);

Retrieves the widget’s clip area.

The clip area is the area in which all of widget 's drawing will happen. Other toolkits call it the bounding box.

Historically, in GTK+ the clip area has been equal to the allocation retrieved via gtk_widget_get_allocation().

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

clip

a pointer to a GtkAllocation to copy to.

[out]

Since: 3.14

gtk_widget_set_clip ()

void
gtk_widget_set_clip (GtkWidget *widget,
                     const GtkAllocation *clip);

Sets the widget’s clip. This must not be used directly, but from within a widget’s size_allocate method. It must be called after gtk_widget_set_allocation() (or after chaining up to the parent class), because that function resets the clip.

The clip set should be the area that widget draws on. If widget is a GtkContainer, the area must contain all children's clips.

If this function is not called by widget during a ::size-allocate handler, the clip will be set to widget 's allocation.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

clip

a pointer to a GtkAllocation to copy from

Since: 3.14

gtk_widget_get_app_paintable ()

gboolean
gtk_widget_get_app_paintable (GtkWidget *widget);

Determines whether the application intends to draw on the widget in an “draw” handler.

See gtk_widget_set_app_paintable()

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

Returns

TRUE if the widget is app paintable

Since: 2.18

gtk_widget_get_can_default ()

gboolean
gtk_widget_get_can_default (GtkWidget *widget);

Determines whether widget can be a default widget. See gtk_widget_set_can_default().

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

Returns

TRUE if widget can be a default widget, FALSE otherwise

Since: 2.18

gtk_widget_set_can_default ()

void
gtk_widget_set_can_default (GtkWidget *widget,
                            gboolean can_default);

Specifies whether widget can be a default widget. See gtk_widget_grab_default() for details about the meaning of “default”.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

can_default

whether or not widget can be a default widget.

Since: 2.18

gtk_widget_get_can_focus ()

gboolean
gtk_widget_get_can_focus (GtkWidget *widget);

Determines whether widget can own the input focus. See gtk_widget_set_can_focus().

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

Returns

TRUE if widget can own the input focus, FALSE otherwise

Since: 2.18

gtk_widget_set_can_focus ()

void
gtk_widget_set_can_focus (GtkWidget *widget,
                          gboolean can_focus);

Specifies whether widget can own the input focus. See gtk_widget_grab_focus() for actually setting the input focus on a widget.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

can_focus

whether or not widget can own the input focus.

Since: 2.18

gtk_widget_get_focus_on_click ()

gboolean
gtk_widget_get_focus_on_click (GtkWidget *widget);

Returns whether the widget should grab focus when it is clicked with the mouse. See gtk_widget_set_focus_on_click().

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

Returns

TRUE if the widget should grab focus when it is clicked with the mouse.

Since: 3.20

gtk_widget_set_focus_on_click ()

void
gtk_widget_set_focus_on_click (GtkWidget *widget,
                               gboolean focus_on_click);

Sets whether the widget should grab focus when it is clicked with the mouse. Making mouse clicks not grab focus is useful in places like toolbars where you don’t want the keyboard focus removed from the main area of the application.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

focus_on_click

whether the widget should grab focus when clicked with the mouse

Since: 3.20

gtk_widget_get_double_buffered ()

gboolean
gtk_widget_get_double_buffered (GtkWidget *widget);

gtk_widget_get_double_buffered is deprecated and should not be used in newly-written code.

Determines whether the widget is double buffered.

See gtk_widget_set_double_buffered()

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

Returns

TRUE if the widget is double buffered

Since: 2.18

gtk_widget_get_has_window ()

gboolean
gtk_widget_get_has_window (GtkWidget *widget);

Determines whether widget has a GdkWindow of its own. See gtk_widget_set_has_window().

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

Returns

TRUE if widget has a window, FALSE otherwise

Since: 2.18

gtk_widget_set_has_window ()

void
gtk_widget_set_has_window (GtkWidget *widget,
                           gboolean has_window);

Specifies whether widget has a GdkWindow of its own. Note that all realized widgets have a non-NULL “window” pointer (gtk_widget_get_window() never returns a NULL window when a widget is realized), but for many of them it’s actually the GdkWindow of one of its parent widgets. Widgets that do not create a window for themselves in “realize” must announce this by calling this function with has_window = FALSE.

This function should only be called by widget implementations, and they should call it in their init() function.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

has_window

whether or not widget has a window.

Since: 2.18

gtk_widget_get_sensitive ()

gboolean
gtk_widget_get_sensitive (GtkWidget *widget);

Returns the widget’s sensitivity (in the sense of returning the value that has been set using gtk_widget_set_sensitive()).

The effective sensitivity of a widget is however determined by both its own and its parent widget’s sensitivity. See gtk_widget_is_sensitive().

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

Returns

TRUE if the widget is sensitive

Since: 2.18

gtk_widget_is_sensitive ()

gboolean
gtk_widget_is_sensitive (GtkWidget *widget);

Returns the widget’s effective sensitivity, which means it is sensitive itself and also its parent widget is sensitive

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

Returns

TRUE if the widget is effectively sensitive

Since: 2.18

gtk_widget_get_state ()

GtkStateType
gtk_widget_get_state (GtkWidget *widget);

gtk_widget_get_state has been deprecated since version 3.0 and should not be used in newly-written code.

Use gtk_widget_get_state_flags() instead.

Returns the widget’s state. See gtk_widget_set_state().

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

Returns

the state of widget .

Since: 2.18

gtk_widget_get_visible ()

gboolean
gtk_widget_get_visible (GtkWidget *widget);

Determines whether the widget is visible. If you want to take into account whether the widget’s parent is also marked as visible, use gtk_widget_is_visible() instead.

This function does not check if the widget is obscured in any way.

See gtk_widget_set_visible().

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

Returns

TRUE if the widget is visible

Since: 2.18

gtk_widget_is_visible ()

gboolean
gtk_widget_is_visible (GtkWidget *widget);

Determines whether the widget and all its parents are marked as visible.

This function does not check if the widget is obscured in any way.

See also gtk_widget_get_visible() and gtk_widget_set_visible()

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

Returns

TRUE if the widget and all its parents are visible

Since: 3.8

gtk_widget_set_visible ()

void
gtk_widget_set_visible (GtkWidget *widget,
                        gboolean visible);

Sets the visibility state of widget . Note that setting this to TRUE doesn’t mean the widget is actually viewable, see gtk_widget_get_visible().

This function simply calls gtk_widget_show() or gtk_widget_hide() but is nicer to use when the visibility of the widget depends on some condition.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

visible

whether the widget should be shown or not

Since: 2.18

gtk_widget_set_state_flags ()

void
gtk_widget_set_state_flags (GtkWidget *widget,
                            GtkStateFlags flags,
                            gboolean clear);

This function is for use in widget implementations. Turns on flag values in the current widget state (insensitive, prelighted, etc.).

This function accepts the values GTK_STATE_FLAG_DIR_LTR and GTK_STATE_FLAG_DIR_RTL but ignores them. If you want to set the widget's direction, use gtk_widget_set_direction().

It is worth mentioning that any other state than GTK_STATE_FLAG_INSENSITIVE, will be propagated down to all non-internal children if widget is a GtkContainer, while GTK_STATE_FLAG_INSENSITIVE itself will be propagated down to all GtkContainer children by different means than turning on the state flag down the hierarchy, both gtk_widget_get_state_flags() and gtk_widget_is_sensitive() will make use of these.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

flags

State flags to turn on

clear

Whether to clear state before turning on flags

Since: 3.0

gtk_widget_unset_state_flags ()

void
gtk_widget_unset_state_flags (GtkWidget *widget,
                              GtkStateFlags flags);

This function is for use in widget implementations. Turns off flag values for the current widget state (insensitive, prelighted, etc.). See gtk_widget_set_state_flags().

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

flags

State flags to turn off

Since: 3.0

gtk_widget_get_state_flags ()

GtkStateFlags
gtk_widget_get_state_flags (GtkWidget *widget);

Returns the widget state as a flag set. It is worth mentioning that the effective GTK_STATE_FLAG_INSENSITIVE state will be returned, that is, also based on parent insensitivity, even if widget itself is sensitive.

Also note that if you are looking for a way to obtain the GtkStateFlags to pass to a GtkStyleContext method, you should look at gtk_style_context_get_state().

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

Returns

The state flags for widget

Since: 3.0

gtk_widget_has_default ()

gboolean
gtk_widget_has_default (GtkWidget *widget);

Determines whether widget is the current default widget within its toplevel. See gtk_widget_set_can_default().

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

Returns

TRUE if widget is the current default widget within its toplevel, FALSE otherwise

Since: 2.18

gtk_widget_has_focus ()

gboolean
gtk_widget_has_focus (GtkWidget *widget);

Determines if the widget has the global input focus. See gtk_widget_is_focus() for the difference between having the global input focus, and only having the focus within a toplevel.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

Returns

TRUE if the widget has the global input focus.

Since: 2.18

gtk_widget_has_visible_focus ()

gboolean
gtk_widget_has_visible_focus (GtkWidget *widget);

Determines if the widget should show a visible indication that it has the global input focus. This is a convenience function for use in ::draw handlers that takes into account whether focus indication should currently be shown in the toplevel window of widget . See gtk_window_get_focus_visible() for more information about focus indication.

To find out if the widget has the global input focus, use gtk_widget_has_focus().

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

Returns

TRUE if the widget should display a “focus rectangle”

Since: 3.2

gtk_widget_has_grab ()

gboolean
gtk_widget_has_grab (GtkWidget *widget);

Determines whether the widget is currently grabbing events, so it is the only widget receiving input events (keyboard and mouse).

See also gtk_grab_add().

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

Returns

TRUE if the widget is in the grab_widgets stack

Since: 2.18

gtk_widget_has_rc_style ()

gboolean
gtk_widget_has_rc_style (GtkWidget *widget);

gtk_widget_has_rc_style has been deprecated since version 3.0 and should not be used in newly-written code.

Use GtkStyleContext instead

Determines if the widget style has been looked up through the rc mechanism.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

Returns

TRUE if the widget has been looked up through the rc mechanism, FALSE otherwise.

Since: 2.20

gtk_widget_is_drawable ()

gboolean
gtk_widget_is_drawable (GtkWidget *widget);

Determines whether widget can be drawn to. A widget can be drawn to if it is mapped and visible.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

Returns

TRUE if widget is drawable, FALSE otherwise

Since: 2.18

gtk_widget_is_toplevel ()

gboolean
gtk_widget_is_toplevel (GtkWidget *widget);

Determines whether widget is a toplevel widget.

Currently only GtkWindow and GtkInvisible (and out-of-process GtkPlugs) are toplevel widgets. Toplevel widgets have no parent widget.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

Returns

TRUE if widget is a toplevel, FALSE otherwise

Since: 2.18

gtk_widget_set_window ()

void
gtk_widget_set_window (GtkWidget *widget,
                       GdkWindow *window);

Sets a widget’s window. This function should only be used in a widget’s “realize” implementation. The window passed is usually either new window created with gdk_window_new(), or the window of its parent widget as returned by gtk_widget_get_parent_window().

Widgets must indicate whether they will create their own GdkWindow by calling gtk_widget_set_has_window(). This is usually done in the widget’s init() function.

Note that this function does not add any reference to window .

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

window

a GdkWindow.

[transfer full]

Since: 2.18

gtk_widget_set_receives_default ()

void
gtk_widget_set_receives_default (GtkWidget *widget,
                                 gboolean receives_default);

Specifies whether widget will be treated as the default widget within its toplevel when it has the focus, even if another widget is the default.

See gtk_widget_grab_default() for details about the meaning of “default”.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

receives_default

whether or not widget can be a default widget.

Since: 2.18

gtk_widget_get_receives_default ()

gboolean
gtk_widget_get_receives_default (GtkWidget *widget);

Determines whether widget is always treated as the default widget within its toplevel when it has the focus, even if another widget is the default.

See gtk_widget_set_receives_default().

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

Returns

TRUE if widget acts as the default widget when focused, FALSE otherwise

Since: 2.18

gtk_widget_set_support_multidevice ()

void
gtk_widget_set_support_multidevice (GtkWidget *widget,
                                    gboolean support_multidevice);

Enables or disables multiple pointer awareness. If this setting is TRUE, widget will start receiving multiple, per device enter/leave events. Note that if custom GdkWindows are created in “realize”, gdk_window_set_support_multidevice() will have to be called manually on them.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

support_multidevice

TRUE to support input from multiple devices.

Since: 3.0

gtk_widget_get_support_multidevice ()

gboolean
gtk_widget_get_support_multidevice (GtkWidget *widget);

Returns TRUE if widget is multiple pointer aware. See gtk_widget_set_support_multidevice() for more information.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

Returns

TRUE if widget is multidevice aware.

gtk_widget_set_realized ()

void
gtk_widget_set_realized (GtkWidget *widget,
                         gboolean realized);

Marks the widget as being realized. This function must only be called after all GdkWindows for the widget have been created and registered.

This function should only ever be called in a derived widget's “realize” or “unrealize” implementation.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

realized

TRUE to mark the widget as realized

Since: 2.20

gtk_widget_get_realized ()

gboolean
gtk_widget_get_realized (GtkWidget *widget);

Determines whether widget is realized.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

Returns

TRUE if widget is realized, FALSE otherwise

Since: 2.20

gtk_widget_set_mapped ()

void
gtk_widget_set_mapped (GtkWidget *widget,
                       gboolean mapped);

Marks the widget as being mapped.

This function should only ever be called in a derived widget's “map” or “unmap” implementation.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

mapped

TRUE to mark the widget as mapped

Since: 2.20

gtk_widget_get_mapped ()

gboolean
gtk_widget_get_mapped (GtkWidget *widget);

Whether the widget is mapped.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

Returns

TRUE if the widget is mapped, FALSE otherwise.

Since: 2.20

gtk_widget_get_requisition ()

void
gtk_widget_get_requisition (GtkWidget *widget,
                            GtkRequisition *requisition);

gtk_widget_get_requisition has been deprecated since version 3.0 and should not be used in newly-written code.

The GtkRequisition cache on the widget was removed, If you need to cache sizes across requests and allocations, add an explicit cache to the widget in question instead.

Retrieves the widget’s requisition.

This function should only be used by widget implementations in order to figure whether the widget’s requisition has actually changed after some internal state change (so that they can call gtk_widget_queue_resize() instead of gtk_widget_queue_draw()).

Normally, gtk_widget_size_request() should be used.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

requisition

a pointer to a GtkRequisition to copy to.

[out]

Since: 2.20

gtk_widget_device_is_shadowed ()

gboolean
gtk_widget_device_is_shadowed (GtkWidget *widget,
                               GdkDevice *device);

Returns TRUE if device has been shadowed by a GTK+ device grab on another widget, so it would stop sending events to widget . This may be used in the “grab-notify” signal to check for specific devices. See gtk_device_grab_add().

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

device

a GdkDevice

Returns

TRUE if there is an ongoing grab on device by another GtkWidget than widget .

Since: 3.0

gtk_widget_get_modifier_mask ()

GdkModifierType
gtk_widget_get_modifier_mask (GtkWidget *widget,
                              GdkModifierIntent intent);

Returns the modifier mask the widget ’s windowing system backend uses for a particular purpose.

See gdk_keymap_get_modifier_mask().

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

intent

the use case for the modifier mask

Returns

the modifier mask used for intent .

Since: 3.4

gtk_widget_insert_action_group ()

void
gtk_widget_insert_action_group (GtkWidget *widget,
                                const gchar *name,
                                GActionGroup *group);

Inserts group into widget . Children of widget that implement GtkActionable can then be associated with actions in group by setting their “action-name” to prefix .action-name.

If group is NULL, a previously inserted group for name is removed from widget .

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

name

the prefix for actions in group

group

a GActionGroup, or NULL.

[allow-none]

Since: 3.6

gtk_widget_get_opacity ()

double
gtk_widget_get_opacity (GtkWidget *widget);

Fetches the requested opacity for this widget. See gtk_widget_set_opacity().

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

Returns

the requested opacity for this widget.

Since: 3.8

gtk_widget_set_opacity ()

void
gtk_widget_set_opacity (GtkWidget *widget,
                        double opacity);

Request the widget to be rendered partially transparent, with opacity 0 being fully transparent and 1 fully opaque. (Opacity values are clamped to the [0,1] range.). This works on both toplevel widget, and child widgets, although there are some limitations:

For toplevel widgets this depends on the capabilities of the windowing system. On X11 this has any effect only on X screens with a compositing manager running. See gtk_widget_is_composited(). On Windows it should work always, although setting a window’s opacity after the window has been shown causes it to flicker once on Windows.

For child widgets it doesn’t work if any affected widget has a native window, or disables double buffering.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

opacity

desired opacity, between 0 and 1

Since: 3.8

gtk_widget_list_action_prefixes ()

const gchar **
gtk_widget_list_action_prefixes (GtkWidget *widget);

Retrieves a NULL-terminated array of strings containing the prefixes of GActionGroup's available to widget .

Parameters

widget

A GtkWidget

Returns

a NULL-terminated array of strings.

[transfer container]

Since: 3.16

gtk_widget_get_action_group ()

GActionGroup *
gtk_widget_get_action_group (GtkWidget *widget,
                             const gchar *prefix);

Retrieves the GActionGroup that was registered using prefix . The resulting GActionGroup may have been registered to widget or any GtkWidget in its ancestry.

If no action group was found matching prefix , then NULL is returned.

Parameters

widget

A GtkWidget

prefix

The “prefix” of the action group.

Returns

A GActionGroup or NULL.

[transfer none][nullable]

Since: 3.16

gtk_widget_get_path ()

GtkWidgetPath *
gtk_widget_get_path (GtkWidget *widget);

Returns the GtkWidgetPath representing widget , if the widget is not connected to a toplevel widget, a partial path will be created.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

Returns

The GtkWidgetPath representing widget .

[transfer none]

gtk_widget_get_style_context ()

GtkStyleContext *
gtk_widget_get_style_context (GtkWidget *widget);

Returns the style context associated to widget . The returned object is guaranteed to be the same for the lifetime of widget .

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

Returns

a GtkStyleContext. This memory is owned by widget and must not be freed.

[transfer none]

gtk_widget_reset_style ()

void
gtk_widget_reset_style (GtkWidget *widget);

Updates the style context of widget and all descendants by updating its widget path. GtkContainers may want to use this on a child when reordering it in a way that a different style might apply to it. See also gtk_container_get_path_for_child().

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

Since: 3.0

gtk_widget_class_get_css_name ()

const char *
gtk_widget_class_get_css_name (GtkWidgetClass *widget_class);

Gets the name used by this class for matching in CSS code. See gtk_widget_class_set_css_name() for details.

Parameters

widget_class

class to set the name on

Returns

the CSS name of the given class

Since: 3.20

gtk_widget_class_set_css_name ()

void
gtk_widget_class_set_css_name (GtkWidgetClass *widget_class,
                               const char *name);

Sets the name to be used for CSS matching of widgets.

If this function is not called for a given class, the name of the parent class is used.

Parameters

widget_class

class to set the name on

name

name to use

Since: 3.20

gtk_requisition_new ()

GtkRequisition *
gtk_requisition_new (void);

Allocates a new GtkRequisition and initializes its elements to zero.

Returns

a new empty GtkRequisition. The newly allocated GtkRequisition should be freed with gtk_requisition_free().

Since: 3.0

gtk_requisition_copy ()

GtkRequisition *
gtk_requisition_copy (const GtkRequisition *requisition);

Copies a GtkRequisition.

Parameters

requisition

a GtkRequisition

Returns

a copy of requisition

gtk_requisition_free ()

void
gtk_requisition_free (GtkRequisition *requisition);

Frees a GtkRequisition.

Parameters

requisition

a GtkRequisition

gtk_widget_get_preferred_height ()

void
gtk_widget_get_preferred_height (GtkWidget *widget,
                                 gint *minimum_height,
                                 gint *natural_height);

Retrieves a widget’s initial minimum and natural height.

This call is specific to width-for-height requests.

The returned request will be modified by the GtkWidgetClass::adjust_size_request virtual method and by any GtkSizeGroups that have been applied. That is, the returned request is the one that should be used for layout, not necessarily the one returned by the widget itself.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget instance

minimum_height

location to store the minimum height, or NULL.

[out][allow-none]

natural_height

location to store the natural height, or NULL.

[out][allow-none]

Since: 3.0

gtk_widget_get_preferred_width ()

void
gtk_widget_get_preferred_width (GtkWidget *widget,
                                gint *minimum_width,
                                gint *natural_width);

Retrieves a widget’s initial minimum and natural width.

This call is specific to height-for-width requests.

The returned request will be modified by the GtkWidgetClass::adjust_size_request virtual method and by any GtkSizeGroups that have been applied. That is, the returned request is the one that should be used for layout, not necessarily the one returned by the widget itself.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget instance

minimum_width

location to store the minimum width, or NULL.

[out][allow-none]

natural_width

location to store the natural width, or NULL.

[out][allow-none]

Since: 3.0

gtk_widget_get_preferred_height_for_width ()

void
gtk_widget_get_preferred_height_for_width
                               (GtkWidget *widget,
                                gint width,
                                gint *minimum_height,
                                gint *natural_height);

Retrieves a widget’s minimum and natural height if it would be given the specified width .

The returned request will be modified by the GtkWidgetClass::adjust_size_request virtual method and by any GtkSizeGroups that have been applied. That is, the returned request is the one that should be used for layout, not necessarily the one returned by the widget itself.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget instance

width

the width which is available for allocation

minimum_height

location for storing the minimum height, or NULL.

[out][allow-none]

natural_height

location for storing the natural height, or NULL.

[out][allow-none]

Since: 3.0

gtk_widget_get_preferred_width_for_height ()

void
gtk_widget_get_preferred_width_for_height
                               (GtkWidget *widget,
                                gint height,
                                gint *minimum_width,
                                gint *natural_width);

Retrieves a widget’s minimum and natural width if it would be given the specified height .

The returned request will be modified by the GtkWidgetClass::adjust_size_request virtual method and by any GtkSizeGroups that have been applied. That is, the returned request is the one that should be used for layout, not necessarily the one returned by the widget itself.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget instance

height

the height which is available for allocation

minimum_width

location for storing the minimum width, or NULL.

[out][allow-none]

natural_width

location for storing the natural width, or NULL.

[out][allow-none]

Since: 3.0

gtk_widget_get_preferred_height_and_baseline_for_width ()

void
gtk_widget_get_preferred_height_and_baseline_for_width
                               (GtkWidget *widget,
                                gint width,
                                gint *minimum_height,
                                gint *natural_height,
                                gint *minimum_baseline,
                                gint *natural_baseline);

Retrieves a widget’s minimum and natural height and the corresponding baselines if it would be given the specified width , or the default height if width is -1. The baselines may be -1 which means that no baseline is requested for this widget.

The returned request will be modified by the GtkWidgetClass::adjust_size_request and GtkWidgetClass::adjust_baseline_request virtual methods and by any GtkSizeGroups that have been applied. That is, the returned request is the one that should be used for layout, not necessarily the one returned by the widget itself.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget instance

width

the width which is available for allocation, or -1 if none

minimum_height

location for storing the minimum height, or NULL.

[out][allow-none]

natural_height

location for storing the natural height, or NULL.

[out][allow-none]

minimum_baseline

location for storing the baseline for the minimum height, or NULL.

[out][allow-none]

natural_baseline

location for storing the baseline for the natural height, or NULL.

[out][allow-none]

Since: 3.10

gtk_widget_get_request_mode ()

GtkSizeRequestMode
gtk_widget_get_request_mode (GtkWidget *widget);

Gets whether the widget prefers a height-for-width layout or a width-for-height layout.

GtkBin widgets generally propagate the preference of their child, container widgets need to request something either in context of their children or in context of their allocation capabilities.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget instance

Returns

The GtkSizeRequestMode preferred by widget .

Since: 3.0

gtk_widget_get_preferred_size ()

void
gtk_widget_get_preferred_size (GtkWidget *widget,
                               GtkRequisition *minimum_size,
                               GtkRequisition *natural_size);

Retrieves the minimum and natural size of a widget, taking into account the widget’s preference for height-for-width management.

This is used to retrieve a suitable size by container widgets which do not impose any restrictions on the child placement. It can be used to deduce toplevel window and menu sizes as well as child widgets in free-form containers such as GtkLayout.

Handle with care. Note that the natural height of a height-for-width widget will generally be a smaller size than the minimum height, since the required height for the natural width is generally smaller than the required height for the minimum width.

Use gtk_widget_get_preferred_height_and_baseline_for_width() if you want to support baseline alignment.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget instance

minimum_size

location for storing the minimum size, or NULL.

[out][allow-none]

natural_size

location for storing the natural size, or NULL.

[out][allow-none]

Since: 3.0

gtk_distribute_natural_allocation ()

gint
gtk_distribute_natural_allocation (gint extra_space,
                                   guint n_requested_sizes,
                                   GtkRequestedSize *sizes);

Distributes extra_space to child sizes by bringing smaller children up to natural size first.

The remaining space will be added to the minimum_size member of the GtkRequestedSize struct. If all sizes reach their natural size then the remaining space is returned.

Parameters

extra_space

Extra space to redistribute among children after subtracting minimum sizes and any child padding from the overall allocation

n_requested_sizes

Number of requests to fit into the allocation

sizes

An array of structs with a client pointer and a minimum/natural size in the orientation of the allocation.

Returns

The remainder of extra_space after redistributing space to sizes .

gtk_widget_get_halign ()

GtkAlign
gtk_widget_get_halign (GtkWidget *widget);

Gets the value of the “halign” property.

For backwards compatibility reasons this method will never return GTK_ALIGN_BASELINE, but instead it will convert it to GTK_ALIGN_FILL. Baselines are not supported for horizontal alignment.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

Returns

the horizontal alignment of widget

gtk_widget_set_halign ()

void
gtk_widget_set_halign (GtkWidget *widget,
                       GtkAlign align);

Sets the horizontal alignment of widget . See the “halign” property.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

align

the horizontal alignment

gtk_widget_get_valign ()

GtkAlign
gtk_widget_get_valign (GtkWidget *widget);

Gets the value of the “valign” property.

For backwards compatibility reasons this method will never return GTK_ALIGN_BASELINE, but instead it will convert it to GTK_ALIGN_FILL. If your widget want to support baseline aligned children it must use gtk_widget_get_valign_with_baseline(), or g_object_get (widget, "valign", &amp;value, NULL), which will also report the true value.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

Returns

the vertical alignment of widget , ignoring baseline alignment

gtk_widget_get_valign_with_baseline ()

GtkAlign
gtk_widget_get_valign_with_baseline (GtkWidget *widget);

Gets the value of the “valign” property, including GTK_ALIGN_BASELINE.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

Returns

the vertical alignment of widget

Since: 3.10

gtk_widget_set_valign ()

void
gtk_widget_set_valign (GtkWidget *widget,
                       GtkAlign align);

Sets the vertical alignment of widget . See the “valign” property.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

align

the vertical alignment

gtk_widget_get_margin_left ()

gint
gtk_widget_get_margin_left (GtkWidget *widget);

gtk_widget_get_margin_left has been deprecated since version 3.12 and should not be used in newly-written code.

Use gtk_widget_get_margin_start() instead.

Gets the value of the “margin-left” property.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

Returns

The left margin of widget

Since: 3.0

gtk_widget_set_margin_left ()

void
gtk_widget_set_margin_left (GtkWidget *widget,
                            gint margin);

gtk_widget_set_margin_left has been deprecated since version 3.12 and should not be used in newly-written code.

Use gtk_widget_set_margin_start() instead.

Sets the left margin of widget . See the “margin-left” property.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

margin

the left margin

Since: 3.0

gtk_widget_get_margin_right ()

gint
gtk_widget_get_margin_right (GtkWidget *widget);

gtk_widget_get_margin_right has been deprecated since version 3.12 and should not be used in newly-written code.

Use gtk_widget_get_margin_end() instead.

Gets the value of the “margin-right” property.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

Returns

The right margin of widget

Since: 3.0

gtk_widget_set_margin_right ()

void
gtk_widget_set_margin_right (GtkWidget *widget,
                             gint margin);

gtk_widget_set_margin_right has been deprecated since version 3.12 and should not be used in newly-written code.

Use gtk_widget_set_margin_end() instead.

Sets the right margin of widget . See the “margin-right” property.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

margin

the right margin

Since: 3.0

gtk_widget_get_margin_start ()

gint
gtk_widget_get_margin_start (GtkWidget *widget);

Gets the value of the “margin-start” property.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

Returns

The start margin of widget

Since: 3.12

gtk_widget_set_margin_start ()

void
gtk_widget_set_margin_start (GtkWidget *widget,
                             gint margin);

Sets the start margin of widget . See the “margin-start” property.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

margin

the start margin

Since: 3.12

gtk_widget_get_margin_end ()

gint
gtk_widget_get_margin_end (GtkWidget *widget);

Gets the value of the “margin-end” property.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

Returns

The end margin of widget

Since: 3.12

gtk_widget_set_margin_end ()

void
gtk_widget_set_margin_end (GtkWidget *widget,
                           gint margin);

Sets the end margin of widget . See the “margin-end” property.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

margin

the end margin

Since: 3.12

gtk_widget_get_margin_top ()

gint
gtk_widget_get_margin_top (GtkWidget *widget);

Gets the value of the “margin-top” property.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

Returns

The top margin of widget

Since: 3.0

gtk_widget_set_margin_top ()

void
gtk_widget_set_margin_top (GtkWidget *widget,
                           gint margin);

Sets the top margin of widget . See the “margin-top” property.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

margin

the top margin

Since: 3.0

gtk_widget_get_margin_bottom ()

gint
gtk_widget_get_margin_bottom (GtkWidget *widget);

Gets the value of the “margin-bottom” property.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

Returns

The bottom margin of widget

Since: 3.0

gtk_widget_set_margin_bottom ()

void
gtk_widget_set_margin_bottom (GtkWidget *widget,
                              gint margin);

Sets the bottom margin of widget . See the “margin-bottom” property.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

margin

the bottom margin

Since: 3.0

gtk_widget_get_hexpand ()

gboolean
gtk_widget_get_hexpand (GtkWidget *widget);

Gets whether the widget would like any available extra horizontal space. When a user resizes a GtkWindow, widgets with expand=TRUE generally receive the extra space. For example, a list or scrollable area or document in your window would often be set to expand.

Containers should use gtk_widget_compute_expand() rather than this function, to see whether a widget, or any of its children, has the expand flag set. If any child of a widget wants to expand, the parent may ask to expand also.

This function only looks at the widget’s own hexpand flag, rather than computing whether the entire widget tree rooted at this widget wants to expand.

Parameters

widget

the widget

Returns

whether hexpand flag is set

gtk_widget_set_hexpand ()

void
gtk_widget_set_hexpand (GtkWidget *widget,
                        gboolean expand);

Sets whether the widget would like any available extra horizontal space. When a user resizes a GtkWindow, widgets with expand=TRUE generally receive the extra space. For example, a list or scrollable area or document in your window would often be set to expand.

Call this function to set the expand flag if you would like your widget to become larger horizontally when the window has extra room.

By default, widgets automatically expand if any of their children want to expand. (To see if a widget will automatically expand given its current children and state, call gtk_widget_compute_expand(). A container can decide how the expandability of children affects the expansion of the container by overriding the compute_expand virtual method on GtkWidget.).

Setting hexpand explicitly with this function will override the automatic expand behavior.

This function forces the widget to expand or not to expand, regardless of children. The override occurs because gtk_widget_set_hexpand() sets the hexpand-set property (see gtk_widget_set_hexpand_set()) which causes the widget’s hexpand value to be used, rather than looking at children and widget state.

Parameters

widget

the widget

expand

whether to expand

gtk_widget_get_hexpand_set ()

gboolean
gtk_widget_get_hexpand_set (GtkWidget *widget);

Gets whether gtk_widget_set_hexpand() has been used to explicitly set the expand flag on this widget.

If hexpand is set, then it overrides any computed expand value based on child widgets. If hexpand is not set, then the expand value depends on whether any children of the widget would like to expand.

There are few reasons to use this function, but it’s here for completeness and consistency.

Parameters

widget

the widget

Returns

whether hexpand has been explicitly set

gtk_widget_set_hexpand_set ()

void
gtk_widget_set_hexpand_set (GtkWidget *widget,
                            gboolean set);

Sets whether the hexpand flag (see gtk_widget_get_hexpand()) will be used.

The hexpand-set property will be set automatically when you call gtk_widget_set_hexpand() to set hexpand, so the most likely reason to use this function would be to unset an explicit expand flag.

If hexpand is set, then it overrides any computed expand value based on child widgets. If hexpand is not set, then the expand value depends on whether any children of the widget would like to expand.

There are few reasons to use this function, but it’s here for completeness and consistency.

Parameters

widget

the widget

set

value for hexpand-set property

gtk_widget_get_vexpand ()

gboolean
gtk_widget_get_vexpand (GtkWidget *widget);

Gets whether the widget would like any available extra vertical space.

See gtk_widget_get_hexpand() for more detail.

Parameters

widget

the widget

Returns

whether vexpand flag is set

gtk_widget_set_vexpand ()

void
gtk_widget_set_vexpand (GtkWidget *widget,
                        gboolean expand);

Sets whether the widget would like any available extra vertical space.

See gtk_widget_set_hexpand() for more detail.

Parameters

widget

the widget

expand

whether to expand

gtk_widget_get_vexpand_set ()

gboolean
gtk_widget_get_vexpand_set (GtkWidget *widget);

Gets whether gtk_widget_set_vexpand() has been used to explicitly set the expand flag on this widget.

See gtk_widget_get_hexpand_set() for more detail.

Parameters

widget

the widget

Returns

whether vexpand has been explicitly set

gtk_widget_set_vexpand_set ()

void
gtk_widget_set_vexpand_set (GtkWidget *widget,
                            gboolean set);

Sets whether the vexpand flag (see gtk_widget_get_vexpand()) will be used.

See gtk_widget_set_hexpand_set() for more detail.

Parameters

widget

the widget

set

value for vexpand-set property

gtk_widget_queue_compute_expand ()

void
gtk_widget_queue_compute_expand (GtkWidget *widget);

Mark widget as needing to recompute its expand flags. Call this function when setting legacy expand child properties on the child of a container.

See gtk_widget_compute_expand().

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

gtk_widget_compute_expand ()

gboolean
gtk_widget_compute_expand (GtkWidget *widget,
                           GtkOrientation orientation);

Computes whether a container should give this widget extra space when possible. Containers should check this, rather than looking at gtk_widget_get_hexpand() or gtk_widget_get_vexpand().

This function already checks whether the widget is visible, so visibility does not need to be checked separately. Non-visible widgets are not expanded.

The computed expand value uses either the expand setting explicitly set on the widget itself, or, if none has been explicitly set, the widget may expand if some of its children do.

Parameters

widget

the widget

orientation

expand direction

Returns

whether widget tree rooted here should be expanded

gtk_widget_init_template ()

void
gtk_widget_init_template (GtkWidget *widget);

Creates and initializes child widgets defined in templates. This function must be called in the instance initializer for any class which assigned itself a template using gtk_widget_class_set_template()

It is important to call this function in the instance initializer of a GtkWidget subclass and not in GObject.constructed() or GObject.constructor() for two reasons.

One reason is that generally derived widgets will assume that parent class composite widgets have been created in their instance initializers.

Another reason is that when calling g_object_new() on a widget with composite templates, it’s important to build the composite widgets before the construct properties are set. Properties passed to g_object_new() should take precedence over properties set in the private template XML.

Parameters

widget

a GtkWidget

Since: 3.10

gtk_widget_class_set_template ()

void
gtk_widget_class_set_template (GtkWidgetClass *widget_class,
                               GBytes *template_bytes);

This should be called at class initialization time to specify the GtkBuilder XML to be used to extend a widget.

For convenience, gtk_widget_class_set_template_from_resource() is also provided.

Note that any class that installs templates must call gtk_widget_init_template() in the widget’s instance initializer.

Parameters

widget_class

A GtkWidgetClass

template_bytes

A GBytes holding the GtkBuilder XML

Since: 3.10

gtk_widget_class_set_template_from_resource ()

void
gtk_widget_class_set_template_from_resource
                               (GtkWidgetClass *widget_class,
                                const gchar *resource_name);

A convenience function to call gtk_widget_class_set_template().

Note that any class that installs templates must call gtk_widget_init_template() in the widget’s instance initializer.

Parameters

widget_class

A GtkWidgetClass

resource_name

The name of the resource to load the template from

Since: 3.10

gtk_widget_get_template_child ()

GObject *
gtk_widget_get_template_child (GtkWidget *widget,
                               GType widget_type,
                               const gchar *name);

Fetch an object build from the template XML for widget_type in this widget instance.

This will only report children which were previously declared with gtk_widget_class_bind_template_child_full() or one of its variants.

This function is only meant to be called for code which is private to the widget_type which declared the child and is meant for language bindings which cannot easily make use of the GObject structure offsets.

Parameters

widget

A GtkWidget

widget_type

The GType to get a template child for

name

The “id” of the child defined in the template XML

Returns

The object built in the template XML with the id name .

[transfer none]

gtk_widget_class_bind_template_child()

#define             gtk_widget_class_bind_template_child(widget_class, TypeName, member_name)

Binds a child widget defined in a template to the widget_class .

This macro is a convenience wrapper around the gtk_widget_class_bind_template_child_full() function.

This macro will use the offset of the member_name inside the TypeName instance structure.

Parameters

widget_class

a GtkWidgetClass

TypeName

the type name of this widget

member_name

name of the instance member in the instance struct for data_type

Since: 3.10

gtk_widget_class_bind_template_child_internal()

#define             gtk_widget_class_bind_template_child_internal(widget_class, TypeName, member_name)

Binds a child widget defined in a template to the widget_class , and also makes it available as an internal child in GtkBuilder, under the name member_name .

This macro is a convenience wrapper around the gtk_widget_class_bind_template_child_full() function.

This macro will use the offset of the member_name inside the TypeName instance structure.

Parameters

widget_class

a GtkWidgetClass

TypeName

the type name, in CamelCase

member_name

name of the instance member in the instance struct for data_type

Since: 3.10

gtk_widget_class_bind_template_child_private()

#define             gtk_widget_class_bind_template_child_private(widget_class, TypeName, member_name)

Binds a child widget defined in a template to the widget_class .

This macro is a convenience wrapper around the gtk_widget_class_bind_template_child_full() function.

This macro will use the offset of the member_name inside the TypeName private data structure (it uses G_PRIVATE_OFFSET(), so the private struct must be added with G_ADD_PRIVATE()).

Parameters

widget_class

a GtkWidgetClass

TypeName

the type name of this widget

member_name

name of the instance private member in the private struct for data_type

Since: 3.10

gtk_widget_class_bind_template_child_internal_private()

#define             gtk_widget_class_bind_template_child_internal_private(widget_class, TypeName, member_name)

Binds a child widget defined in a template to the widget_class , and also makes it available as an internal child in GtkBuilder, under the name member_name .

This macro is a convenience wrapper around the gtk_widget_class_bind_template_child_full() function.

This macro will use the offset of the member_name inside the TypeName private data structure.

Parameters

widget_class

a GtkWidgetClass

TypeName

the type name, in CamelCase

member_name

name of the instance private member on the private struct for data_type

Since: 3.10

gtk_widget_class_bind_template_child_full ()

void
gtk_widget_class_bind_template_child_full
                               (GtkWidgetClass *widget_class,
                                const gchar *name,
                                gboolean internal_child,
                                gssize struct_offset);

Automatically assign an object declared in the class template XML to be set to a location on a freshly built instance’s private data, or alternatively accessible via gtk_widget_get_template_child().

The struct can point either into the public instance, then you should use G_STRUCT_OFFSET(WidgetType, member) for struct_offset , or in the private struct, then you should use G_PRIVATE_OFFSET(WidgetType, member).

An explicit strong reference will be held automatically for the duration of your instance’s life cycle, it will be released automatically when GObjectClass.dispose() runs on your instance and if a struct_offset that is != 0 is specified, then the automatic location in your instance public or private data will be set to NULL. You can however access an automated child pointer the first time your classes GObjectClass.dispose() runs, or alternatively in GtkWidgetClass.destroy().

If internal_child is specified, GtkBuildableIface.get_internal_child() will be automatically implemented by the GtkWidget class so there is no need to implement it manually.

The wrapper macros gtk_widget_class_bind_template_child(), gtk_widget_class_bind_template_child_internal(), gtk_widget_class_bind_template_child_private() and gtk_widget_class_bind_template_child_internal_private() might be more convenient to use.

Note that this must be called from a composite widget classes class initializer after calling gtk_widget_class_set_template().

Parameters

widget_class

A GtkWidgetClass

name

The “id” of the child defined in the template XML

internal_child

Whether the child should be accessible as an “internal-child” when this class is used in GtkBuilder XML

struct_offset

The structure offset into the composite widget’s instance public or private structure where the automated child pointer should be set, or 0 to not assign the pointer.

Since: 3.10

gtk_widget_class_bind_template_callback()

#define             gtk_widget_class_bind_template_callback(widget_class, callback)

Binds a callback function defined in a template to the widget_class .

This macro is a convenience wrapper around the gtk_widget_class_bind_template_callback_full() function.

Parameters

widget_class

a GtkWidgetClass

callback

the callback symbol

Since: 3.10

gtk_widget_class_bind_template_callback_full ()

void
gtk_widget_class_bind_template_callback_full
                               (GtkWidgetClass *widget_class,
                                const gchar *callback_name,
                                GCallback callback_symbol);

Declares a callback_symbol to handle callback_name from the template XML defined for widget_type . See gtk_builder_add_callback_symbol().

Note that this must be called from a composite widget classes class initializer after calling gtk_widget_class_set_template().

Parameters

widget_class

A GtkWidgetClass

callback_name

The name of the callback as expected in the template XML

callback_symbol

The callback symbol.

[scope async]

Since: 3.10

gtk_widget_class_set_connect_func ()

void
gtk_widget_class_set_connect_func (GtkWidgetClass *widget_class,
                                   GtkBuilderConnectFunc connect_func,
                                   gpointer connect_data,
                                   GDestroyNotify connect_data_destroy);

For use in language bindings, this will override the default GtkBuilderConnectFunc to be used when parsing GtkBuilder XML from this class’s template data.

Note that this must be called from a composite widget classes class initializer after calling gtk_widget_class_set_template().

Parameters

widget_class

A GtkWidgetClass

connect_func

The GtkBuilderConnectFunc to use when connecting signals in the class template

connect_data

The data to pass to connect_func

connect_data_destroy

The GDestroyNotify to free connect_data , this will only be used at class finalization time, when no classes of type widget_type are in use anymore.

Since: 3.10

Types and Values

GtkWidget

typedef struct _GtkWidget GtkWidget;

struct GtkWidgetClass

struct GtkWidgetClass {
  GInitiallyUnownedClass parent_class;

  guint activate_signal;

  /* seldomly overidden */
  void (*dispatch_child_properties_changed) (GtkWidget   *widget,
					     guint        n_pspecs,
					     GParamSpec **pspecs);

  /* basics */
  void (* destroy)             (GtkWidget        *widget);
  void (* show)		       (GtkWidget        *widget);
  void (* show_all)            (GtkWidget        *widget);
  void (* hide)		       (GtkWidget        *widget);
  void (* map)		       (GtkWidget        *widget);
  void (* unmap)	       (GtkWidget        *widget);
  void (* realize)	       (GtkWidget        *widget);
  void (* unrealize)	       (GtkWidget        *widget);
  void (* size_allocate)       (GtkWidget        *widget,
				GtkAllocation    *allocation);
  void (* state_changed)       (GtkWidget        *widget,
				GtkStateType   	  previous_state);
  void (* state_flags_changed) (GtkWidget        *widget,
				GtkStateFlags  	  previous_state_flags);
  void (* parent_set)	       (GtkWidget        *widget,
				GtkWidget        *previous_parent);
  void (* hierarchy_changed)   (GtkWidget        *widget,
				GtkWidget        *previous_toplevel);
  void (* style_set)	       (GtkWidget        *widget,
				GtkStyle         *previous_style);
  void (* direction_changed)   (GtkWidget        *widget,
				GtkTextDirection  previous_direction);
  void (* grab_notify)         (GtkWidget        *widget,
				gboolean          was_grabbed);
  void (* child_notify)        (GtkWidget	 *widget,
				GParamSpec       *child_property);
  gboolean (* draw)	       (GtkWidget	 *widget,
                                cairo_t          *cr);

  /* size requests */
  GtkSizeRequestMode (* get_request_mode)               (GtkWidget      *widget);

  void               (* get_preferred_height)           (GtkWidget       *widget,
                                                         gint            *minimum_height,
                                                         gint            *natural_height);
  void               (* get_preferred_width_for_height) (GtkWidget       *widget,
                                                         gint             height,
                                                         gint            *minimum_width,
                                                         gint            *natural_width);
  void               (* get_preferred_width)            (GtkWidget       *widget,
                                                         gint            *minimum_width,
                                                         gint            *natural_width);
  void               (* get_preferred_height_for_width) (GtkWidget       *widget,
                                                         gint             width,
                                                         gint            *minimum_height,
                                                         gint            *natural_height);

  /* Mnemonics */
  gboolean (* mnemonic_activate)        (GtkWidget           *widget,
                                         gboolean             group_cycling);

  /* explicit focus */
  void     (* grab_focus)               (GtkWidget           *widget);
  gboolean (* focus)                    (GtkWidget           *widget,
                                         GtkDirectionType     direction);

  /* keyboard navigation */
  void     (* move_focus)               (GtkWidget           *widget,
                                         GtkDirectionType     direction);
  gboolean (* keynav_failed)            (GtkWidget           *widget,
                                         GtkDirectionType     direction);

  /* events */
  gboolean (* event)			(GtkWidget	     *widget,
					 GdkEvent	     *event);
  gboolean (* button_press_event) (GtkWidget	     *widget,
					 GdkEventButton      *event);
  gboolean (* button_release_event) (GtkWidget	     *widget,
					 GdkEventButton      *event);
  gboolean (* scroll_event)		(GtkWidget           *widget,
					 GdkEventScroll      *event);
  gboolean (* motion_notify_event) (GtkWidget	     *widget,
					 GdkEventMotion      *event);
  gboolean (* delete_event)		(GtkWidget	     *widget,
					 GdkEventAny	     *event);
  gboolean (* destroy_event)		(GtkWidget	     *widget,
					 GdkEventAny	     *event);
  gboolean (* key_press_event)		(GtkWidget	     *widget,
					 GdkEventKey	     *event);
  gboolean (* key_release_event) (GtkWidget	     *widget,
					 GdkEventKey	     *event);
  gboolean (* enter_notify_event) (GtkWidget	     *widget,
					 GdkEventCrossing    *event);
  gboolean (* leave_notify_event) (GtkWidget	     *widget,
					 GdkEventCrossing    *event);
  gboolean (* configure_event)		(GtkWidget	     *widget,
					 GdkEventConfigure   *event);
  gboolean (* focus_in_event)		(GtkWidget	     *widget,
					 GdkEventFocus       *event);
  gboolean (* focus_out_event)		(GtkWidget	     *widget,
					 GdkEventFocus       *event);
  gboolean (* map_event)		(GtkWidget	     *widget,
					 GdkEventAny	     *event);
  gboolean (* unmap_event)		(GtkWidget	     *widget,
					 GdkEventAny	     *event);
  gboolean (* property_notify_event) (GtkWidget	     *widget,
					 GdkEventProperty    *event);
  gboolean (* selection_clear_event) (GtkWidget	     *widget,
					 GdkEventSelection   *event);
  gboolean (* selection_request_event) (GtkWidget	     *widget,
					 GdkEventSelection   *event);
  gboolean (* selection_notify_event) (GtkWidget	     *widget,
					 GdkEventSelection   *event);
  gboolean (* proximity_in_event) (GtkWidget	     *widget,
					 GdkEventProximity   *event);
  gboolean (* proximity_out_event) (GtkWidget	     *widget,
					 GdkEventProximity   *event);
  gboolean (* visibility_notify_event) (GtkWidget	     *widget,
					 GdkEventVisibility  *event);
  gboolean (* window_state_event) (GtkWidget	     *widget,
					 GdkEventWindowState *event);
  gboolean (* damage_event)             (GtkWidget           *widget,
                                         GdkEventExpose      *event);
  gboolean (* grab_broken_event)        (GtkWidget           *widget,
                                         GdkEventGrabBroken  *event);

  /* selection */
  void     (* selection_get)       (GtkWidget          *widget,
				    GtkSelectionData   *selection_data,
				    guint               info,
				    guint               time_);
  void     (* selection_received)  (GtkWidget          *widget,
				    GtkSelectionData   *selection_data,
				    guint               time_);

  /* Source side drag signals */
  void     (* drag_begin)          (GtkWidget         *widget,
				    GdkDragContext     *context);
  void     (* drag_end)	           (GtkWidget	       *widget,
				    GdkDragContext     *context);
  void     (* drag_data_get)       (GtkWidget          *widget,
				    GdkDragContext     *context,
				    GtkSelectionData   *selection_data,
				    guint               info,
				    guint               time_);
  void     (* drag_data_delete)    (GtkWidget          *widget,
				    GdkDragContext     *context);

  /* Target side drag signals */
  void     (* drag_leave)          (GtkWidget          *widget,
				    GdkDragContext     *context,
				    guint               time_);
  gboolean (* drag_motion)         (GtkWidget	       *widget,
				    GdkDragContext     *context,
				    gint                x,
				    gint                y,
				    guint               time_);
  gboolean (* drag_drop)           (GtkWidget	       *widget,
				    GdkDragContext     *context,
				    gint                x,
				    gint                y,
				    guint               time_);
  void     (* drag_data_received)  (GtkWidget          *widget,
				    GdkDragContext     *context,
				    gint                x,
				    gint                y,
				    GtkSelectionData   *selection_data,
				    guint               info,
				    guint               time_);
  gboolean (* drag_failed)         (GtkWidget          *widget,
                                    GdkDragContext     *context,
                                    GtkDragResult       result);

  /* Signals used only for keybindings */
  gboolean (* popup_menu)          (GtkWidget          *widget);

  /* If a widget has multiple tooltips/whatsthis, it should show the
   * one for the current focus location, or if that doesn't make
   * sense, should cycle through them showing each tip alongside
   * whatever piece of the widget it applies to.
   */
  gboolean (* show_help)           (GtkWidget          *widget,
                                    GtkWidgetHelpType   help_type);

  /* accessibility support
   */
  AtkObject *  (* get_accessible)     (GtkWidget *widget);

  void         (* screen_changed)     (GtkWidget *widget,
                                       GdkScreen *previous_screen);
  gboolean     (* can_activate_accel) (GtkWidget *widget,
                                       guint      signal_id);

  void         (* composited_changed) (GtkWidget *widget);

  gboolean     (* query_tooltip)      (GtkWidget  *widget,
				       gint        x,
				       gint        y,
				       gboolean    keyboard_tooltip,
				       GtkTooltip *tooltip);

  void         (* compute_expand)     (GtkWidget  *widget,
                                       gboolean   *hexpand_p,
                                       gboolean   *vexpand_p);

  void         (* adjust_size_request)    (GtkWidget         *widget,
                                           GtkOrientation     orientation,
                                           gint              *minimum_size,
                                           gint              *natural_size);
  void         (* adjust_size_allocation) (GtkWidget         *widget,
                                           GtkOrientation     orientation,
                                           gint              *minimum_size,
                                           gint              *natural_size,
                                           gint              *allocated_pos,
                                           gint              *allocated_size);

  void         (* style_updated)          (GtkWidget *widget);

  gboolean     (* touch_event)            (GtkWidget     *widget,
                                           GdkEventTouch *event);

  void         (* get_preferred_height_and_baseline_for_width)  (GtkWidget     *widget,
								 gint           width,
								 gint          *minimum_height,
								 gint          *natural_height,
								 gint          *minimum_baseline,
								 gint          *natural_baseline);
  void         (* adjust_baseline_request)(GtkWidget         *widget,
                                           gint              *minimum_baseline,
                                           gint              *natural_baseline);
  void         (* adjust_baseline_allocation) (GtkWidget         *widget,
					       gint              *baseline);
  void         (*queue_draw_region)           (GtkWidget         *widget,
					       const cairo_region_t *region);
};

Members

guint activate_signal;

The signal to emit when a widget of this class is activated, gtk_widget_activate() handles the emission. Implementation of this signal is optional.

dispatch_child_properties_changed ()

Seldomly overidden.

destroy ()

Signals that all holders of a reference to the widget should release the reference that they hold.

show ()

Signal emitted when widget is shown

show_all ()

Recursively shows a widget, and any child widgets (if the widget is a container).

hide ()

Signal emitted when widget is hidden.

map ()

Signal emitted when widget is going to be mapped, that is when the widget is visible (which is controlled with gtk_widget_set_visible()) and all its parents up to the toplevel widget are also visible.

unmap ()

Signal emitted when widget is going to be unmapped, which means that either it or any of its parents up to the toplevel widget have been set as hidden.

realize ()

Signal emitted when widget is associated with a GdkWindow, which means that gtk_widget_realize() has been called or the widget has been mapped (that is, it is going to be drawn).

unrealize ()

Signal emitted when the GdkWindow associated with widget is destroyed, which means that gtk_widget_unrealize() has been called or the widget has been unmapped (that is, it is going to be hidden).

size_allocate ()

Signal emitted to get the widget allocation.

state_changed ()

Signal emitted when the widget state changes. Deprecated: 3.0

state_flags_changed ()

Signal emitted when the widget state changes, see gtk_widget_get_state_flags().

parent_set ()

Signal emitted when a new parent has been set on a widget.

hierarchy_changed ()

Signal emitted when the anchored state of a widget changes.

style_set ()

Signal emitted when a new style has been set on a widget. Deprecated: 3.0

direction_changed ()

Signal emitted when the text direction of a widget changes.

grab_notify ()

Signal emitted when a widget becomes shadowed by a GTK+ grab (not a pointer or keyboard grab) on another widget, or when it becomes unshadowed due to a grab being removed.

child_notify ()

Signal emitted for each child property that has changed on an object.

draw ()

Signal emitted when a widget is supposed to render itself.

get_request_mode ()

This allows a widget to tell its parent container whether it prefers to be allocated in GTK_SIZE_REQUEST_HEIGHT_FOR_WIDTH or GTK_SIZE_REQUEST_WIDTH_FOR_HEIGHT mode. GTK_SIZE_REQUEST_HEIGHT_FOR_WIDTH means the widget prefers to have GtkWidgetClass.get_preferred_width() called and then GtkWidgetClass.get_preferred_height_for_width(). GTK_SIZE_REQUEST_CONSTANT_SIZE disables any height-for-width or width-for-height geometry management for a said widget and is the default return. It’s important to note (as described below) that any widget which trades height-for-width or width-for-height must respond properly to both of the virtual methods GtkWidgetClass.get_preferred_height_for_width() and GtkWidgetClass.get_preferred_width_for_height() since it might be queried in either GtkSizeRequestMode by its parent container.

get_preferred_height ()

This is called by containers to obtain the minimum and natural height of a widget. A widget that does not actually trade any height for width or width for height only has to implement these two virtual methods (GtkWidgetClass.get_preferred_width() and GtkWidgetClass.get_preferred_height()).

get_preferred_width_for_height ()

This is analogous to GtkWidgetClass.get_preferred_height_for_width() except that it operates in the oposite orientation. It’s rare that a widget actually does GTK_SIZE_REQUEST_WIDTH_FOR_HEIGHT requests but this can happen when, for example, a widget or container gets additional columns to compensate for a smaller allocated height.

get_preferred_width ()

This is called by containers to obtain the minimum and natural width of a widget. A widget will never be allocated a width less than its minimum and will only ever be allocated a width greater than the natural width once all of the said widget’s siblings have received their natural widths. Furthermore, a widget will only ever be allocated a width greater than its natural width if it was configured to receive extra expand space from its parent container.

get_preferred_height_for_width ()

This is similar to GtkWidgetClass.get_preferred_height() except that it is passed a contextual width to request height for. By implementing this virtual method it is possible for a GtkLabel to tell its parent how much height would be required if the label were to be allocated a said width.

mnemonic_activate ()

Activates the widget if group_cycling is FALSE, and just grabs the focus if group_cycling is TRUE.

grab_focus ()

Causes widget to have the keyboard focus for the GtkWindow it’s inside.

focus ()

move_focus ()

Signal emitted when a change of focus is requested

keynav_failed ()

Signal emitted if keyboard navigation fails.

event ()

The GTK+ main loop will emit three signals for each GDK event delivered to a widget: one generic ::event signal, another, more specific, signal that matches the type of event delivered (e.g. "key-press-event") and finally a generic "event-after" signal.

button_press_event ()

Signal will be emitted when a button (typically from a mouse) is pressed.

button_release_event ()

Signal will be emitted when a button (typically from a mouse) is released.

scroll_event ()

Signal emitted when a button in the 4 to 7 range is pressed.

motion_notify_event ()

Signal emitted when the pointer moves over the widget’s GdkWindow.

delete_event ()

Signal emitted if a user requests that a toplevel window is closed.

destroy_event ()

Signal is emitted when a GdkWindow is destroyed.

key_press_event ()

Signal emitted when a key is pressed.

key_release_event ()

Signal is emitted when a key is released.

enter_notify_event ()

Signal event will be emitted when the pointer enters the widget’s window.

leave_notify_event ()

Will be emitted when the pointer leaves the widget’s window.

configure_event ()

Signal will be emitted when the size, position or stacking of the widget’s window has changed.

focus_in_event ()

Signal emitted when the keyboard focus enters the widget’s window.

focus_out_event ()

Signal emitted when the keyboard focus leaves the widget’s window.

map_event ()

Signal emitted when the widget’s window is mapped.

unmap_event ()

Signal will be emitted when the widget’s window is unmapped.

property_notify_event ()

Signal will be emitted when a property on the widget’s window has been changed or deleted.

selection_clear_event ()

Signal will be emitted when the the widget’s window has lost ownership of a selection.

selection_request_event ()

Signal will be emitted when another client requests ownership of the selection owned by the widget's window.

selection_notify_event ()

proximity_in_event ()

proximity_out_event ()

visibility_notify_event ()

Signal emitted when the widget’s window is obscured or unobscured.

window_state_event ()

Signal emitted when the state of the toplevel window associated to the widget changes.

damage_event ()

Signal emitted when a redirected window belonging to widget gets drawn into.

grab_broken_event ()

Signal emitted when a pointer or keyboard grab on a window belonging to widget gets broken.

selection_get ()

selection_received ()

drag_begin ()

Signal emitted on the drag source when a drag is started.

drag_end ()

Signal emitted on the drag source when a drag is finished.

drag_data_get ()

Signal emitted on the drag source when the drop site requests the data which is dragged.

drag_data_delete ()

Signal emitted on the drag source when a drag with the action GDK_ACTION_MOVE is successfully completed.

drag_leave ()

Signal emitted on the drop site when the cursor leaves the widget.

drag_motion ()

signal emitted on the drop site when the user moves the cursor over the widget during a drag.

drag_drop ()

Signal emitted on the drop site when the user drops the data onto the widget.

drag_data_received ()

Signal emitted on the drop site when the dragged data has been received.

drag_failed ()

Signal emitted on the drag source when a drag has failed.

popup_menu ()

Signal emitted whenever a widget should pop up a context menu.

show_help ()

get_accessible ()

Returns the accessible object that describes the widget to an assistive technology.

screen_changed ()

Signal emitted when the screen of a widget has changed.

can_activate_accel ()

Signal allows applications and derived widgets to override the default GtkWidget handling for determining whether an accelerator can be activated.

composited_changed ()

Signal emitted when the composited status of widgets screen changes. See gdk_screen_is_composited().

query_tooltip ()

Signal emitted when “has-tooltip” is TRUE and the hover timeout has expired with the cursor hovering “above” widget; or emitted when widget got focus in keyboard mode.

compute_expand ()

Computes whether a container should give this widget extra space when possible.

adjust_size_request ()

Convert an initial size request from a widget's GtkSizeRequestMode virtual method implementations into a size request to be used by parent containers in laying out the widget. adjust_size_request adjusts from a child widget's original request to what a parent container should use for layout. The for_size argument will be -1 if the request should not be for a particular size in the opposing orientation, i.e. if the request is not height-for-width or width-for-height. If for_size is greater than -1, it is the proposed allocation in the opposing orientation that we need the request for. Implementations of adjust_size_request should chain up to the default implementation, which applies GtkWidget’s margin properties and imposes any values from gtk_widget_set_size_request(). Chaining up should be last, after your subclass adjusts the request, so GtkWidget can apply constraints and add the margin properly.

adjust_size_allocation ()

Convert an initial size allocation assigned by a GtkContainer using gtk_widget_size_allocate(), into an actual size allocation to be used by the widget. adjust_size_allocation adjusts to a child widget’s actual allocation from what a parent container computed for the child. The adjusted allocation must be entirely within the original allocation. In any custom implementation, chain up to the default GtkWidget implementation of this method, which applies the margin and alignment properties of GtkWidget. Chain up before performing your own adjustments so your own adjustments remove more allocation after the GtkWidget base class has already removed margin and alignment. The natural size passed in should be adjusted in the same way as the allocated size, which allows adjustments to perform alignments or other changes based on natural size.

style_updated ()

Signal emitted when the GtkStyleContext of a widget is changed.

touch_event ()

Signal emitted when a touch event happens

get_preferred_height_and_baseline_for_width ()

adjust_baseline_request ()

adjust_baseline_allocation ()

queue_draw_region ()

Invalidates the area of widget defined by region by calling gdk_window_invalidate_region() on the widget's window and all its child windows.

GtkRequisition

typedef struct {
  gint width;
  gint height;
} GtkRequisition;

A GtkRequisition represents the desired size of a widget. See GtkWidget’s geometry management section for more information.

Members

gint width;

the widget’s desired width

gint height;

the widget’s desired height

GtkAllocation

typedef 	GdkRectangle	   GtkAllocation;

A GtkAllocation of a widget represents region which has been allocated to the widget by its parent. It is a subregion of its parents allocation. See GtkWidget’s geometry management section for more information.

enum GtkWidgetHelpType

Kinds of widget-specific help. Used by the ::show-help signal.

Members

GTK_WIDGET_HELP_TOOLTIP

Tooltip.

GTK_WIDGET_HELP_WHATS_THIS

What’s this.

enum GtkTextDirection

Reading directions for text.

Members

GTK_TEXT_DIR_NONE

No direction.

GTK_TEXT_DIR_LTR

Left to right text direction.

GTK_TEXT_DIR_RTL

Right to left text direction.

enum GtkStateType

GtkStateType has been deprecated since version 3.14 and should not be used in newly-written code.

All APIs that are using this enumeration have been deprecated in favor of alternatives using GtkStateFlags.

This type indicates the current state of a widget; the state determines how the widget is drawn. The GtkStateType enumeration is also used to identify different colors in a GtkStyle for drawing, so states can be used for subparts of a widget as well as entire widgets.

Members

GTK_STATE_NORMAL

State during normal operation.

GTK_STATE_ACTIVE

State of a currently active widget, such as a depressed button.

GTK_STATE_PRELIGHT

State indicating that the mouse pointer is over the widget and the widget will respond to mouse clicks.

GTK_STATE_SELECTED

State of a selected item, such the selected row in a list.

GTK_STATE_INSENSITIVE

State indicating that the widget is unresponsive to user actions.

GTK_STATE_INCONSISTENT

The widget is inconsistent, such as checkbuttons or radiobuttons that aren’t either set to TRUE nor FALSE, or buttons requiring the user attention.

GTK_STATE_FOCUSED

The widget has the keyboard focus.

enum GtkSizeRequestMode

Specifies a preference for height-for-width or width-for-height geometry management.

Members

GTK_SIZE_REQUEST_HEIGHT_FOR_WIDTH

Prefer height-for-width geometry management

GTK_SIZE_REQUEST_WIDTH_FOR_HEIGHT

Prefer width-for-height geometry management

GTK_SIZE_REQUEST_CONSTANT_SIZE

Don’t trade height-for-width or width-for-height

struct GtkRequestedSize

struct GtkRequestedSize {
  gpointer data;
  gint     minimum_size;
  gint     natural_size;
};

Represents a request of a screen object in a given orientation. These are primarily used in container implementations when allocating a natural size for children calling. See gtk_distribute_natural_allocation().

Members

gpointer data;

A client pointer

gint minimum_size;

The minimum size needed for allocation in a given orientation

gint natural_size;

The natural size for allocation in a given orientation

enum GtkAlign

Controls how a widget deals with extra space in a single (x or y) dimension.

Alignment only matters if the widget receives a “too large” allocation, for example if you packed the widget with the “expand” flag inside a GtkBox, then the widget might get extra space. If you have for example a 16x16 icon inside a 32x32 space, the icon could be scaled and stretched, it could be centered, or it could be positioned to one side of the space.

Note that in horizontal context GTK_ALIGN_START and GTK_ALIGN_END are interpreted relative to text direction.

GTK_ALIGN_BASELINE support for it is optional for containers and widgets, and it is only supported for vertical alignment. When its not supported by a child or a container it is treated as GTK_ALIGN_FILL .

Members

GTK_ALIGN_FILL

stretch to fill all space if possible, center if no meaningful way to stretch

GTK_ALIGN_START

snap to left or top side, leaving space on right or bottom

GTK_ALIGN_END

snap to right or bottom side, leaving space on left or top

GTK_ALIGN_CENTER

center natural width of widget inside the allocation

GTK_ALIGN_BASELINE

align the widget according to the baseline. Since 3.10.

Property Details

The “app-paintable” property

  “app-paintable”            gboolean

Whether the application will paint directly on the widget.

Owner: GtkWidget

Flags: Read / Write

Default value: FALSE

The “can-default” property

  “can-default”              gboolean

Whether the widget can be the default widget.

Owner: GtkWidget

Flags: Read / Write

Default value: FALSE

The “can-focus” property

  “can-focus”                gboolean

Whether the widget can accept the input focus.

Owner: GtkWidget

Flags: Read / Write

Default value: FALSE

The “composite-child” property

  “composite-child”          gboolean

Whether the widget is part of a composite widget.

Owner: GtkWidget

Flags: Read

Default value: FALSE

The “double-buffered” property

  “double-buffered”          gboolean

Whether the widget is double buffered.

GtkWidget:double-buffered has been deprecated since version 3.14 and should not be used in newly-written code.

Widgets should not use this property.

Owner: GtkWidget

Flags: Read / Write

Default value: TRUE

Since: 2.18

The “events” property

  “events”                   GdkEventMask

The event mask that decides what kind of GdkEvents this widget gets.

Owner: GtkWidget

Flags: Read / Write

Default value: GDK_STRUCTURE_MASK

The “expand” property

  “expand”                   gboolean

Whether to expand in both directions. Setting this sets both “hexpand” and “vexpand”

Owner: GtkWidget

Flags: Read / Write

Default value: FALSE

Since: 3.0

The “focus-on-click” property

  “focus-on-click”           gboolean

Whether the widget should grab focus when it is clicked with the mouse.

This property is only relevant for widgets that can take focus.

Before 3.20, several widgets (GtkButton, GtkFileChooserButton, GtkComboBox) implemented this property individually.

Owner: GtkWidget

Flags: Read / Write

Default value: TRUE

Since: 3.20

The “halign” property

  “halign”                   GtkAlign

How to distribute horizontal space if widget gets extra space, see GtkAlign

Owner: GtkWidget

Flags: Read / Write

Default value: GTK_ALIGN_FILL

Since: 3.0

The “has-default” property

  “has-default”              gboolean

Whether the widget is the default widget.

Owner: GtkWidget

Flags: Read / Write

Default value: FALSE

The “has-focus” property

  “has-focus”                gboolean

Whether the widget has the input focus.

Owner: GtkWidget

Flags: Read / Write

Default value: FALSE

The “has-tooltip” property

  “has-tooltip”              gboolean

Enables or disables the emission of “query-tooltip” on widget . A value of TRUE indicates that widget can have a tooltip, in this case the widget will be queried using “query-tooltip” to determine whether it will provide a tooltip or not.

Note that setting this property to TRUE for the first time will change the event masks of the GdkWindows of this widget to include leave-notify and motion-notify events. This cannot and will not be undone when the property is set to FALSE again.

Owner: GtkWidget

Flags: Read / Write

Default value: FALSE

Since: 2.12

The “height-request” property

  “height-request”           int

Override for height request of the widget, or -1 if natural request should be used.

Owner: GtkWidget

Flags: Read / Write

Allowed values: >= -1

Default value: -1

The “hexpand” property

  “hexpand”                  gboolean

Whether to expand horizontally. See gtk_widget_set_hexpand().

Owner: GtkWidget

Flags: Read / Write

Default value: FALSE

Since: 3.0

The “hexpand-set” property

  “hexpand-set”              gboolean

Whether to use the “hexpand” property. See gtk_widget_get_hexpand_set().

Owner: GtkWidget

Flags: Read / Write

Default value: FALSE

Since: 3.0

The “is-focus” property

  “is-focus”                 gboolean

Whether the widget is the focus widget within the toplevel.

Owner: GtkWidget

Flags: Read / Write

Default value: FALSE

The “margin” property

  “margin”                   int

Sets all four sides' margin at once. If read, returns max margin on any side.

Owner: GtkWidget

Flags: Read / Write

Allowed values: [0,32767]

Default value: 0

Since: 3.0

The “margin-bottom” property

  “margin-bottom”            int

Margin on bottom side of widget.

This property adds margin outside of the widget's normal size request, the margin will be added in addition to the size from gtk_widget_set_size_request() for example.

Owner: GtkWidget

Flags: Read / Write

Allowed values: [0,32767]

Default value: 0

Since: 3.0

The “margin-end” property

  “margin-end”               int

Margin on end of widget, horizontally. This property supports left-to-right and right-to-left text directions.

This property adds margin outside of the widget's normal size request, the margin will be added in addition to the size from gtk_widget_set_size_request() for example.

Owner: GtkWidget

Flags: Read / Write

Allowed values: [0,32767]

Default value: 0

Since: 3.12

The “margin-left” property

  “margin-left”              int

Margin on left side of widget.

This property adds margin outside of the widget's normal size request, the margin will be added in addition to the size from gtk_widget_set_size_request() for example.

GtkWidget:margin-left has been deprecated since version 3.12 and should not be used in newly-written code.

Use “margin-start” instead.

Owner: GtkWidget

Flags: Read / Write

Allowed values: [0,32767]

Default value: 0

Since: 3.0

The “margin-right” property

  “margin-right”             int

Margin on right side of widget.

This property adds margin outside of the widget's normal size request, the margin will be added in addition to the size from gtk_widget_set_size_request() for example.

GtkWidget:margin-right has been deprecated since version 3.12 and should not be used in newly-written code.

Use “margin-end” instead.

Owner: GtkWidget

Flags: Read / Write

Allowed values: [0,32767]

Default value: 0

Since: 3.0

The “margin-start” property

  “margin-start”             int

Margin on start of widget, horizontally. This property supports left-to-right and right-to-left text directions.

This property adds margin outside of the widget's normal size request, the margin will be added in addition to the size from gtk_widget_set_size_request() for example.

Owner: GtkWidget

Flags: Read / Write

Allowed values: [0,32767]

Default value: 0

Since: 3.12

The “margin-top” property

  “margin-top”               int

Margin on top side of widget.

This property adds margin outside of the widget's normal size request, the margin will be added in addition to the size from gtk_widget_set_size_request() for example.

Owner: GtkWidget

Flags: Read / Write

Allowed values: [0,32767]

Default value: 0

Since: 3.0

The “name” property

  “name”                     char *

The name of the widget.

Owner: GtkWidget

Flags: Read / Write

Default value: NULL

The “no-show-all” property

  “no-show-all”              gboolean

Whether gtk_widget_show_all() should not affect this widget.

Owner: GtkWidget

Flags: Read / Write

Default value: FALSE

The “opacity” property

  “opacity”                  double

The requested opacity of the widget. See gtk_widget_set_opacity() for more details about window opacity.

Before 3.8 this was only available in GtkWindow

Owner: GtkWidget

Flags: Read / Write

Allowed values: [0,1]

Default value: 1

Since: 3.8

The “parent” property

  “parent”                   GtkContainer *

The parent widget of this widget. Must be a Container widget.

Owner: GtkWidget

Flags: Read / Write

The “receives-default” property

  “receives-default”         gboolean

If TRUE, the widget will receive the default action when it is focused.

Owner: GtkWidget

Flags: Read / Write

Default value: FALSE

The “scale-factor” property

  “scale-factor”             int

The scale factor of the widget. See gtk_widget_get_scale_factor() for more details about widget scaling.

Owner: GtkWidget

Flags: Read

Allowed values: >= 1

Default value: 1

Since: 3.10

The “sensitive” property

  “sensitive”                gboolean

Whether the widget responds to input.

Owner: GtkWidget

Flags: Read / Write

Default value: TRUE

The “style” property

  “style”                    GtkStyle *

The style of the widget, which contains information about how it will look (colors, etc).

GtkWidget:style is deprecated and should not be used in newly-written code.

Use GtkStyleContext instead

Owner: GtkWidget

Flags: Read / Write

The “tooltip-markup” property

  “tooltip-markup”           char *

Sets the text of tooltip to be the given string, which is marked up with the Pango text markup language. Also see gtk_tooltip_set_markup().

This is a convenience property which will take care of getting the tooltip shown if the given string is not NULL: “has-tooltip” will automatically be set to TRUE and there will be taken care of “query-tooltip” in the default signal handler.

Note that if both “tooltip-text” and “tooltip-markup” are set, the last one wins.

Owner: GtkWidget

Flags: Read / Write

Default value: NULL

Since: 2.12

The “tooltip-text” property

  “tooltip-text”             char *

Sets the text of tooltip to be the given string.

Also see gtk_tooltip_set_text().

This is a convenience property which will take care of getting the tooltip shown if the given string is not NULL: “has-tooltip” will automatically be set to TRUE and there will be taken care of “query-tooltip” in the default signal handler.

Note that if both “tooltip-text” and “tooltip-markup” are set, the last one wins.

Owner: GtkWidget

Flags: Read / Write

Default value: NULL

Since: 2.12

The “valign” property

  “valign”                   GtkAlign

How to distribute vertical space if widget gets extra space, see GtkAlign

Owner: GtkWidget

Flags: Read / Write

Default value: GTK_ALIGN_FILL

Since: 3.0

The “vexpand” property

  “vexpand”                  gboolean

Whether to expand vertically. See gtk_widget_set_vexpand().

Owner: GtkWidget

Flags: Read / Write

Default value: FALSE

Since: 3.0

The “vexpand-set” property

  “vexpand-set”              gboolean

Whether to use the “vexpand” property. See gtk_widget_get_vexpand_set().

Owner: GtkWidget

Flags: Read / Write

Default value: FALSE

Since: 3.0

The “visible” property

  “visible”                  gboolean

Whether the widget is visible.

Owner: GtkWidget

Flags: Read / Write

Default value: FALSE

The “width-request” property

  “width-request”            int

Override for width request of the widget, or -1 if natural request should be used.

Owner: GtkWidget

Flags: Read / Write

Allowed values: >= -1

Default value: -1

The “window” property

  “window”                   GdkWindow *

The widget's window if it is realized, NULL otherwise.

Owner: GtkWidget

Flags: Read

Since: 2.14

Style Property Details

The “cursor-aspect-ratio” style property

  “cursor-aspect-ratio”      float

Aspect ratio with which to draw insertion cursor.

Owner: GtkWidget

Flags: Read

Allowed values: [0,1]

Default value: 0.04

The “cursor-color” style property

  “cursor-color”             GdkColor *

The color with which to draw the insertion cursor in entries and text views.

GtkWidget:cursor-color has been deprecated since version 3.20 and should not be used in newly-written code.

Use the caret-color CSS property

Owner: GtkWidget

Flags: Read

The “focus-line-pattern” style property

  “focus-line-pattern”       char *

The "focus-line-pattern" style property defines the dash pattern used to draw the focus indicator. The character values are interpreted as pixel widths of alternating on and off segments of the line.

GtkWidget:focus-line-pattern has been deprecated since version 3.14 and should not be used in newly-written code.

use the outline-style CSS property instead.

Owner: GtkWidget

Flags: Read

Default value: "\001\001"

The “focus-line-width” style property

  “focus-line-width”         int

The "focus-line-width" style property defines the width, in pixels, of the focus indicator line

GtkWidget:focus-line-width has been deprecated since version 3.14 and should not be used in newly-written code.

use the outline-width and padding CSS properties instead.

Owner: GtkWidget

Flags: Read

Allowed values: >= 0

Default value: 1

The “focus-padding” style property

  “focus-padding”            int

The "focus-padding" style property defines the width, in pixels, between focus indicator and the widget 'box'.

GtkWidget:focus-padding has been deprecated since version 3.14 and should not be used in newly-written code.

use the outline-offset CSS properties instead.

Owner: GtkWidget

Flags: Read

Allowed values: >= 0

Default value: 1

The “interior-focus” style property

  “interior-focus”           gboolean

The "interior-focus" style property defines whether to draw the focus indicator inside widgets.

GtkWidget:interior-focus has been deprecated since version 3.14 and should not be used in newly-written code.

use the outline CSS properties instead.

Owner: GtkWidget

Flags: Read

Default value: TRUE

  “link-color”               GdkColor *

The "link-color" style property defines the color of unvisited links.

GtkWidget:link-color has been deprecated since version 3.12 and should not be used in newly-written code.

Links now use a separate state flags for selecting different theming, this style property is ignored

Owner: GtkWidget

Flags: Read

Since: 2.10

The “scroll-arrow-hlength” style property

  “scroll-arrow-hlength”     int

The "scroll-arrow-hlength" style property defines the length of horizontal scroll arrows.

Owner: GtkWidget

Flags: Read

Allowed values: >= 1

Default value: 16

Since: 2.10

The “scroll-arrow-vlength” style property

  “scroll-arrow-vlength”     int

The "scroll-arrow-vlength" style property defines the length of vertical scroll arrows.

Owner: GtkWidget

Flags: Read

Allowed values: >= 1

Default value: 16

Since: 2.10

The “secondary-cursor-color” style property

  “secondary-cursor-color”   GdkColor *

The color with which to draw the secondary insertion cursor in entries and text views when editing mixed right-to-left and left-to-right text.

GtkWidget:secondary-cursor-color has been deprecated since version 3.20 and should not be used in newly-written code.

Use the -gtk-secondary-caret-color CSS property

Owner: GtkWidget

Flags: Read

The “separator-height” style property

  “separator-height”         int

The "separator-height" style property defines the height of separators. This property only takes effect if the "wide-separators" style property is TRUE.

GtkWidget:separator-height has been deprecated since version 3.20 and should not be used in newly-written code.

Use the standard min-height CSS property on the separator elements to size separators; the value of this style property is ignored.

Owner: GtkWidget

Flags: Read

Allowed values: >= 0

Default value: 0

Since: 2.10

The “separator-width” style property

  “separator-width”          int

The "separator-width" style property defines the width of separators. This property only takes effect if the "wide-separators" style property is TRUE.

GtkWidget:separator-width has been deprecated since version 3.20 and should not be used in newly-written code.

Use the standard min-width CSS property on the separator elements to size separators; the value of this style property is ignored.

Owner: GtkWidget

Flags: Read

Allowed values: >= 0

Default value: 0

Since: 2.10

The “text-handle-height” style property

  “text-handle-height”       int

Height of text selection handles.

Owner: GtkWidget

Flags: Read

Allowed values: >= 1

Default value: 20

The “text-handle-width” style property

  “text-handle-width”        int

Width of text selection handles.

Owner: GtkWidget

Flags: Read

Allowed values: >= 1

Default value: 16

  “visited-link-color”       GdkColor *

The "visited-link-color" style property defines the color of visited links.

GtkWidget:visited-link-color has been deprecated since version 3.12 and should not be used in newly-written code.

Links now use a separate state flags for selecting different theming, this style property is ignored

Owner: GtkWidget

Flags: Read

Since: 2.10

The “wide-separators” style property

  “wide-separators”          gboolean

The "wide-separators" style property defines whether separators have configurable width and should be drawn using a box instead of a line.

GtkWidget:wide-separators has been deprecated since version 3.20 and should not be used in newly-written code.

Use CSS properties on the separator elements to style separators; the value of this style property is ignored.

Owner: GtkWidget

Flags: Read

Default value: FALSE

Since: 2.10

The “window-dragging” style property

  “window-dragging”          gboolean

Whether windows can be dragged and maximized by clicking on empty areas.

Owner: GtkWidget

Flags: Read

Default value: FALSE

Signal Details

The “accel-closures-changed” signal

void
user_function (GtkWidget *widget,
               gpointer   user_data)

Parameters

widget

the object which received the signal.

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

The “button-press-event” signal

gboolean
user_function (GtkWidget *widget,
               GdkEvent  *event,
               gpointer   user_data)

The ::button-press-event signal will be emitted when a button (typically from a mouse) is pressed.

To receive this signal, the GdkWindow associated to the widget needs to enable the GDK_BUTTON_PRESS_MASK mask.

This signal will be sent to the grab widget if there is one.

Parameters

widget

the object which received the signal.

event

the GdkEventButton which triggered this signal.

[type Gdk.EventButton]

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

Returns

TRUE to stop other handlers from being invoked for the event. FALSE to propagate the event further.

Flags: Run Last

The “button-release-event” signal

gboolean
user_function (GtkWidget *widget,
               GdkEvent  *event,
               gpointer   user_data)

The ::button-release-event signal will be emitted when a button (typically from a mouse) is released.

To receive this signal, the GdkWindow associated to the widget needs to enable the GDK_BUTTON_RELEASE_MASK mask.

This signal will be sent to the grab widget if there is one.

Parameters

widget

the object which received the signal.

event

the GdkEventButton which triggered this signal.

[type Gdk.EventButton]

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

Returns

TRUE to stop other handlers from being invoked for the event. FALSE to propagate the event further.

Flags: Run Last

The “can-activate-accel” signal

gboolean
user_function (GtkWidget *widget,
               guint      signal_id,
               gpointer   user_data)

Determines whether an accelerator that activates the signal identified by signal_id can currently be activated. This signal is present to allow applications and derived widgets to override the default GtkWidget handling for determining whether an accelerator can be activated.

Parameters

widget

the object which received the signal

signal_id

the ID of a signal installed on widget

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

Returns

TRUE if the signal can be activated.

Flags: Run Last

The “child-notify” signal

void
user_function (GtkWidget  *widget,
               GParamSpec *child_property,
               gpointer    user_data)

The ::child-notify signal is emitted for each child property that has changed on an object. The signal's detail holds the property name.

Parameters

widget

the object which received the signal

child_property

the GParamSpec of the changed child property

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

Flags: No Hooks

The “composited-changed” signal

void
user_function (GtkWidget *widget,
               gpointer   user_data)

The ::composited-changed signal is emitted when the composited status of widgets screen changes. See gdk_screen_is_composited().

GtkWidget::composited-changed has been deprecated since version 3.22 and should not be used in newly-written code.

Use GdkScreen::composited-changed instead.

Parameters

widget

the object on which the signal is emitted

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

Flags: Action

The “configure-event” signal

gboolean
user_function (GtkWidget *widget,
               GdkEvent  *event,
               gpointer   user_data)

The ::configure-event signal will be emitted when the size, position or stacking of the widget 's window has changed.

To receive this signal, the GdkWindow associated to the widget needs to enable the GDK_STRUCTURE_MASK mask. GDK will enable this mask automatically for all new windows.

Parameters

widget

the object which received the signal

event

the GdkEventConfigure which triggered this signal.

[type Gdk.EventConfigure]

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

Returns

TRUE to stop other handlers from being invoked for the event. FALSE to propagate the event further.

Flags: Run Last

The “damage-event” signal

gboolean
user_function (GtkWidget *widget,
               GdkEvent  *event,
               gpointer   user_data)

Emitted when a redirected window belonging to widget gets drawn into. The region/area members of the event shows what area of the redirected drawable was drawn into.

Parameters

widget

the object which received the signal

event

the GdkEventExpose event.

[type Gdk.EventExpose]

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

Returns

TRUE to stop other handlers from being invoked for the event. FALSE to propagate the event further.

Flags: Run Last

Since: 2.14

The “delete-event” signal

gboolean
user_function (GtkWidget *widget,
               GdkEvent  *event,
               gpointer   user_data)

The ::delete-event signal is emitted if a user requests that a toplevel window is closed. The default handler for this signal destroys the window. Connecting gtk_widget_hide_on_delete() to this signal will cause the window to be hidden instead, so that it can later be shown again without reconstructing it.

Parameters

widget

the object which received the signal

event

the event which triggered this signal

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

Returns

TRUE to stop other handlers from being invoked for the event. FALSE to propagate the event further.

Flags: Run Last

The “destroy” signal

void
user_function (GtkWidget *object,
               gpointer   user_data)

Signals that all holders of a reference to the widget should release the reference that they hold. May result in finalization of the widget if all references are released.

This signal is not suitable for saving widget state.

Parameters

object

the object which received the signal

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

Flags: No Hooks

The “destroy-event” signal

gboolean
user_function (GtkWidget *widget,
               GdkEvent  *event,
               gpointer   user_data)

The ::destroy-event signal is emitted when a GdkWindow is destroyed. You rarely get this signal, because most widgets disconnect themselves from their window before they destroy it, so no widget owns the window at destroy time.

To receive this signal, the GdkWindow associated to the widget needs to enable the GDK_STRUCTURE_MASK mask. GDK will enable this mask automatically for all new windows.

Parameters

widget

the object which received the signal.

event

the event which triggered this signal

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

Returns

TRUE to stop other handlers from being invoked for the event. FALSE to propagate the event further.

Flags: Run Last

The “direction-changed” signal

void
user_function (GtkWidget       *widget,
               GtkTextDirection previous_direction,
               gpointer         user_data)

The ::direction-changed signal is emitted when the text direction of a widget changes.

Parameters

widget

the object on which the signal is emitted

previous_direction

the previous text direction of widget

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

Flags: Run First

The “drag-begin” signal

void
user_function (GtkWidget      *widget,
               GdkDragContext *context,
               gpointer        user_data)

The ::drag-begin signal is emitted on the drag source when a drag is started. A typical reason to connect to this signal is to set up a custom drag icon with e.g. gtk_drag_source_set_icon_pixbuf().

Note that some widgets set up a drag icon in the default handler of this signal, so you may have to use g_signal_connect_after() to override what the default handler did.

Parameters

widget

the object which received the signal

context

the drag context

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

Flags: Run Last

The “drag-data-delete” signal

void
user_function (GtkWidget      *widget,
               GdkDragContext *context,
               gpointer        user_data)

The ::drag-data-delete signal is emitted on the drag source when a drag with the action GDK_ACTION_MOVE is successfully completed. The signal handler is responsible for deleting the data that has been dropped. What "delete" means depends on the context of the drag operation.

Parameters

widget

the object which received the signal

context

the drag context

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

Flags: Run Last

The “drag-data-get” signal

void
user_function (GtkWidget        *widget,
               GdkDragContext   *context,
               GtkSelectionData *data,
               guint             info,
               guint             time,
               gpointer          user_data)

The ::drag-data-get signal is emitted on the drag source when the drop site requests the data which is dragged. It is the responsibility of the signal handler to fill data with the data in the format which is indicated by info . See gtk_selection_data_set() and gtk_selection_data_set_text().

Parameters

widget

the object which received the signal

context

the drag context

data

the GtkSelectionData to be filled with the dragged data

info

the info that has been registered with the target in the GtkTargetList

time

the timestamp at which the data was requested

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

Flags: Run Last

The “drag-data-received” signal

void
user_function (GtkWidget        *widget,
               GdkDragContext   *context,
               int               x,
               int               y,
               GtkSelectionData *data,
               guint             info,
               guint             time,
               gpointer          user_data)

The ::drag-data-received signal is emitted on the drop site when the dragged data has been received. If the data was received in order to determine whether the drop will be accepted, the handler is expected to call gdk_drag_status() and not finish the drag. If the data was received in response to a “drag-drop” signal (and this is the last target to be received), the handler for this signal is expected to process the received data and then call gtk_drag_finish(), setting the success parameter depending on whether the data was processed successfully.

Applications must create some means to determine why the signal was emitted and therefore whether to call gdk_drag_status() or gtk_drag_finish().

The handler may inspect the selected action with gdk_drag_context_get_selected_action() before calling gtk_drag_finish(), e.g. to implement GDK_ACTION_ASK as shown in the following example:

Parameters

widget

the object which received the signal

context

the drag context

x

where the drop happened

y

where the drop happened

data

the received data

info

the info that has been registered with the target in the GtkTargetList

time

the timestamp at which the data was received

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

Flags: Run Last

The “drag-drop” signal

gboolean
user_function (GtkWidget      *widget,
               GdkDragContext *context,
               int             x,
               int             y,
               guint           time,
               gpointer        user_data)

The ::drag-drop signal is emitted on the drop site when the user drops the data onto the widget. The signal handler must determine whether the cursor position is in a drop zone or not. If it is not in a drop zone, it returns FALSE and no further processing is necessary. Otherwise, the handler returns TRUE. In this case, the handler must ensure that gtk_drag_finish() is called to let the source know that the drop is done. The call to gtk_drag_finish() can be done either directly or in a “drag-data-received” handler which gets triggered by calling gtk_drag_get_data() to receive the data for one or more of the supported targets.

Parameters

widget

the object which received the signal

context

the drag context

x

the x coordinate of the current cursor position

y

the y coordinate of the current cursor position

time

the timestamp of the motion event

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

Returns

whether the cursor position is in a drop zone

Flags: Run Last

The “drag-end” signal

void
user_function (GtkWidget      *widget,
               GdkDragContext *context,
               gpointer        user_data)

The ::drag-end signal is emitted on the drag source when a drag is finished. A typical reason to connect to this signal is to undo things done in “drag-begin”.

Parameters

widget

the object which received the signal

context

the drag context

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

Flags: Run Last

The “drag-failed” signal

gboolean
user_function (GtkWidget      *widget,
               GdkDragContext *context,
               GtkDragResult   result,
               gpointer        user_data)

The ::drag-failed signal is emitted on the drag source when a drag has failed. The signal handler may hook custom code to handle a failed DnD operation based on the type of error, it returns TRUE is the failure has been already handled (not showing the default "drag operation failed" animation), otherwise it returns FALSE.

Parameters

widget

the object which received the signal

context

the drag context

result

the result of the drag operation

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

Returns

TRUE if the failed drag operation has been already handled.

Flags: Run Last

Since: 2.12

The “drag-leave” signal

void
user_function (GtkWidget      *widget,
               GdkDragContext *context,
               guint           time,
               gpointer        user_data)

The ::drag-leave signal is emitted on the drop site when the cursor leaves the widget. A typical reason to connect to this signal is to undo things done in “drag-motion”, e.g. undo highlighting with gtk_drag_unhighlight().

Likewise, the “drag-leave” signal is also emitted before the ::drag-drop signal, for instance to allow cleaning up of a preview item created in the “drag-motion” signal handler.

Parameters

widget

the object which received the signal.

context

the drag context

time

the timestamp of the motion event

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

Flags: Run Last

The “drag-motion” signal

gboolean
user_function (GtkWidget      *widget,
               GdkDragContext *context,
               int             x,
               int             y,
               guint           time,
               gpointer        user_data)

The ::drag-motion signal is emitted on the drop site when the user moves the cursor over the widget during a drag. The signal handler must determine whether the cursor position is in a drop zone or not. If it is not in a drop zone, it returns FALSE and no further processing is necessary. Otherwise, the handler returns TRUE. In this case, the handler is responsible for providing the necessary information for displaying feedback to the user, by calling gdk_drag_status().

If the decision whether the drop will be accepted or rejected can't be made based solely on the cursor position and the type of the data, the handler may inspect the dragged data by calling gtk_drag_get_data() and defer the gdk_drag_status() call to the “drag-data-received” handler. Note that you must pass GTK_DEST_DEFAULT_DROP, GTK_DEST_DEFAULT_MOTION or GTK_DEST_DEFAULT_ALL to gtk_drag_dest_set() when using the drag-motion signal that way.

Also note that there is no drag-enter signal. The drag receiver has to keep track of whether he has received any drag-motion signals since the last “drag-leave” and if not, treat the drag-motion signal as an "enter" signal. Upon an "enter", the handler will typically highlight the drop site with gtk_drag_highlight().

static void
foo_widget_get_preferred_height (GtkWidget *widget,
                                 gint *min_height,
                                 gint *nat_height)
{
   if (i_am_in_height_for_width_mode)
     {
       gint min_width, nat_width;

       GTK_WIDGET_GET_CLASS (widget)->get_preferred_width (widget,
                                                           &min_width,
                                                           &nat_width);
       GTK_WIDGET_GET_CLASS (widget)->get_preferred_height_for_width
                                                          (widget,
                                                           min_width,
                                                           min_height,
                                                           nat_height);
     }
   else
     {
        ... some widgets do both. For instance, if a GtkLabel is
        rotated to 90 degrees it will return the minimum and
        natural height for the rotated label here.
     }
}

Parameters

widget

the object which received the signal

context

the drag context

x

the x coordinate of the current cursor position

y

the y coordinate of the current cursor position

time

the timestamp of the motion event

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

Returns

whether the cursor position is in a drop zone

Flags: Run Last

The “draw” signal

gboolean
user_function (GtkWidget    *widget,
               CairoContext *cr,
               gpointer      user_data)

This signal is emitted when a widget is supposed to render itself. The widget 's top left corner must be painted at the origin of the passed in context and be sized to the values returned by gtk_widget_get_allocated_width() and gtk_widget_get_allocated_height().

Signal handlers connected to this signal can modify the cairo context passed as cr in any way they like and don't need to restore it. The signal emission takes care of calling cairo_save() before and cairo_restore() after invoking the handler.

The signal handler will get a cr with a clip region already set to the widget's dirty region, i.e. to the area that needs repainting. Complicated widgets that want to avoid redrawing themselves completely can get the full extents of the clip region with gdk_cairo_get_clip_rectangle(), or they can get a finer-grained representation of the dirty region with cairo_copy_clip_rectangle_list().

Parameters

widget

the object which received the signal

cr

the cairo context to draw to

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

Returns

TRUE to stop other handlers from being invoked for the event. FALSE to propagate the event further.

Flags: Run Last

Since: 3.0

The “enter-notify-event” signal

gboolean
user_function (GtkWidget *widget,
               GdkEvent  *event,
               gpointer   user_data)

The ::enter-notify-event will be emitted when the pointer enters the widget 's window.

To receive this signal, the GdkWindow associated to the widget needs to enable the GDK_ENTER_NOTIFY_MASK mask.

This signal will be sent to the grab widget if there is one.

Parameters

widget

the object which received the signal

event

the GdkEventCrossing which triggered this signal.

[type Gdk.EventCrossing]

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

Returns

TRUE to stop other handlers from being invoked for the event. FALSE to propagate the event further.

Flags: Run Last

The “event” signal

gboolean
user_function (GtkWidget *widget,
               GdkEvent  *event,
               gpointer   user_data)

The GTK+ main loop will emit three signals for each GDK event delivered to a widget: one generic ::event signal, another, more specific, signal that matches the type of event delivered (e.g. “key-press-event”) and finally a generic “event-after” signal.

Parameters

widget

the object which received the signal.

event

the GdkEvent which triggered this signal

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

Returns

TRUE to stop other handlers from being invoked for the event and to cancel the emission of the second specific ::event signal. FALSE to propagate the event further and to allow the emission of the second signal. The ::event-after signal is emitted regardless of the return value.

Flags: Run Last

The “event-after” signal

void
user_function (GtkWidget *widget,
               GdkEvent  *event,
               gpointer   user_data)

After the emission of the “event” signal and (optionally) the second more specific signal, ::event-after will be emitted regardless of the previous two signals handlers return values.

Parameters

widget

the object which received the signal.

event

the GdkEvent which triggered this signal

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

The “focus” signal

gboolean
user_function (GtkWidget       *widget,
               GtkDirectionType direction,
               gpointer         user_data)

Parameters

widget

the object which received the signal.

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

Returns

TRUE to stop other handlers from being invoked for the event. FALSE to propagate the event further.

Flags: Run Last

The “focus-in-event” signal

gboolean
user_function (GtkWidget *widget,
               GdkEvent  *event,
               gpointer   user_data)

The ::focus-in-event signal will be emitted when the keyboard focus enters the widget 's window.

To receive this signal, the GdkWindow associated to the widget needs to enable the GDK_FOCUS_CHANGE_MASK mask.

Parameters

widget

the object which received the signal

event

the GdkEventFocus which triggered this signal.

[type Gdk.EventFocus]

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

Returns

TRUE to stop other handlers from being invoked for the event. FALSE to propagate the event further.

Flags: Run Last

The “focus-out-event” signal

gboolean
user_function (GtkWidget *widget,
               GdkEvent  *event,
               gpointer   user_data)

The ::focus-out-event signal will be emitted when the keyboard focus leaves the widget 's window.

To receive this signal, the GdkWindow associated to the widget needs to enable the GDK_FOCUS_CHANGE_MASK mask.

Parameters

widget

the object which received the signal

event

the GdkEventFocus which triggered this signal.

[type Gdk.EventFocus]

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

Returns

TRUE to stop other handlers from being invoked for the event. FALSE to propagate the event further.

Flags: Run Last

The “grab-broken-event” signal

gboolean
user_function (GtkWidget *widget,
               GdkEvent  *event,
               gpointer   user_data)

Emitted when a pointer or keyboard grab on a window belonging to widget gets broken.

On X11, this happens when the grab window becomes unviewable (i.e. it or one of its ancestors is unmapped), or if the same application grabs the pointer or keyboard again.

Parameters

widget

the object which received the signal

event

the GdkEventGrabBroken event.

[type Gdk.EventGrabBroken]

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

Returns

TRUE to stop other handlers from being invoked for the event. FALSE to propagate the event further.

Flags: Run Last

Since: 2.8

The “grab-focus” signal

void
user_function (GtkWidget *widget,
               gpointer   user_data)

Parameters

widget

the object which received the signal.

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

Flags: Action

The “grab-notify” signal

void
user_function (GtkWidget *widget,
               gboolean   was_grabbed,
               gpointer   user_data)

The ::grab-notify signal is emitted when a widget becomes shadowed by a GTK+ grab (not a pointer or keyboard grab) on another widget, or when it becomes unshadowed due to a grab being removed.

A widget is shadowed by a gtk_grab_add() when the topmost grab widget in the grab stack of its window group is not its ancestor.

Parameters

widget

the object which received the signal

was_grabbed

FALSE if the widget becomes shadowed, TRUE if it becomes unshadowed

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

Flags: Run First

The “hide” signal

void
user_function (GtkWidget *widget,
               gpointer   user_data)

The ::hide signal is emitted when widget is hidden, for example with gtk_widget_hide().

Parameters

widget

the object which received the signal.

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

Flags: Run First

The “hierarchy-changed” signal

void
user_function (GtkWidget *widget,
               GtkWidget *previous_toplevel,
               gpointer   user_data)

The ::hierarchy-changed signal is emitted when the anchored state of a widget changes. A widget is “anchored” when its toplevel ancestor is a GtkWindow. This signal is emitted when a widget changes from un-anchored to anchored or vice-versa.

Parameters

widget

the object on which the signal is emitted

previous_toplevel

the previous toplevel ancestor, or NULL if the widget was previously unanchored.

[allow-none]

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

Flags: Run Last

The “key-press-event” signal

gboolean
user_function (GtkWidget *widget,
               GdkEvent  *event,
               gpointer   user_data)

The ::key-press-event signal is emitted when a key is pressed. The signal emission will reoccur at the key-repeat rate when the key is kept pressed.

To receive this signal, the GdkWindow associated to the widget needs to enable the GDK_KEY_PRESS_MASK mask.

This signal will be sent to the grab widget if there is one.

Parameters

widget

the object which received the signal

event

the GdkEventKey which triggered this signal.

[type Gdk.EventKey]

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

Returns

TRUE to stop other handlers from being invoked for the event. FALSE to propagate the event further.

Flags: Run Last

The “key-release-event” signal

gboolean
user_function (GtkWidget *widget,
               GdkEvent  *event,
               gpointer   user_data)

The ::key-release-event signal is emitted when a key is released.

To receive this signal, the GdkWindow associated to the widget needs to enable the GDK_KEY_RELEASE_MASK mask.

This signal will be sent to the grab widget if there is one.

Parameters

widget

the object which received the signal

event

the GdkEventKey which triggered this signal.

[type Gdk.EventKey]

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

Returns

TRUE to stop other handlers from being invoked for the event. FALSE to propagate the event further.

Flags: Run Last

The “keynav-failed” signal

gboolean
user_function (GtkWidget       *widget,
               GtkDirectionType direction,
               gpointer         user_data)

Gets emitted if keyboard navigation fails. See gtk_widget_keynav_failed() for details.

Parameters

widget

the object which received the signal

direction

the direction of movement

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

Returns

TRUE if stopping keyboard navigation is fine, FALSE if the emitting widget should try to handle the keyboard navigation attempt in its parent container(s).

Flags: Run Last

Since: 2.12

The “leave-notify-event” signal

gboolean
user_function (GtkWidget *widget,
               GdkEvent  *event,
               gpointer   user_data)

The ::leave-notify-event will be emitted when the pointer leaves the widget 's window.

To receive this signal, the GdkWindow associated to the widget needs to enable the GDK_LEAVE_NOTIFY_MASK mask.

This signal will be sent to the grab widget if there is one.

Parameters

widget

the object which received the signal

event

the GdkEventCrossing which triggered this signal.

[type Gdk.EventCrossing]

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

Returns

TRUE to stop other handlers from being invoked for the event. FALSE to propagate the event further.

Flags: Run Last

The “map” signal

void
user_function (GtkWidget *widget,
               gpointer   user_data)

The ::map signal is emitted when widget is going to be mapped, that is when the widget is visible (which is controlled with gtk_widget_set_visible()) and all its parents up to the toplevel widget are also visible. Once the map has occurred, “map-event” will be emitted.

The ::map signal can be used to determine whether a widget will be drawn, for instance it can resume an animation that was stopped during the emission of “unmap”.

Parameters

widget

the object which received the signal.

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

Flags: Run First

The “map-event” signal

gboolean
user_function (GtkWidget *widget,
               GdkEvent  *event,
               gpointer   user_data)

The ::map-event signal will be emitted when the widget 's window is mapped. A window is mapped when it becomes visible on the screen.

To receive this signal, the GdkWindow associated to the widget needs to enable the GDK_STRUCTURE_MASK mask. GDK will enable this mask automatically for all new windows.

Parameters

widget

the object which received the signal

event

the GdkEventAny which triggered this signal.

[type Gdk.EventAny]

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

Returns

TRUE to stop other handlers from being invoked for the event. FALSE to propagate the event further.

Flags: Run Last

The “mnemonic-activate” signal

gboolean
user_function (GtkWidget *widget,
               gboolean   group_cycling,
               gpointer   user_data)

The default handler for this signal activates widget if group_cycling is FALSE, or just makes widget grab focus if group_cycling is TRUE.

Parameters

widget

the object which received the signal.

group_cycling

TRUE if there are other widgets with the same mnemonic

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

Returns

TRUE to stop other handlers from being invoked for the event. FALSE to propagate the event further.

Flags: Run Last

The “motion-notify-event” signal

gboolean
user_function (GtkWidget *widget,
               GdkEvent  *event,
               gpointer   user_data)

The ::motion-notify-event signal is emitted when the pointer moves over the widget's GdkWindow.

To receive this signal, the GdkWindow associated to the widget needs to enable the GDK_POINTER_MOTION_MASK mask.

This signal will be sent to the grab widget if there is one.

Parameters

widget

the object which received the signal.

event

the GdkEventMotion which triggered this signal.

[type Gdk.EventMotion]

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

Returns

TRUE to stop other handlers from being invoked for the event. FALSE to propagate the event further.

Flags: Run Last

The “move-focus” signal

void
user_function (GtkWidget       *widget,
               GtkDirectionType direction,
               gpointer         user_data)

Parameters

widget

the object which received the signal.

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

Flags: Action

The “parent-set” signal

void
user_function (GtkWidget *widget,
               GtkWidget *old_parent,
               gpointer   user_data)

The ::parent-set signal is emitted when a new parent has been set on a widget.

Parameters

widget

the object on which the signal is emitted

old_parent

the previous parent, or NULL if the widget just got its initial parent.

[allow-none]

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

Flags: Run First

The “popup-menu” signal

gboolean
user_function (GtkWidget *widget,
               gpointer   user_data)

This signal gets emitted whenever a widget should pop up a context menu. This usually happens through the standard key binding mechanism; by pressing a certain key while a widget is focused, the user can cause the widget to pop up a menu. For example, the GtkEntry widget creates a menu with clipboard commands. See the Popup Menu Migration Checklist for an example of how to use this signal.

Parameters

widget

the object which received the signal

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

Returns

TRUE if a menu was activated

Flags: Action

The “property-notify-event” signal

gboolean
user_function (GtkWidget *widget,
               GdkEvent  *event,
               gpointer   user_data)

The ::property-notify-event signal will be emitted when a property on the widget 's window has been changed or deleted.

To receive this signal, the GdkWindow associated to the widget needs to enable the GDK_PROPERTY_CHANGE_MASK mask.

Parameters

widget

the object which received the signal

event

the GdkEventProperty which triggered this signal.

[type Gdk.EventProperty]

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

Returns

TRUE to stop other handlers from being invoked for the event. FALSE to propagate the event further.

Flags: Run Last

The “proximity-in-event” signal

gboolean
user_function (GtkWidget *widget,
               GdkEvent  *event,
               gpointer   user_data)

To receive this signal the GdkWindow associated to the widget needs to enable the GDK_PROXIMITY_IN_MASK mask.

This signal will be sent to the grab widget if there is one.

Parameters

widget

the object which received the signal

event

the GdkEventProximity which triggered this signal.

[type Gdk.EventProximity]

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

Returns

TRUE to stop other handlers from being invoked for the event. FALSE to propagate the event further.

Flags: Run Last

The “proximity-out-event” signal

gboolean
user_function (GtkWidget *widget,
               GdkEvent  *event,
               gpointer   user_data)

To receive this signal the GdkWindow associated to the widget needs to enable the GDK_PROXIMITY_OUT_MASK mask.

This signal will be sent to the grab widget if there is one.

Parameters

widget

the object which received the signal

event

the GdkEventProximity which triggered this signal.

[type Gdk.EventProximity]

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

Returns

TRUE to stop other handlers from being invoked for the event. FALSE to propagate the event further.

Flags: Run Last

The “query-tooltip” signal

gboolean
user_function (GtkWidget  *widget,
               int         x,
               int         y,
               gboolean    keyboard_mode,
               GtkTooltip *tooltip,
               gpointer    user_data)

Emitted when “has-tooltip” is TRUE and the hover timeout has expired with the cursor hovering "above" widget ; or emitted when widget got focus in keyboard mode.

Using the given coordinates, the signal handler should determine whether a tooltip should be shown for widget . If this is the case TRUE should be returned, FALSE otherwise. Note that if keyboard_mode is TRUE, the values of x and y are undefined and should not be used.

The signal handler is free to manipulate tooltip with the therefore destined function calls.

Parameters

widget

the object which received the signal

x

the x coordinate of the cursor position where the request has been emitted, relative to widget 's left side

y

the y coordinate of the cursor position where the request has been emitted, relative to widget 's top

keyboard_mode

TRUE if the tooltip was triggered using the keyboard

tooltip

a GtkTooltip

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

Returns

TRUE if tooltip should be shown right now, FALSE otherwise.

Flags: Run Last

Since: 2.12

The “realize” signal

void
user_function (GtkWidget *widget,
               gpointer   user_data)

The ::realize signal is emitted when widget is associated with a GdkWindow, which means that gtk_widget_realize() has been called or the widget has been mapped (that is, it is going to be drawn).

Parameters

widget

the object which received the signal.

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

Flags: Run First

The “screen-changed” signal

void
user_function (GtkWidget *widget,
               GdkScreen *previous_screen,
               gpointer   user_data)

The ::screen-changed signal gets emitted when the screen of a widget has changed.

Parameters

widget

the object on which the signal is emitted

previous_screen

the previous screen, or NULL if the widget was not associated with a screen before.

[allow-none]

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

Flags: Run Last

The “scroll-event” signal

gboolean
user_function (GtkWidget *widget,
               GdkEvent  *event,
               gpointer   user_data)

The ::scroll-event signal is emitted when a button in the 4 to 7 range is pressed. Wheel mice are usually configured to generate button press events for buttons 4 and 5 when the wheel is turned.

To receive this signal, the GdkWindow associated to the widget needs to enable the GDK_SCROLL_MASK mask.

This signal will be sent to the grab widget if there is one.

Parameters

widget

the object which received the signal.

event

the GdkEventScroll which triggered this signal.

[type Gdk.EventScroll]

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

Returns

TRUE to stop other handlers from being invoked for the event. FALSE to propagate the event further.

Flags: Run Last

The “selection-clear-event” signal

gboolean
user_function (GtkWidget *widget,
               GdkEvent  *event,
               gpointer   user_data)

The ::selection-clear-event signal will be emitted when the the widget 's window has lost ownership of a selection.

Parameters

widget

the object which received the signal

event

the GdkEventSelection which triggered this signal.

[type Gdk.EventSelection]

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

Returns

TRUE to stop other handlers from being invoked for the event. FALSE to propagate the event further.

Flags: Run Last

The “selection-get” signal

void
user_function (GtkWidget        *widget,
               GtkSelectionData *data,
               guint             info,
               guint             time,
               gpointer          user_data)

Parameters

widget

the object which received the signal.

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

Flags: Run Last

The “selection-notify-event” signal

gboolean
user_function (GtkWidget *widget,
               GdkEvent  *event,
               gpointer   user_data)

Parameters

widget

the object which received the signal.

event

.

[type Gdk.EventSelection]

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

Returns

TRUE to stop other handlers from being invoked for the event. FALSE to propagate the event further.

Flags: Run Last

The “selection-received” signal

void
user_function (GtkWidget        *widget,
               GtkSelectionData *data,
               guint             time,
               gpointer          user_data)

Parameters

widget

the object which received the signal.

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

Flags: Run Last

The “selection-request-event” signal

gboolean
user_function (GtkWidget *widget,
               GdkEvent  *event,
               gpointer   user_data)

The ::selection-request-event signal will be emitted when another client requests ownership of the selection owned by the widget 's window.

Parameters

widget

the object which received the signal

event

the GdkEventSelection which triggered this signal.

[type Gdk.EventSelection]

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

Returns

TRUE to stop other handlers from being invoked for the event. FALSE to propagate the event further.

Flags: Run Last

The “show” signal

void
user_function (GtkWidget *widget,
               gpointer   user_data)

The ::show signal is emitted when widget is shown, for example with gtk_widget_show().

Parameters

widget

the object which received the signal.

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

Flags: Run First

The “show-help” signal

gboolean
user_function (GtkWidget        *widget,
               GtkWidgetHelpType help_type,
               gpointer          user_data)

Parameters

widget

the object which received the signal.

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

Returns

TRUE to stop other handlers from being invoked for the event. FALSE to propagate the event further.

Flags: Action

The “size-allocate” signal

void
user_function (GtkWidget    *widget,
               GdkRectangle *allocation,
               gpointer      user_data)

Parameters

widget

the object which received the signal.

allocation

the region which has been allocated to the widget.

[type Gtk.Allocation]

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

Flags: Run First

The “state-changed” signal

void
user_function (GtkWidget   *widget,
               GtkStateType state,
               gpointer     user_data)

The ::state-changed signal is emitted when the widget state changes. See gtk_widget_get_state().

GtkWidget::state-changed has been deprecated since version 3.0 and should not be used in newly-written code.

Use “state-flags-changed” instead.

Parameters

widget

the object which received the signal.

state

the previous state

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

Flags: Run First

The “state-flags-changed” signal

void
user_function (GtkWidget    *widget,
               GtkStateFlags flags,
               gpointer      user_data)

The ::state-flags-changed signal is emitted when the widget state changes, see gtk_widget_get_state_flags().

Parameters

widget

the object which received the signal.

flags

The previous state flags.

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

Flags: Run First

Since: 3.0

The “style-set” signal

void
user_function (GtkWidget *widget,
               GtkStyle  *previous_style,
               gpointer   user_data)

The ::style-set signal is emitted when a new style has been set on a widget. Note that style-modifying functions like gtk_widget_modify_base() also cause this signal to be emitted.

Note that this signal is emitted for changes to the deprecated GtkStyle. To track changes to the GtkStyleContext associated with a widget, use the “style-updated” signal.

GtkWidget::style-set has been deprecated since version 3.0 and should not be used in newly-written code.

Use the “style-updated” signal

Parameters

widget

the object on which the signal is emitted

previous_style

the previous style, or NULL if the widget just got its initial style.

[allow-none]

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

Flags: Run First

The “style-updated” signal

void
user_function (GtkWidget *widget,
               gpointer   user_data)

The ::style-updated signal is a convenience signal that is emitted when the “changed” signal is emitted on the widget 's associated GtkStyleContext as returned by gtk_widget_get_style_context().

Note that style-modifying functions like gtk_widget_override_color() also cause this signal to be emitted.

Parameters

widget

the object on which the signal is emitted

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

Flags: Run First

Since: 3.0

The “touch-event” signal

gboolean
user_function (GtkWidget *widget,
               GdkEvent  *arg1,
               gpointer   user_data)

Flags: Run Last

The “unmap” signal

void
user_function (GtkWidget *widget,
               gpointer   user_data)

The ::unmap signal is emitted when widget is going to be unmapped, which means that either it or any of its parents up to the toplevel widget have been set as hidden.

As ::unmap indicates that a widget will not be shown any longer, it can be used to, for example, stop an animation on the widget.

Parameters

widget

the object which received the signal.

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

Flags: Run First

The “unmap-event” signal

gboolean
user_function (GtkWidget *widget,
               GdkEvent  *event,
               gpointer   user_data)

The ::unmap-event signal will be emitted when the widget 's window is unmapped. A window is unmapped when it becomes invisible on the screen.

To receive this signal, the GdkWindow associated to the widget needs to enable the GDK_STRUCTURE_MASK mask. GDK will enable this mask automatically for all new windows.

Parameters

widget

the object which received the signal

event

the GdkEventAny which triggered this signal.

[type Gdk.EventAny]

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

Returns

TRUE to stop other handlers from being invoked for the event. FALSE to propagate the event further.

Flags: Run Last

The “unrealize” signal

void
user_function (GtkWidget *widget,
               gpointer   user_data)

The ::unrealize signal is emitted when the GdkWindow associated with widget is destroyed, which means that gtk_widget_unrealize() has been called or the widget has been unmapped (that is, it is going to be hidden).

Parameters

widget

the object which received the signal.

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

Flags: Run Last

The “visibility-notify-event” signal

gboolean
user_function (GtkWidget *widget,
               GdkEvent  *event,
               gpointer   user_data)

The ::visibility-notify-event will be emitted when the widget 's window is obscured or unobscured.

To receive this signal the GdkWindow associated to the widget needs to enable the GDK_VISIBILITY_NOTIFY_MASK mask.

GtkWidget::visibility-notify-event has been deprecated since version 3.12 and should not be used in newly-written code.

Modern composited windowing systems with pervasive transparency make it impossible to track the visibility of a window reliably, so this signal can not be guaranteed to provide useful information.

Parameters

widget

the object which received the signal

event

the GdkEventVisibility which triggered this signal.

[type Gdk.EventVisibility]

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

Returns

TRUE to stop other handlers from being invoked for the event. FALSE to propagate the event further.

Flags: Run Last

The “window-state-event” signal

gboolean
user_function (GtkWidget *widget,
               GdkEvent  *event,
               gpointer   user_data)

The ::window-state-event will be emitted when the state of the toplevel window associated to the widget changes.

To receive this signal the GdkWindow associated to the widget needs to enable the GDK_STRUCTURE_MASK mask. GDK will enable this mask automatically for all new windows.

Parameters

widget

the object which received the signal

event

the GdkEventWindowState which triggered this signal.

[type Gdk.EventWindowState]

user_data

user data set when the signal handler was connected.

Returns

TRUE to stop other handlers from being invoked for the event. FALSE to propagate the event further.

Flags: Run Last

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