Re: a couple of libglade api additions

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

jacob berkman wrote:

> in doing gnomeui support for libglade, i've come across a couple of
> libglade functions that need to be made public.
>
> the _get_toplevel() is needed to add dock items to GnomeApp (otherwise
> any GnomeApps done in glade are useless).
Is such a function really needed?  Shouldn't it be possible to do 
something like this in the dock's build_children() routine?:
 GnomeApp *app = gtk_widget_get_ancestor (dock, GNOME_TYPE_APP);
 ...

 if (app)
   use the GnomeApp function to pack the child
 else
    use the normal BonoboDock method.

(this is what the stable branch does).

In the build_children() routine, the container widget should already 
have been added to its parent, so the normal gtk functions for walking 
the container heirachy should work.  Or am I missing something here?

> i think the second is needed if you are building your child widgets
> manually... there might be a different way to do this.
>
> these changes are in the previously-internal libglade support apis, not
> the application apis, so again they do not affect any applications
> (except if they use GnomeApp with libglade - then they will actually be
> usable).
>
> btw james - in the gnome support i am re-registering bonobo-dock,
> because i need it to behave differently when used with GnomeApp (it
> needs to make a gnome_app_ call which can't be done in libbonoboui).  is
> there a better way to do this?
The reregistration should work fine (it is done a number of times in the 
stable branch in the gnome support code).

Exporting set_packing_properties() looks fine.

James.

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