Slint Kit Documentation

Buttons and actions

KitIconButton

Square icon button for a compact action.

Square icon button for a compact action.
Native screenshot of the same example, rendered with Skia.

Choose icon: IconKind.check and always supply an accessible-name describing the action. Handle activated as with KitPressable.

Its recipe sizes the button from control-size and preserves inherited focus, hover and disabled states. The icon adds no separate keyboard target.

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Complete example

This complete Slint file is a visual composition used to produce the screenshot above. Internal strings without a label property retain the kit’s default language; system dialogs follow the host platform. Projected state and callbacks requesting a decision need host wiring; the standalone fixture does not supply that controller. Set up the Rust project, then see the typed controller application for working editing, validation and selection.

// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
import { IconKind, KitIconButton, KitTheme, KitThemes } from "@kit/kit.slint";

export component Example inherits Window {
    title: "KitIconButton example";
    preferred-width: 320px;
    preferred-height: 150px;
    max-width: 100000px;
    max-height: 100000px;
    background: root.theme.canvas;
    in-out property <KitTheme> theme: KitThemes.light;
    in-out property <string> status;
    VerticalLayout {
        padding: 24px; spacing: 16px; alignment: start;
        Text { text: "Icon Button"; color: root.theme.text-primary; font-size: 20px * root.theme.text-scale; font-weight: 600; }
        KitIconButton { theme: root.theme; icon: IconKind.plus; accessible-name: "New project"; activated => { root.status = "New project requested"; } }
        if root.status != "": Text { text: root.status; color: root.theme.text-secondary; font-size: 12px * root.theme.text-scale; wrap: word-wrap; }
    }
}

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Public API

Inherits KitPressable. The declarations below come from the component source. Parent properties remain available; see the controller guide for state management.

Properties

Name Type Direction
icon IconKind in

Types and variants

Names below use Slint syntax. Shared Rust domain types live in slint_kit; presentation enums come from the Rust types generated by Slint.

Type Declaration
enum IconKind chevron-down, chevron-left, chevron-right, close, eye, eye-hidden, search, check, minus, plus, arrow-up-right, warning, chevron-up, bell, menu, information, article, home, grid, copy, upload, download, heart, cart, clock, settings, file, trash

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