[Glade-users] using images in glade2

[damon karuna uklinux net (Damon Chaplin)]

On Sat, 2000-01-01 at 00:18, Evil Kosh wrote:
> Hi
>
> I've got a glade2 project and I created a Splash window, which just
> displays an image for starting up and hides it again once it's all
> loaded up.
>
> All I did was to create the window, in the container add an image, the
> properties shows it to be a GtkImage object and I've set the icon (funny
> name for an image isnt it, is this a bug which is getting fixed,
> terminology issues like this can throw people off) to an image I have on
> the disk, which is located in the applications data subdir
>
> {$HOME}/Code/cvs/solarcell/src/data/splash.png
>
> is the file I've added to my project, something that I dont think is
> quite right with glade is that from the executables pov, the image is
>
> ./data/splash.png
>
> but from glade, that might be
>
> ./src/data/splash.png
>
> so how exactly is it going to generate correct code?
>
> anyway, when I run the application, it doesnt show, it tells me it can't
> find pixmap splash.png
>
> so anyone know why this would be?

When you set the icon/image, Glade normally copies it into the 'pixmaps'
subdirectory of your project. Did you change the pixmaps directory in
the project options? If you changed it to "src/data" then it is up to
you to change the Makefile.am files to make sure the pixmaps get
installed in the right place. I'd recommend leaving the pixmaps
subdirectory set to just "pixmaps" unless you know what you are doing.

Also, you need to do a 'make install' before running the application or
it won't be able to find the pixmaps.

Damon