Re: [gnomemm] Re: gnomemm-list digest, Vol 1 #266 - 3 msgs

[Christof Petig <christof petig-baender de>]

Daniel Pixley schrieb:
> I too am new to Gtkmm and am working on doing this same thing.  Here is
> where I am at:  I am using Glademm to generate the basic GUI outline.  I
> used a 'Dialog Box' (in the Glade tools) to create my popup dialog
> window.  The window is Modal, since the user needs to take care of the
> popup dialog before anything else happens.  
>
> An interesting problem I had with Glade is that it is supposed to allow
> you to create the outline of a signal.  A _glade file is created that
> creates virtual functions to represent your signals.  The actual class
> you use for the signals is inherited from the _glade file.  The entire
> philosophy behind Glade is that the programmer doesn't touch the _glade
> files, but only the files inherited from the _glade files.  But with the
> 'Dialog' windows created in Glade (basically this allows you to
> customize your input window with text entries and such), the signals do
> not get created in the _glade files.  I had to break the Glade
> philosophy by manually inserting the callbacks.  This fixed the problem,
> but still breaks the Glade philosophy.

??? not very clear ??? I assume you have problems with glademm, the C++ 
code generating backend of glade.

I also assume that you report the fact that glademm does not write 
virtual callbacks into the foo_glade.h file? Did you hit the create code 
button again? I never heard of glademm not generating callbacks in the 
_glade class (it does not create them for you in the user class by design).


>   quick_dialog *quick_dialog = new class quick_dialog();
>   quick_dialog->run();
> int result = quick_dialog->run();
> 			//do somemthing (get contents of input)

why don't you set the visibilty of the text box to public and use
   quick_dialog->text1->get_buffer()->get_text()

?

> My problem at this point is writing a function for saving what is in the
> text entry box when the user clicks the OK button (this is separate than
> what happens in the above switch statement  The above switch statement
> will have a getInput() function that will return the contents of input
> to the main program.  So, the above switch statement is inside the main
> program, which creates a quick_dialog object.  The quick_dialog object
> has a signal for the cancel and ok buttons when pressed.  This is
> described below.  After the Ok button is clicked, and input is stored,
> the above switch statement needs to get the contents of input.) I have
> this so far for:
>
> void quick_dialog::on_quick_okbutton1_clicked()
> {
> 	input = *quick_input->get_text();
> }
>
> Where 'input' is a const gchar*.  I get an error saying that the
> compiler cannot convert a ustring to a gchar, however.  I'm not sure why
> I am getting this error since get_text() is supposed to return a pointer
> to a gchar, not a ustring.  How do I use get_text() to store what is in
> an entry into a local variable?

TextBuffer::get_text returns a ustring.

> This post is probably a bit confusing, and I apologize for this. I may
> also be taking a more difficult route to this problem.  If anyone can
> post some insight, particularly to my problem of returning the result of
> get_text() to a local variable, please reply.  

It is. If some issues still exist, retry

  Yours
      Christof
[glademm maintainer]

PS: I CC the glademm list. Please remove gnomemm-list on reply.