Re: porting to new gtk widgets

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

On 24/10/2003 12:21 AM, Mark McLoughlin wrote:

> Hey,	
> 	So I decided to port the panel from the APIs that are deprecated in
> gtk+ HEAD. I thought it would be an easy enough job until I hit the
> first deprecated widget in a glade file :-)
>
> 	We can't really hope to port from things like GtkOptionMenu to
> GtkComboBox if glade/libglade does not yet support GtkComboBox. So if
> someone is looking for a really helpful, but pretty straightforward
> project, then this is it ! We really need support for those new APIs in
> glade ...
>  
Sure.  I will have to do a bit more hacking on libglade to bring it up 
to speed for gtk 2.4.  Note however that libglade already has basic 
support for GtkComboBox -- If you put a line like the following in your 
program:
   /* we use volatile here so that the compiler doesn't optimise this 
away */
   volatile GType dummy_type = GTK_TYPE_COMBO_BOX;

Then libglade will be able to construct a GtkComboBox if found in the 
glade file (how well this works depends on how good the property support 
in the widget is).

James.

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