[Glade-devel] One preview per "topmost" widget

[tristan.van.berkom at gmail.com (Tristan Van Berkom)]

2010/10/30 Marco Diego Aur?lio Mesquita <marcodiegomesquita at gmail.com>:
> 2010/10/30 Tristan Van Berkom <tristan.van.berkom at gmail.com>:
> > 2010/10/30 Marco Diego Aur?lio Mesquita <marcodiegomesquita at gmail.com>:
> > > This is my plan to implement one preview per "topmost" widget in glade:
> > >
> > > ?- Escalate the widget tree (using gtk_widget_get_parent).
> > > ?- Check (using gtk_widget_get_name and a list of the names of
> > > widgets currently been previewed) if such widget is already been
> > > previewed.
> > > ? ?- If it is already been previewed, update the whole interface.
> > > ? ?- If not, launch a preview.
> >
> > Perhaps GladePreview object must be an object belonging
> > to the GladeWidget itself... when the toplevel gets a parent
> > added to it... the preview should then be placed on the parent.
>
> Hmmm... This is fundamentally different from what we're doing right
> now. What you're proposing would include an api extension to
> GladeWidget so that it would have a preview method and take care to
> kill the previewer process by the destructor (most of it is treated by
> GladeProject now), is that?

No, that code must be moved into a GladePreview object anyway,
other than that yes the preview would have to be launched by
GladeWidget.