[Glade-users] XML to Source Code?

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

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:22 PM, Jianchun Zhou <jianchun.zhou at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you very much.
>
> Here in my glade file there is a object of type GtkWindow, Now I want to
> replace it with another object of type
>
> GtkMyWindow which inherits from GtkWindow.
>
> What should I do?

Few things you could do; first start with this:
    http://people.gnome.org/~tvb/testcatalog.xml

Thats an example of a catalog that spoofs a type
with minimal effort and even adds a propery virtually using the xml catalog
format; put it in a directory and fire up Glade with:

GLADE_CATALOG_PATH=~/my_directory glade-3

You can also get Glade to load and introspect your window's properties
and automatically put them in the editor; which is a matter of telling
the same xml catalog where to load the library with your widget inside.

For more information make sure you flip through the first few chapters of:
    http://library.gnome.org/devel/gladeui/3.6/

Note that after the type is encoded in the glade file then GtkBuilder should
be able to dynamically load your object at run time simply by name.

Cheers,
        -Tristan


> Thanks.
>
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Tristan Van Berkom
> <tristan.van.berkom at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 9:47 PM, Jianchun Zhou <jianchun.zhou at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > Dear List:
> > >
> > > In Glade 3, how can I get source code from glade xml file?
> >
> > You dont; you use the GtkBuilder api to parse it and build the interface
> > for your application; GtkBuilder is a part of GTK+ and so should be
> > available in your language binding (if you are using one).
> >
> > Cheers,
> > ? ? -Tristan
>
>
>
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> Best Regards