Re: radio groups in libglade

[jacob berkman <jacob ximian com>]

On Mon, 2001-11-26 at 21:49, James Henstridge wrote:
> jacob berkman wrote:
> 
> >>>>That code in libglade should probably be removed.  Michael added support 
> >>>>for handling radio item groups in libglade-convert.  It now uses the 
> >>>>"group" property of GtkRadioButtons and GtkRadioMenuItems, which gives 
> >>>>the name of the first button/menu item in the group, which means no 
> >>>>special support is needed in libglade.
> >>>>
> >>>GtkRadioMenuItem has no group property, but i should be able to do a
> >>>custom property for it.
> >>>
> >>It would be more useful to add the property to GtkRadioMenuItem, rather 
> >>than hacking around the lack of the property.  The gtk+ maintainers said 
> >>that the API freeze didn't cover missing properties, so this is the 
> >>correct way to fix the problem (and is much more useful to other users 
> >>of gtk+).
> >>
> >
> >i had asked owen on irc and he said no.
>
> Is there any chance you would reconsider about this Owen?  It would make 
> libglade handle GtkRadioMenuItems a lot better (I have already solved 
> the case of GtkWidget type properties once, and it would be good if that 
> code can be reused here).  It would match up with GtkRadioButton better 
> as well.

btw it is working in my local libglade - just a few lines of code.  i
forgot to mention that owen had said it could possibly go in for gtk
2.2.

jacob
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