Gtkdialog Examples

[MochiMoppel]

I am playing around with it and setting up the background in a similar way with the transparent Airedale silhouette. Looks great and will be a candidate for the default wallpaper/background and for it's minimal system impact.

This has not minimal system impact. IMHO this is a waste of process resources. If I understand correctly that what you and @geo_c are trying to do is put a gtkdialog or whatever window on top of the pinboard to permanently show some static text.
Commonly Puppy wallpapers have the distro name somewhere imprinted.
If this is a SVG wallpaper, and there are many, this would not only be a very efficient way to display a big image, this would also mean that (colored) text could be added/changed any time at any position. Could be done with a relatively simple script.

[rockedge]

@MochiMoppel Using a SVG version of just the background is what I am intending.

[MochiMoppel]

@rockedge I played with the image file /usr/share/backgrounds/431-dark.svg, found in your Fossa96-radky.
Most of the SVG files have the text portion neatly added at the end, after <!-- text --> comment.

I changed the <text> tag manually to

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<text style="fill:white;stroke:none;" font-family="sans" font-style="italic" font-weight="bold" font-size="38" x="70%" y="90%">Your text here</text>

, resulting in the image shown in the screenshot. Could certainly be made even fancier.

431-dark.svg.gz

This is the original SVG file, gzipped

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TIP: ROX-Filer can use gzipped SVG files directly as wallpaper. Just gzip any SVG file and give it a .svgz extension. This will reduce the SVG filesize considerably. (I gave the attachment a .svg.gz extension to make unzipping easier. Change to .svgz to make it digestible for ROX)

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[geo_c]

So as not to hi-jack this topic, I'm continuing the .svg bacground image discussion here:
https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic. ... 804#p79804

[rockedge]

@MochiMoppel playing around with the information you supplied:

Screenshot(11).jpg

going to set up the background directory with tip in mind.

TIP: ROX-Filer can use gzipped SVG files directly as wallpaper. Just gzip any SVG file and give it a .svgz extension. This will reduce the SVG filesize considerably. (I gave the attachment a .svg.gz extension to make unzipping easier. Change to .svgz to make it digestible for ROX)

[glene77is]

to Don570

Thanks for the idea . .
I have been tinkering with your script, and came up with the attached script.

Run this via Xterm to watch the workings.

# rc.z_CDW-DoubleClick.sh
# Example of gtkdialog application menu
# Example of Embedded Graphics
# Example of Quit Double-Click button
#
# graphics are gleaned from Linux:
# source: .svg and .xpm are (1) copied as text, (2) modified as text by hand.
# embedded graphics function this way: (1) installed in app, (2) echoed out by app, (3) imported by app gui <button> .

Double-Click Buttons and Embeded Graphics.sh screen shot

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[don570]

I didn't know that double click of a button was possible.
Thanks for example.
Zigbert has some recommendations and tips --->
https://oldforum.puppylinux.com/viewtop ... =gtkdialog

Examples: double clicking on list
or double clicking on a thumbnail image will launch image viewer.
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[don570]

I developed a system for creating custom color buttons for Gtkdialog.
Code writers are welcome to use it in scripts.

test-labels.sh.gz

fake gz extension

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(fake gz extension)

Notes: SVG images are stored in /tmp
You can open them with an image editor such as mtpaint.
Colors are the standard ones that SVG recognizes.
A color can have a prefix 'light' or 'dark' . Example ---> lightblue
Width of the button is automatically calculated from label text.

Instructions: Click on 'Proceed' button and then the 'Return' button.

The finished project is still available from old Puppy forum
https://oldforum.puppylinux.com/viewtop ... 41#p760041

Reference:
https://blogs.czapski.id.au/tag/gtkdialog-color

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