How can I add icon from resource?

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I can use gtk_button_set_icon_name, to set a button’s icon from default icons. What if I have and icon as gresource. How can I set the icon? It seems in gtk4 I cant use GtkImage on a button.

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You can use gtk_image_new_from_resource():

GtkWidget *image = gtk_image_new_from_resource ("/com/example/resource.png");
GtkWidget *button = gtk_button_new ();

gtk_container_add (GTK_CONTAINER (button), image);
gtk_widget_show (image);

GtkButton is a container, so you can pack widgets into it—which is what the GtkButton API in GTK3 does.

This should also answer you question about GTK4: you can still use images with GtkButton by packing them into your button.

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Or add your icons to the usual icon theme using https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/GtkIconTheme.html#gtk-icon-theme-add-resource-path, then you can refer to them by icon name.

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Though this will popup another question of adding a path that is in resource. If it’s in the file system cool but if it in compiled resources how would I reference that

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Like this: https://wiki.gnome.org/HowDoI/ThemedIcons

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