Re: More GnomeAbout

[Chas Owens <alas widomaker com>]

Quoting Pascal <evilynux yahoo com>:

> > This is what I use:
> > 
> > Gnome2::About->new(
> >         'program-name',  #executable name goes here
> >         '0.1',           #version
> >         'copyright me',  #your copyright notice
> >         'comments'       #a brief description of your program
> >         ['me', 'that other guy'], #arrayref of authors
> > )->show; 
> 
> I know i can do it that way,
> but the thing is that i thought using GladeXML was cleaner...
> 
> I'm not sure, but i think that with Gnome-1.2, the GnomeAbout takes both
> the name and the version
> from the values given at init (Gnome::init($NAME, $NAME, $VERSION)).
> 
> Even tho with gnome-2.0 it's more like Gnome2::Program->init ($NAME,
> $VERSION, 'libgnomeui'); it
> seems that GnomeAbout works different.
> 
> -Pascal

I have found that it is easier to create the Gnome::About window myself in a
callback attached to the menu item about.  Glade is nice, but the small stuff is
often easier to do by hand.  Example:

sub mi_about_activate {
        Gnome2::About->new(
                'program-name',  #executable name goes here
                '0.1',           #version  
                'copyright me',  #your copyright notice
                'comments'       #a brief description of your program
                ['me', 'that other guy'], #arrayref of authors
        )->show; 
} 


vs 

sub mi_about_activate {
        my $glade = Gtk2::GladeXML->new('application.glade', 'about_window');
        $glade->signal_autoconnect_from_package('AboutWindow');
}

package AboutWindow;

        sub on_dialog_close {
                my ($dialog) = @_;
                $dialog->hide;
                return 1;
        }