Extensions to Gtk+: exo Reference Manual

## Extensions to Gtk+ Extensions to Gtk+ — Miscelleanous extensions to the Gtk+ library |

## Functions

void | exo_gtk_object_destroy_later ()
void | exo_gtk_file_chooser_add_thumbnail_preview ()
void | exo_gtk_url_about_dialog_hook ()
GtkWidget * | exo_gtk_dialog_get_action_area ()
void | exo_gtk_dialog_add_secondary_button ()

## Includes

    #include <exo/exo.h>

## Description

Various additional functions to the core API provided by the Gtk+ library.

For example, `exo_gtk_file_chooser_add_thumbnail_preview()` is a convenience method to add a thumbnail based preview widget to a GtkFileChooser, which will display a preview of the selected file if either a thumbnail is available or a thumbnail could be generated using the GdkPixbuf library.

## Functions

### exo_gtk_object_destroy_later ()

    void
    exo_gtk_object_destroy_later (GtkWidget *object);

Schedules an idle function to destroy the specified `object` when the application enters the main loop the next time.

#### Parameters

object | a GtkObject. |

### exo_gtk_file_chooser_add_thumbnail_preview ()

    void
    exo_gtk_file_chooser_add_thumbnail_preview
                                   (GtkFileChooser *chooser);

This is a convenience function that adds a preview widget to the `chooser` , which displays thumbnails for the selected filenames using the thumbnail database. The preview widget is also able to generate thumbnails for all image formats supported by GdkPixbuf.

Use this function whenever you display a GtkFileChooser to ask the user to select an image file from the file system.

The preview widget also supports URIs other than file:-URIs to a certain degree, but this support is rather limited currently, so you may want to use `gtk_file_chooser_set_local_only()` to ensure that the user can only select files from the local file system.

When `chooser` is configured to select multiple image files - using the `gtk_file_chooser_set_select_multiple()` method - the behaviour of the preview widget is currently undefined, in that it is not defined for which of the selected files the preview will be displayed.

#### Parameters

chooser | a GtkFileChooser. |

Since: 0.3.1.9

### exo_gtk_url_about_dialog_hook ()

    void
    exo_gtk_url_about_dialog_hook (GtkAboutDialog *about_dialog,
                                   const gchar *address,
                                   gpointer user_data);

This is a convenience function, which can be registered with GtkAboutDialog, to open links clicked by the user in GtkAboutDialogs.

All you need to do is to register this hook with `gtk_about_dialog_set_url_hook()` and `gtk_about_dialog_set_email_hook()`. This can be done prior to calling `gtk_show_about_dialog()`, for example:

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    static void show_about_dialog (void)
    {

      gtk_show_about_dialog (.....);
    }

This function is not needed when you use Gtk 2.18 or later, because from that version this is implemented by default.

#### Parameters

about_dialog | the GtkAboutDialog in which the user activated a link. |
address | the link, mail or web address, to open. |
user_data | user data that was passed when the function was registered with `gtk_about_dialog_set_email_hook()` or `gtk_about_dialog_set_url_hook()`. This is currently unused within the context of this function, so you can safely pass `NULL` when registering this hook with GtkAboutDialog. |

Since: 0.5.0

### exo_gtk_dialog_get_action_area ()

    GtkWidget *
    exo_gtk_dialog_get_action_area (GtkDialog *dialog);

Returns the action area of a GtkDialog. The internal function has been deprecated in GTK+, so this wraps and dispels the deprecation warning.

#### Parameters

dialog | a GtkDialog. |

#### Returns

the action area.

Since: 0.11.4

### exo_gtk_dialog_add_secondary_button ()

    void
    exo_gtk_dialog_add_secondary_button (GtkDialog *dialog,
                                         GtkWidget *button);

Convenience function to add a secondary button to a GtkDialog.

#### Parameters

dialog | a GtkDialog. |
button | a GtkButton to add and mark as secondary. |

Since: 0.11.4