Fwd: [Glade-users] custom widgets: please help

[Neil Zanella <nzanella gmail com> (Neil Zanella)]

Hello,

Could someone please show me how to accomplish the following task:

1.  create a small widget with two buttons with glade
2.  use libglade to make a constructor C function for it
3.  make it show up in glade application, and have glade
     actually render the widget as I place it down in glade

Thanks,

I really appreciate it,

Neil



On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 18:47:08 -0400, Tristan Van Berkom
<tristan van berkom gmail com> wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 15:23:18 -0600, Neil Zanella <nzanella gmail com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am new to glade. I searched the mailing list archives but could
> > not find an answer to my particular question/scenario.
> >
> > In the glade "Palette" window there is a button with a blue "C" on it
> > such that when the cursor is moved over it a tooltip shows up displaying
> > the message "Custom Widget". When this button is pressed and the user
> > clicks on the widget layout window a new widget filled with blue "C"s
> > shows up.
> [...]
>
>     Just to make sure we are on the same page and are not confused in our terms
> etc. A "custom widget" is a GtkWidget class derivitive that does not come with
> the GTK+ libraries (or gnome libs for that matter), it is a widget
> that you probably
> wrote yourself with its own unique GType.
>
> Glade has a mechanism that allows you to create your custom widget regardless
> of the fact that it has not been implemented in the glade editor code.
>
> The way it works, is that you provide the stub name (I think the editor calls it
> the "creation function") and then you are allowed to provide a few paramaters
> for your creation function (string1 and string2 iirc).
>
> Whether you generate code, or make use of libglade (which btw is recommendable
> for a bunch of reasons that I wont begin to discuss right now), you will have to
> write the "creation function" yourself.
>
> I hope this makes things a little more clear for you ;-)
>
> Cheers,
>                                               -Tristan