[Glade-users] Glade questions.

[damon ximian com (Damon Chaplin)]

Matthew Tuck wrote:
> James Cameron wrote:
>
> > > Basically the point is to define groups of things that you can disable
> > > at once, especially menu items and stuff.  As far as I know GTK+
> > > doesn't support this, my thought was that Glade could support groups,
> > > and it could automatically generate functions to toggle groups en
> > > masse.
> > Yes, GTK+ doesn't support this directly, nor does Glade.  Nor should
> > they, in my opinion.  It adds unnecessary complexity that only a few UI
> > designers would use.
>
> I beg to differ.  A lot of applications would use this.  In fact, I have
> much more trouble thinking of those that don't than those that do.
>
> Consider a word processor.  What "modes" might there be?  Off the top of
> my head:
>
> Is the a selection?  If not, we want Cut and Copy (at least) to be
> disabled.
> Is the document empty?  If so, we want Find, Replace (at least) to be
> disabled.
> Are we in a table?  If not, disable the table stuff.
>
> I could go on, but there's not much point.
>
> The point here is that I believe it is easier to define within Glade the
> condition when the widget is disabled on the widget (where it belongs)
> than to try and maintain kludgy lists of widgets which you need to make
> sure you update.

I don't think it would be easy to define the conditions for
de-sensitizing
widgets. I think this probably has to be done by the application.

Damon