Re: [glade--]some glade-- notes from a new user

[Christof Petig <christof petig-baender de>]

Graeme Lufkin wrote:
>     I'm working on my first GNOME application using glade--, and have 
> arranged some thoughts that might help other people like me.  I have 
> looked in the archives to see if these issues have been addressed and 
> fixed in cvs, and note it below (I may have missed some things).
>     1. Gnome App: glade-- forgets to add the content to the dock, the 
> dock to the window, and the status bar to the window.  This was 
> addressed earlier on the mailing list, but I don't know if it has been 
> fixed yet.
I don't know either, will look into it.

>     2. To utilize widgets after they are first painted, you probably 
> want them as members of your app's class.  To do this, first choose C++ 
> in the glade options.  Then, for every widget that you want available as 
> a member, use the Property window to change the Visibility property to 
> public.  The widget will then be a real class member, not just declared 
> as a local variable in the constructor.

I'd suggest protected, since this does not generate publicly visible macros!

>     3. When you have one or more public widgets, the support files are 
> generated (glademm_support.[hh,cc]).  I'm not sure what the functions in 
> here do.  The version I have (0.6.4) thinks that the namespace for the 
> standard library is '__STD', which I have never seen before.  I changed 
> all instance to 'std', and all works.  An issue that may have been 
> exactly this one was addressed on the mailing list at some point.

Hmm, I recall this as an old irix fix ... doesn't make too much sense to 
me now.

>     4. Making menu items local: The GNOME app that people (me) like to 
> use comes with some default menu items.  When you try to make these 
> items members of the class (via the Visibility: Public method described 
> above), glade-- says that it can't modify those menu items.
Ignore this, it's a warning!
>  I copied 
> the declarations into the _glade.hh file and removed them from the 
> constructor in _glade.cc, and the menuitems are now class members and 
> get created correctly.  However, they lose their magic accelerators (I 
> say magic because I can't figure out where it is that 'Ctrl-Q' gets 
> mapped to Exit, for example).  If you know how to change a menuitem's 
> accelerator (while still using the GNOME_UIINFO macros), let me know.

They are assigned to each stock item, you can't change them unless you 
don't use stock items (you might use stock pictures).

>     That's just some of the issues I have with glade--.  If you have any 
> more, or if you have comments/a better way to do it/suggestions for 
> anything mentioned above, let me know.  I think gtkmm and glade-- are 
> great, but somebody needs to jump on the documentation bandwagon (not it!).
Agreed. But I don't have time to spare to document glade--.

   Christof