Re: mixing widgets via glade and standard way ? (newbie)

[Fred Mueller <fmue pab-opto de>]

On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 11:19:55AM -0200, Tristan Van Berkom wrote:
> On Feb 3, 2008 8:41 AM, Fred Müller <fmue pab-opto de> wrote:
....
> > Are standard gtk calls failing since glade changes some internal
> > callbacks when creating the table, or am I missing something obvious ?
> > (I wouldn't think its some buffer issue, since the above routine gets
> > called once via g_idle_add and the label doesn't appear after
> > resizing/iconify). table size is 4x4 in the XML file.
>
>
>  Could it simply be that you forgot to gtk_widget_show() the label ?
yeap. thanks for hinting that out (missed the obvious since Gtk has
beeen XML and callbacks to me up till now ....)
> libglade doesnt do anything sinister that I know of to tables, the fact
> that you are modifying a constructed table may change things, could
> your widget be shown underneath another widget already on the table ?
thanksII for decreasing the mystery level 
> > Second question:
> >
> > Entries to a notebook all use the same layout and different variable
> > space. The layout for the first page is generated, amongst the rest of
> > the GUI, using XML/libglade, the others are to be cloned at runtime
> > (number of notebook pages is only kown at runtime). What's the "good"
> > way to do this ?
> > I realize one way is to use glade_xml_new with root and domain options
> > and attached the tree at the notebook. Right ?
> > Is there a general way to cut/paste a widget subtree to a different node
> > within Gtk ?
>
>
> No there is no safe object copying mechanism in place, nor is there a
> recursive
> one, better to use the "root node" argument like you mentioned to build
> templates
> and just modify them as needed while adding to the interface.
thanks III, I'll guess I know to proceed now,
very helpful,
cheers
Fred