Re: radio groups in libglade

[jacob berkman <jacob trna ximian com>]

On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, James Henstridge wrote:

> jacob berkman wrote:
> 
> >On Sat, 2001-11-17 at 20:29, James Henstridge wrote:
> >
> >>jacob berkman wrote:
> >>
> >>>so it seems radio groups are currently ignored in libglade.
> >>>
> >>>the groups hash table is in the private field of GladeXML, so some api
> >>>is needed to support this.
> >>>
> >>>james, did you have in mind something for this?
> >>>
> >>That code in libglade should probably be removed.  Michael added support 
> >>for handling radio item groups in libglade-convert.  It now uses the 
> >>"group" property of GtkRadioButtons and GtkRadioMenuItems, which gives 
> >>the name of the first button/menu item in the group, which means no 
> >>special support is needed in libglade.
> >>
> >
> >GtkRadioMenuItem has no group property, but i should be able to do a
> >custom property for it.
> >
> It would be more useful to add the property to GtkRadioMenuItem, rather 
> than hacking around the lack of the property.  The gtk+ maintainers said 
> that the API freeze didn't cover missing properties, so this is the 
> correct way to fix the problem (and is much more useful to other users 
> of gtk+).

i had asked owen on irc and he said no.

jacob
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