Re: MDI help

[Robert Parkhurst <raparkhurst tlu edu>]

First off, thanks for your help!!  It's nice to hear from other
developers that can help put me in the right direction.  To better help
you with this situation, I'll give you the readers digest of the
project...

Let me start with saying that I am a geek.  My girlfriends birthday is
coming up in March (March 16th) and I wanted to do something for her
that was truly unique.  For our 6th month aniv. she made me a memory
book and so I am wanting to do the same, but make the memory book a
GNOME application.  Each page would be a tab.  And then in the tab, it
would be a GnomeCanvas to allow for pictures and background color, etc.

I've got a book on GNOME programming that says MDI is good (although
it's for GNOME 1.x).  And I don't need to use the MDI widget(s), but I
do need to be able to simultaneously display a notebook widget (or
something similar) and a menu (and possibly toolbars).

Again, I am terribly new to GNOME programming.  I am using this project
as a way to be unique for her and also to "jump-start" me into GNOME
development (force me to learn and all).  ANY help you can offer would
be gold to me!

I've tried displaying a statusbar at the bottom and menu bar at the top,
but when I go to display the notebook widget, it never gets displayed? 
Any ideas?

Anyway, I hope this info helps out for now.  I don't want to make this
email too long!  Thanks again guys!

-Robert

On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 09:55, John Palmieri wrote:
> 
> I don't think he realy means MDI but more like a tabbed interface like
> gEdit or Galeon.  Reading the HIG is a good idea none the less.  As for
> the problem are you using Glade or doing this by hand? In Glade you can
> set a window's default width and height.  If you are doing it by hand
> there should be an accociated property for this.  Look at the docs for
> GtkWindow on gtk.org.
> 
> --
> J5
> 
> On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 10:36, Sean Middleditch wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 08:49, Robert Parkhurst wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I am new to GNOME development and am having a hard time with MDI's.  I
> > > need to create an application that has multiple tabs.  So far it's
> > > working so-so, but my window always comes up and is just as big as my
> > > menu is.  I'm creating a MDI window application.  How can I make my
> > > window a certain size (say, 600x400) on initial start up?
> > 
> > So far as I recall, MDI is a big no-no in GNOME, and with good reason -
> > read the GNOME HIG (something you should always be familiar with
> > anyways, if you're doing GNOME application development).
> > 
> > > 
> > > -Robert
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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