Re: What strategy to use to deal with Glade-3's problem in removing pixbuf directory paths in .glade file!

["Tristan Van Berkom" <tvb gnome org>]

On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Daniel Yek <dyek real com> wrote:
> Hi Tristan,
>
> Thanks for responding. My responses inlined below...
>
[...]
>> or in the specified pixbuf directory (you can add a search path with the
>> libglade api).
>> > o gdk-pixbuf's gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file() requires absolute or relative
>> > paths without resource resolution based on any environment variables. So,
>> > application can't make libglade resolves resources by setting an environment
>> > variable.
>
> I seriously doubt it that application can add search path with libglade API,
> but I might be wrong. Could you kindly point out the API function to use?
>
> libglade-2.6.2/glade/glade-xml.c
>  glade_xml_set_value_from_string()
>   case G_TYPE_OBJECT:
>     if (G_VALUE_HOLDS(value, GDK_TYPE_PIXBUF))
>     {
>       ...
>       filename = glade_xml_relative_file(xml, string);
>       pixbuf = gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file(filename, &error);
>       ...
>     }
>

My mistake, I somehow had the notion that glade_xml_relative_file() would
take user specified paths into consideration.

Cheers,
                -Tristan