Re: [gtk-list] Want an advice: How to save/restore the state ofGTK widgets

[Tim Janik <timj gtk org>]

On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Paul Bunyk wrote:

> 
> Hello, everyone!
> 
> I wonder if there is any recommended/suggested/easy way to save and
> restore the state of some of my widgets (text inputs and checkboxes
> for now) to/from a file. User can specify some path names, etc., in
> my GTK application and I want to give user a chance to save his setup
> in $HOME/.apprc file to be read on application startup. Of course I
> can do it manually, but would not it be nice to automate this task?
> 
> All suggestions are welcome!

uhm, the closest i could think of to save states of existing
widgets is GLE in gnome CVS, though that is more intended to
save/load/create complete windows i.e. widget heirarchies, rather
than single widgets, though saving and restoring state of a given
widget could be achived in the future with a more fine grained API
(since the basic functionality already needs to be in place for
saving whole heirarchies).

> 
> Paul
> 
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