Re: Newbie question.

[Michael Meeks <michael helixcode com>]

Hi Martin,

On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Martin Sevior wrote:
>        Is it possible to construct a Bonobo property-bag of functions
> and export it via an ORBit server without wrapping everything in a
> GtkWidget?

        I don't quite understand what you are trying to achieve; let me
make a few guesses:

Q.
        1. Export CORBA function pointers of some sort via a property bag
        2. Not use GtkObjects inside your bonobo code
        3. Not use GtkWidget to export a Control.

A.
        1. No, no such thing is possible; it would be evil and nasty to do
this, whilst CORBA has a nice type system it is totaly broken wrt.
introspecting interfaces; you want to write a chunk of IDL to export your
interfaces.
        
        2. No way to do this until Gnome 2.0 when we will switch to
GObjects
        
        3. You can write custom rendering things inside a control as long
as in some way you can fit them into a widget; perhaps render to an off
screen buffer and whack to a drawing area, steal the X window id or
somesuch; either way a bonobo_control wants / needs a widget.
        
        3.<alt>. You don't need to export a widget interface you could
implement a canvas item instead perhaps.

> I want to enable scripting of Abiword via a remote program so that  
> (initially at least) we do need to display any GUI stuff in a remote
> container.
        
        Scripting should be done by constructing CORBA interfaces for your
functionality and wrapping these around your internal structure, currently
this involves lots of boilerplate typing; you'd do best to copy the
echo-client and modify the IDL perhaps.

        Regards,
  
                Michael.

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