Gtk2 Perl Rc style

last edited 6 years ago by blackett

I spent a number of hours figuring out how to force the scroll bar on the side of a GtkComboBox.

The setting is a Style Property

"appears-as-list" gboolean : Read

So to set it you have to override the theme from your gtkrc.

This how I did it in Perl, add the code before making any ComboBoxes:

  #Override the combobox style so we always get a list
  my $combobox_style = <<EOS
    style "combobox_style"
    {
      GtkComboBox::appears-as-list = 1
    }
    class "GtkComboBox" style "combobox_style"
  EOS
         ;
  Gtk2::Rc->parse_string($combobox_style);

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