[Glade-devel] Embedding the design window

[lluis at ximian.com (Lluis Sanchez)]

Hi,

> It seems like just special-casing GtkWindow a little will get us there
> without having to use a different type of container to "mock" the
> GtkWindow... also maybe a "containing" plug widget...
>
> Now I'm wondering if we can offer some kind of sane API for IDE's here
> to make it easy to implement; It seems that we need to optionally embed
> toplevel in other widgets that will respond well to resizes,
>
> for example: say you wanted to display a notebook where each tab
> was an open project in glade; in each tab you display a GtkHBox
> inside a scrolled window which lists the toplevels from top down;
> the issue I see is that those GtkWindows that are "non-toplevels"
> will want to resize to fill up the space in the GtkHBox
>
> So we'd need to have a "top-level" container that would resize while
> adding extra "gray space" outside the window (and draw a cute border);
> and keep the GtkWindow's "default size" (or current natural size) as its
> "size-request" (therefore refusing to shrink).
>
> What do you think ?

That would be really useful. It would be something like the container I
have (which draws the window border and takes care of resizing) but more
generic (mine only can show one window at a fixed position).

Lluis.