GtkLinkButton

GtkLinkButton — Create buttons bound to a URL

Functions

Types and Values

Includes

#include <gtk/gtk.h>

Description

A GtkLinkButton is a GtkButton with a hyperlink, similar to the one used by web browsers, which triggers an action when clicked. It is useful to show quick links to resources.

A link button is created by calling either gtk_link_button_new() or gtk_link_button_new_with_label(). If using the former, the URI you pass to the constructor is used as a label for the widget.

The URI bound to a GtkLinkButton can be set specifically using gtk_link_button_set_uri(), and retrieved using gtk_link_button_get_uri().

By default, GtkLinkButton calls gtk_show_uri_on_window() when the button is clicked. This behaviour can be overridden by connecting to the “activate-link” signal and returning TRUE from the signal handler.

CSS nodes

GtkLinkButton has a single CSS node with name button. To differentiate it from a plain GtkButton, it gets the .link style class.

Functions

gtk_link_button_new ()

GtkWidget *
gtk_link_button_new (const gchar *uri);

Creates a new GtkLinkButton with the URI as its text.

Parameters

uri

a valid URI

 

Returns

a new link button widget.

Since: 2.10


gtk_link_button_new_with_label ()

GtkWidget *
gtk_link_button_new_with_label (const gchar *uri,
                                const gchar *label);

Creates a new GtkLinkButton containing a label.

Parameters

uri

a valid URI

 

label

the text of the button.

[allow-none]

Returns

a new link button widget.

[transfer none]

Since: 2.10


gtk_link_button_get_uri ()

const gchar *
gtk_link_button_get_uri (GtkLinkButton *link_button);

Retrieves the URI set using gtk_link_button_set_uri().

Parameters

link_button

a GtkLinkButton

 

Returns

a valid URI. The returned string is owned by the link button and should not be modified or freed.

Since: 2.10


gtk_link_button_set_uri ()

void
gtk_link_button_set_uri (GtkLinkButton *link_button,
                         const gchar *uri);

Sets uri as the URI where the GtkLinkButton points. As a side-effect this unsets the “visited” state of the button.

Parameters

link_button

a GtkLinkButton

 

uri

a valid URI

 

Since: 2.10


gtk_link_button_get_visited ()

gboolean
gtk_link_button_get_visited (GtkLinkButton *link_button);

Retrieves the “visited” state of the URI where the GtkLinkButton points. The button becomes visited when it is clicked. If the URI is changed on the button, the “visited” state is unset again.

The state may also be changed using gtk_link_button_set_visited().

Parameters

link_button

a GtkLinkButton

 

Returns

TRUE if the link has been visited, FALSE otherwise

Since: 2.14


gtk_link_button_set_visited ()

void
gtk_link_button_set_visited (GtkLinkButton *link_button,
                             gboolean visited);

Sets the “visited” state of the URI where the GtkLinkButton points. See gtk_link_button_get_visited() for more details.

Parameters

link_button

a GtkLinkButton

 

visited

the new “visited” state

 

Since: 2.14

Types and Values

struct GtkLinkButton

struct GtkLinkButton {
};

The GtkLinkButton contains only private data and should be accessed using the provided API.


struct GtkLinkButtonClass

struct GtkLinkButtonClass {
  gboolean (* activate_link) (GtkLinkButton *button);
};

The GtkLinkButtonClass contains only private data.

Members

activate_link ()

class handler for the “activate-link” signal

 

See Also

GtkButton