Re: Integrating gnome-db and Glade?

[Rodrigo Moya Piernavieja <rmoya tsai es>]

Damon Chaplin wrote:

> Brian Jepson wrote:
> >
> > I'm currently working on the GNOME chapter for a new book on Linux
> > database development.  The GNOME chapter is going to show readers how to
> > do some simple GTK+ stuff, and then rapidly progress to using Glade and
> > libglade to build user interfaces.
> >
> > Is it possible to use the gnome-db widgets with glade in some way?  On the
> > GTK+ Additional pallete, I see an option for a Custom Widget, which allows
> > you to supply a creation function. Is this flexible enough to support a
> > gnome-db widget, and if so, are there any examples of using gnome-db
> > widgets in a .glade XML file?
>
> I was intending to start work on this, but I haven't managed to get gnome-db
> working myself yet. And I'm very busy with other things.
>
> You can use the Custom widget thing for any kind of widget. You just have
> to provide the function to create the widget. It isn't ideal though.
>
> Are the gnome-db widgets mature enough for real use yet?
>

Yes, they are, not all of them, but the basic ones are quite mature, specially
the grid, list, combo, icon_list widgets, as well as the GnomeDbBrowser widget.

Although there are some of them which are quite inmature (if not just started),
as the GnomeDbReport widget.

Cheers