gtk_dialog_cauldron - create complex dialogs REALLY FAST!

[Paul Sheer <psheer obsidian co za>]

I don't know if this has been announced or who is using it:

gtk_dialog_cauldron() is a part of the lignomeui library. It is a function
in the vein of printf for creating complex dialog boxes with a single C
function call.

gtk_dialog_cauldron takes an format string with percent-format-specifiers
to describe different widgets. The format string is an intuative
representation of the dialog.

See gnome-libs/devel-docs/gtk_dialog_cauldron.3 for an exhaustive
description.

Some of the things you can do are:
	- complex options notebooks
	- search/replace dialogs
	- scrollable nested window frames
	- automatic underbar accelerators

gtk_dialog_cauldron also has a python wrapper that comes with the Pygnome
package. This makes for extremely fast User Interface development under
Python.

Here is an example of a search replace dialog in C:
    x = gtk_dialog_cauldron ("Search", 0,
           " ( %Ld | %Eod ) / %[ ( %Cd // %Cd // %Cd ) ]seo / ( %Bqrxfp || %Bqxfp ) ",
       /* %L */       "Enter search string:",
       /* %E */       &search_string,
       /* %[ */       "Search options",
       /* %C */       "Case sensitive", &case_sensitive,
       /* %C */       "Whole words only", &whole_word,
       /* %C */       "Regular expression", &regular_expression,
       /* %B */       "Ok",
       /* %B */       "Cancel");


-paul


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