java-gnome-developer

[Java-gnome-developer] Gnome icon retrieval

[LCID F. <lci...@gm...>]

Hearing about the java-gnome package I was quite thrilled to be able to 
integrate Java applications better into gnome. For example I'd like to 
get the names of system icons so that I can load them into java.
Looking at the doc there are the classes IconTheme and IconInfo but both 
seem to be stubs. Is there a reason for this?

Re: [Java-gnome-developer] Gnome icon retrieval

[Andrew C. <an...@op...>]

On Mon, 2009-04-13 at 14:13 +0200, LCID Fire wrote:
> I'd like to 
> get the names of system icons so that I can load them into java.

The stock icons are available a number of ways; the most common is to
use the Image Widget constructor that takes a Stock:
http://java-gnome.sourceforge.net/4.0/doc/api/org/gnome/gtk/Image.html#Image(org.gnome.gtk.Stock,%20org.gnome.gtk.IconSize)

In day-to-day use, though, usually what you're doing is creating a
Button or MenuItem, and those have constructors that not only pull the
stock icon but also the appropriate label text, etc.
http://java-gnome.sourceforge.net/4.0/doc/api/org/gnome/gtk/Button.html#Button(org.gnome.gtk.Stock)
and
http://java-gnome.sourceforge.net/4.0/doc/api/org/gnome/gtk/ImageMenuItem.html#ImageMenuItem(org.gnome.gtk.Stock)
and most usefully, from Action via create*Item().
http://java-gnome.sourceforge.net/4.0/doc/api/org/gnome/gtk/Action.html#Action(java.lang.String,%20java.lang.String,%20java.lang.String,%20org.gnome.gtk.Stock)

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Re: [Java-gnome-developer] Gnome icon retrieval

[LCID F. <lci...@gm...>]

Andrew Cowie wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-04-13 at 14:13 +0200, LCID Fire wrote:
>> I'd like to 
>> get the names of system icons so that I can load them into java.
> 
> The stock icons are available a number of ways; the most common is to
> use the Image Widget constructor that takes a Stock:
> http://java-gnome.sourceforge.net/4.0/doc/api/org/gnome/gtk/Image.html#Image(org.gnome.gtk.Stock,%20org.gnome.gtk.IconSize)
The Stock definitions are quite bleak since most of the icons provided 
by themes are not accessible through them.

I just found (all hail to google codesearch ;)) org.gnu.gtk which seems 
to provide exactly the IconTheme implementation I require.