Re: GTK+ Qt widget stack: how?

[Tim Evans <t evans aranz com>]

Neil Zanella wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am migrating from Qt to GTK+ and from Qt designer to Glade.
> Hence, I would like to know the following as I cannot seem to
> find the answers in the GTK+ documentation:
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------
>
> 1. Qt Designer has the following widet, called a widget stack:
>
>    $ designer
>      -> Window -> View -> Object Explorer
>      -> Containers -> Widget Stack
>
>    which comes from the Qt class QWidgetStack. This basically allows
>    you to superimpose widgets in a container, with only one of them
>    being visible at a time. Then a selection such as the one from a
>    combo box emits a signal and the desisred widget from the widget
>    stack is plaed on the top of the stack with the other ones
>    becoming invisible as this takes place.
>
>    Does GTK offer a similar widget? How about GNOME? I think
>    there should be such a widget somewhere. How do I use it
>    from within glade?

Use a GtkNotebook with the tabs and border hidden like this:

   gtk_notebook_set_show_tabs   (notebook, FALSE);
   gtk_notebook_set_show_border (notebook, FALSE);

Use gtk_notebook_set_current_page in a callback attached to your combo 
box to select the correct page.

> 2. Glade 2.5.0 is telling me that the GTK+ Column Table (ctable)
>    widget is deprecated. However it seems to me that the new API
>    does not show it as being deprecated. What gives?
>
>    What else am I supposed to use if it relly is deprecated. Cause
>    I really do need a widget with columns that looks like a table,
>    and it seems to me that the glade "List or Tree View" isn't quite
>    capable of achieving the same effect (at least, in glade, it doesn't
>    seem to let me specify how many columns I want, which is not good).
>
>    So is ctable deprecated or not, and if it is, what am I supposed
>    to do about it? I'm using GTK 2.4.7

If you mean GtkCList, it's been replaced by GtkTreeView and GtkListStore.

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Tim Evans
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