Re: many buttons, one handler with gtkbuilder

["Peter F. Patel-Schneider" <pfps verizon net>]

Tristan Van Berkom wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 7:27 AM, Peter F. Patel-Schneider
> <pfps verizon net> wrote:
> [...]
>   
> > As I expected, I guess, but it sure would be nice to be able to easily build
> > objects or handlers that have extra information in them in the form of
> > integers or strings.  Just being able to initialize the user-data property
> > to a pointer to a string or integer using glade/gtkbuilder would be very
> > useful.
> >     
>
> Its on my long long todo list, if you want to try your hand at it, I could
> tell you exactly what has to be done in GtkBuilder and in Glade and
> coach you through getting your patches reviewed correctly etc.
>
> I'm not certain but quite sure Matthias and Johan will not be against
> the idea (i.e. the GTK+ and GtkBuilder maintainers)...
>
> It would not make GNOME 2.26 but could be available in dev releases
> soon after...
>
> Cheers,
>             -Tristan
>
>   
Hmm.  I actually finessed the problem for me by (ab)using tooltip-text 
to hold the extra data.  

Yes, in principle, if I get time available. :-)

I just looked at the glade code and couldn't even figure out where it 
sets up to have tooltips-text as an specifiable property.

Actually a more general solution would be to allow glade/gtkbuilder to 
add properties to widget classes.  I don't know whether this would fly.

peter