[Glade-devel] Re: [Glade-users] Glade Parameters

[Gabriel.de-Perthuis at laPoste.net (Gabriel de Perthuis)]

Le mercredi 18 mai 2005 ? 12:44 -0400, Tristan Van Berkom a ?crit :
> Gabriel de Perthuis wrote:
> > Le mercredi 18 mai 2005 ? 10:01 +0800, Rick Duley a ?crit :
>
> Hmmm, this was asked on the glade-users list.
>
> > > Is there some documentation that details the options available in each window of
> > > Glade? That is to say, some documentation that describes what happens to the GUI
> > > and to the code when an option is changed from 'No' to 'Yes' or when a 'Signal'
> > > is selected etc.
> >
> >
> > It's part of the gtk+ api doc - available at
> > http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/ . I recommend that you get
> > devhelp packages for your distro (offers searchability). To lookup a
> > signal, find the class that receives it, and have a look at the doc for
> > the parameter struct when it's an event. The options glade deals with
> > are gobject properties in the docs.
>
> I wonder if it would be interesting to add this to glade-3
>
>      - Generate some metadata from GTK+ (or other widget kits) source
>        code (provided the kit uses the gtk doc system)
>
>      - Add a "Help" button to any signals & properties that have
>        documentation avaiable.
>
> What do people think ?
>
> Cheers,
>                            -Tristan

This is definitely a user-friendly idea. I think Anjuta has something
like this in their code, it's worth a look. I suspect they use a
lib-ified devhelp.
I think the introspection work generates metadata in an intermediary xml
which could eventually be used, but using devhelp is more practical
today.