[Glade-devel] GnomeDb Catalog for Glade3 - Questions and First XML version

[esodan at gmail.com (Daniel Espinosa)]

Ok I have finished the catalog (XML & c files) of Gnome-DB, please take a
review before I'll continue to testing installing Glade3 and GnomeDB.

Could you help me with the stocks?, if I want to set an icon from stock what
is the paramenters Glade3 sends to use in the function (see the c source)

I'll install Glade3 and follow the steps to install the catalog and C file,
but may be I need to modify some MakeFiles in Glade3, becouse I don't know
what to do about it, could you help me to include in the may source code of
Glade3 and sendme a copy to test with Gnome-Db please?

2006/7/4, Tristan Van Berkom <tristan.van.berkom at gmail.com>:
> Daniel Espinosa wrote:
>
> > If I have a property in a Widget, Do I need to define a function to
> > set it
> > or Glade3 use g_object_set (May be using a GladeProperty object) to sets
> > properties of the Widget? If is it, do I need to write in the property
> > "id"
> > in the catalog the exact name of the Widget's property defined in the
> > API?
>
> The glade3 core will detect all the properties installed on the GObject
> and
> display them in the editor and set the object's value in the runtime when
> it
> changes.
>
> It is up to you to disable any properties that dont make sence to have
> in the glade file... also, if its inapropriate to actually set the value
> on the
> runtime object, it is up to you to say so (by marking that property with
> the
> "ignore" property).
>
> setter functions are only needed to update values that cant be updated in
> a normal way... or when using a virtual property to augment the experience
> (like the builtin "stock" property type: you need to trap it's state in
> order
> to set the appropriate meaningfull properties on the object itself), or
> when
> doing anything fancy or extra complex :)
>
> Sometimes its also needed to handle incomming properties at load time, for
> example, the GtkButton is a little complex because there are various ways
> to
> set one up. At load time it must determine whether the virtual "edit mode"
> property is going to be CONTAINER, LABEL or STOCK (similar code is  needed
> for GtkImage).
>
> > If in the widget's API  expose a function to set that property, do I
> > need to
> > use that function or allow Glade3 to set it self?
> >
> > This is becouse I notice that in gnome catalog exist some properties
> that
> > don't define a function to set it, just sets the id and the default
> > value.
>
> Yes,
>     sometimes its a good thing to change the default of a property on
> a widget instead of using the default defined by the GParamSpec,
> for example, we set all non-toplevel widgets `visible="True"' by default.
>
> Note also an important part is i18n'ness, all the enum and flag types
> should
> have displayable-values declared (they are a more human-readable and also
> translatable form of the enum values to be used in the editor).
>
> Note also that all the values in the catalog are translatable are
> mentioned
> in the docs (title, name, tooltip and the widget group name), they
> should all
> be marked for translation in the catalog.xml.in file (this ensures that
> the po
> files are also updated).
>
> I hope I've clarified some things for you, feel free to ask more
> questions :)
>
> Cheers,
>                                             -Tristan


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