Re: Dynamic Dialog generation

["BrYan P. Johnson" <b johnson corp earthlink net>]

Bob Wilkinson <bob aldigital co uk> writes:
> Hello
>
>      I've been trying to emulate the functionality of a CGI program through the
> Perl interface to Glade. I think, however, I'm approaching this wrongly...
>
>      I want an application to have the ability to display a dialog box, with, 
> for example, one input box and two checkboxes. If the user entered 7 into the 
> input box and checked both of the boxes, I would like then to be able to 
> display a subsequent dialog box which contained seven pairs of input boxes. 
> i.e. the contents of the second dialog box is dependent on the values entered to
> the first. Of course, I'd then like to tie the values entered to the second
> dialog box via callbacks to the original application.
>
>    Realising that my inelegant hack was perhaps best left alone, I have decided
> to solicit any suggestion from this list.

Gtk::Dialogs may be the way to go. It's a convenience module wrapping some gtk functions.

It takes a hash as an argument, uses that to create a dialog, and
returns a hash of values based on what was entered in the dialog.

BrYan