On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 22:19 +0100, Magnus Therning wrote:
> Is there such an extension somewhere that I can use as a guide for
> performing the same sort of magic?
>
> I have an extension that needs some configuration by the user and I
> think it'd be best to include that configuration in the preferences
> dialogue rather than add a new extension-specific preferences dialogue.
No, this hasn't been done before. You can use
ephy_shell_get_prefs_dialog() to start. I've played with the Python
Console a bit, and here's what I came up with. I suggest you open the
Python Console and type in the following to see what happens at each
step:
>>> import epiphany
>>> shell = epiphany.ephy_shell_get_default() # an EphyShell
>>> dialog = shell.get_prefs_dialog() # an EphyDialog
>>> dialog.show() # the Python Console is interactive! Whee!
>>> notebook = dialog.get_control("prefs_notebook") # a GtkNotebook
>>> import gtk # to make widgets to append
>>> notebook.append_page(gtk.Label("Hello, world!"), gtk.Label("Hello
World Test")) # the entire page is just the gtk.Label("Hello, world!")
4
>>> notebook.show_all() # the page isn't visible until we show() it
... and when done:
>>> notebook.remove_page(4) # notebook.append_page() returned 4
I don't think the show_all() should really be there, and the new prefs
page should obviously contain more than just a GtkLabel, but you get the
idea.
And the dialog doesn't seem to close the first time I click the "Close"
button -- it only closes on the second. I'm assuming this has to do with
the way I'm calling "dialog.show()" -- Christian, can you see off-hand
what's wrong?
I've just got to reiterate the general caution I always give when people
talk about adding preferences: do you really NEED to do it? That dialog
doesn't really look nice with more than 4 tabs... and if *you* add that
to your extension, everybody else will start doing it, too :). Imagine
the prefs dialog with 7-8 tabs: it'd be a disaster.
Though I do wonder if we should add some helper APIs for preferences. I
forget how EphyDialog works, but I don't think there's a simple way to
add new widgets and have them auto-connect to GConf -- at least, not
with the EphyDialog API. Maybe there's some other simple utility
function in GConf or egg which does it. I'm too lazy to look into any of
this now.
Good luck!
--
Adam Hooper <adamh densi com>
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