Re: [anjuta-devel] GDL placeholder

[Sébastien Granjoux <seb sfo free fr>]

Hi James,


Le 09/05/2012 08:38, James Liggett a écrit :
> My latest example of this phenomenon came up over the weekend when I was
> trying to get git shell to display the Status view by default. The
> obvious thing to do (I think) is to tell gdl to show the dock item with
> gdl_dock_show_item, but that doesn't work because non-floating docks
> like the ones used for git shell views need to have a "default position"
> set on them, whatever that is. So I try to call
> gdl_dock_item_set_default_position only to find that it requires some
> kind of "reference" object, but I have no idea what would work for this.
> Giving it a pointer to the dock just gives me another critical and now I
> have no idea what to do next because no one knows what the hell any of
> this means.

Looking at the code, I think gdl_dock_item_show_item is not what you 
need. In GDL context, hiding an item means removing from the layout, so 
showing an item is adding it to layout which is not what you want. I 
think you can do what you want, by setting the page property of the dock 
item.

I have just seen that you have added a layer over GDL in the git plugin. 
So looking at your code, I think you can get it by doing the following:

	GtkContainer *dock_item = g_object_get_data (G_OBJECT 
(anjuta_dock_pane_get_widget (ANJUTA_DOCK_PANE 
(git_plugin->stash_pane))), "dock-item");
	g_object_set (G_OBJECT (gdl_dock_object_get_parent_object 
(GDL_DOCK_OBJECT (dock_item))), "page", 0, NULL);

I'm agree that it's not obvious. By the way, why AnjutaDockPane does not 
derive from a GdlDockItem?


Regards,

Sébastien