Re: splitting an App between Glade files?

[Patrick <patrick spellingbeewinnars org>]

Hi Emmanuele

Thanks for your excellent suggestion. I am still reading through the 
reference manual on this and don't fully understand it but I may have 
hit an issue.

I need to deploy on Windows as well and I believe this means I have to 
stick with 2.24, I don't know if i can build composite widgets thorough 
XML in 2.X, it appears that I cannot.

Just another crazy idea to throw out in the open...

If I found a suitable XML parser, do you think I could write my 
application in various Glade files, each with it's own top level window 
and then call gtk_builder_add_from_string() with XML code parsed from 
beneath the top level?

Thanks again for all your time-Patrick





On 15-03-10 01:36 PM, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
> Hi;
>
> instead of creating a huge GtkBuilder UI definition file with the
> whole of your application, why not break it up into composite widgets,
> each with its own class and its own template file, like this:
> https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/GtkWidget.html#id-1.3.19.2.13.6
>
> Using templates and composite widgets allows you to keep the UI
> definition small, and the business logic constrained into a single
> widget class. It also allows you easily swap out parts of the UI when
> needed.
>
> Ciao,
>   Emmanuele.
>
>
>
> On 10 March 2015 at 16:52, Patrick <patrick spellingbeewinnars org> wrote:
> > Hi Everyone
> >
> > I have tinkered with Glade in the past and I "felt" that this wasn't going
> > to be easier for me. It "seemed" like a single Glade file would grow too
> > cumbersome so I never gave it a real try. So of course this is "felt" and
> > "seemed" not fact.
> >
> > I haven't personally found examples of people using multiple Glade files for
> > one application, is this possible?
> >
> > I can't start adding widgets to a second Glade file without creating a top
> > level window. I do have the option to change the window type to popup, but I
> > don't know how to pack it into the top level window of the first Glade file
> > or if a popup can even be fully contained in another window.
> >
> > Alternatively is there a way to work with multiple sub windows without
> > having them stacked over each other in Glade?
> >
> > I guess my main concern is that I would like the central portion of my GUI
> > to have multiple features and I am concerned that Glade will become
> > confusing. I was thinking that if I hand coded them separately, the code
> > would be easier to manage then the Glade file.
> >
> > Is it also possible to define widgets within a top level window but to
> > ignore that toplevel window and that top level widgets into another widget
> > instead, such as a notebook, contained in another Glade file? I Understand I
> > would have to hand code this part.
> >
> > Also I am using an unpopular language and trying to interface it with C.
> > Does it seem like a good idea to create a Gtk binding that was complete
> > minus what Glade supports? Seems like it would be a lot less work and would
> > avoid redundancy.
> >
> > Thanks for reading-Patrick
> >
> >
> >
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