[gtk+] Expand GtkBuilder migration guide
- From: Matthias Clasen <matthiasc src gnome org>
- To: svn-commits-list gnome org
- Subject: [gtk+] Expand GtkBuilder migration guide
- Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 23:43:14 -0400 (EDT)
commit 1f1db4f28861aafe3c8611b7b0d1269f6259e8a0
Author: Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com>
Date: Thu Apr 9 23:42:44 2009 -0400
Expand GtkBuilder migration guide
---
docs/reference/gtk/migrating-GtkBuilder.sgml | 79 +++++++++++++++++++++----
1 files changed, 66 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
diff --git a/docs/reference/gtk/migrating-GtkBuilder.sgml b/docs/reference/gtk/migrating-GtkBuilder.sgml
index f406ab3..a85ea68 100644
--- a/docs/reference/gtk/migrating-GtkBuilder.sgml
+++ b/docs/reference/gtk/migrating-GtkBuilder.sgml
@@ -16,15 +16,66 @@
A good way to start a migration from libglade to GtkBuilder is
to run the <link linkend="gtk-builder-convert">gtk-builder-convert</link>
utility on your glade file, and inspect the resulting output.
- If your code uses the @root parameter of glade_xml_new(), you
+ If your code uses the @root parameter of glade_xml_new(), you
may want to split your glade file into multiple GtkBuilder files
- by using the <option>--root</option> option of
+ by using the <option>--root</option> option of
<application>gtk-builder-convert</application>. Alternatively, you
can use gtk_builder_add_objects_from_file() to construct only certain
objects from a GtkBuilder file.
</para>
<para>
+ Alternatively, you can open the glade file with
+ <application>glade3</application> and then save it in GtkBuilder
+ format. This is supported by glade3 since version 3.6.
+ </para>
+
+ <table pgwide="1" frame="topbot">
+ <title>Step-by-step instructions for porting code from libglade to GtkBuilder</title>
+ <tgroup cols="2" colsep="0" rowsep="0">
+ <thead>
+ <row><entry>libglade</entry><entry>GtkBuilder</entry></row>
+ </thead>
+ <tbody>
+ <row>
+ <entry><![CDATA[#include <glade/glade.h>]]></entry>
+ <entry>not needed</entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry><screen>GladeXML*</screen></entry>
+ <entry><screen>GtkBuilder*</screen></entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry><screen>glade_xml_new (FILE, "first_widget", NULL)</screen></entry>
+ <entry>
+<screen>
+GError* error = NULL;
+GtkBuilder* builder = gtk_builder_new (<!-- -->);
+if (!gtk_builder_add_from_file (builder, FILE, &error))
+ {
+ g_warning ("Couldn't load builder file: %s", error->message);
+ g_error_free (error);
+ }
+</screen>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry><screen>glade_xml_get_widget (gxml, â??widget_nameâ??)</screen></entry>
+ <entry><screen>GTK_WIDGET (gtk_builder_get_object (builder, â??widget_nameâ??))</screen></entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry><screen>glade_get_widget_name (widget)</screen></entry>
+ <entry><screen>gtk_widget_get_name (widget)</screen></entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry><screen>glade_xml_get_widget_prefix (gxml, â??prefixâ??)</screen></entry>
+ <entry>can be emulated by <literal>gtk_builder_get_objects (builder)</literal> together with manual filtering. It returns a GSList* instead of a GList* though.</entry>
+ </row>
+ </tbody>
+ </tgroup>
+ </table>
+
+ <para>
While GtkBuilder strives to be a complete replacement for
libglade, there are a number of areas where it is currently
still behind libglade:
@@ -32,21 +83,23 @@
<listitem><para>
GtkBuilder supports context information in translatable
- properties in a slightly different way than libglade.
- Intltool does not yet support this; see
- <ulink url="http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=454894">bug
- 454894</ulink> for the current status of intltool support for
- GtkBuilder files. Thankfully, context in translations is a
- rarely used feature, and if you are not using it, intltools
+ properties in a slightly different way than libglade.
+ Intltool does not yet support this; see
+ <ulink url="http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=454894">bug
+ 454894</ulink> for the current status of intltool support for
+ GtkBuilder files. Thankfully, context in translations is a
+ rarely used feature, and if you are not using it, intltools
glade format support works just fine for GtkBuilder files.
</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>
+ While libglade can often tolerate multiple widgets having the
+ same id in a glade file, GtkBuilder will not accept duplicate
+ object ids. Both <application>gtk-builder-convert</application>
+ and the GtkBuilder parser emit warnings when they see
+ duplicate ids.
+ </para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
- <para>
- More details about migrating from libglade to GtkBuilder will
- appear here over time...
- </para>
-
</chapter>
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