Re: Dynamic Dialog generation

[Bob Wilkinson <bob aldigital co uk>]

On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 12:05:22PM -0500, gtk-perl-list-request gnome org wrote:
> Message: 1
> Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 03:32:12 +0000
> From: Dermot Musgrove <dermot glade perl connectfree co uk>
> To: Bob Wilkinson <bob wibble uklinux net>,
> "gtk-perl-list gnome org" <gtk-perl-list gnome org>
> Subject: Re: Dynamic Dialog generation
>
> Bob Wilkinson wrote:
> >
> [...]
> > Oops, I think that you've misunderstood my example. 
> Sorry.

Probably my fault...

> > I wanted to be able 
> > to enter any (integral) number into the input box, and have the facility 
> > to set any of the checkboxes (in the real example I have 9). Dependent 
> > on the state of the checkboxes, I 'd like to (when set) provide a new 
> > input box for the user to be able to enter data. So if 3 of the 9
> > checkboxes were set, I'd like to put input boxes in sets of 3 on the 
> > next dialog.
> >
> > I can do all of this statically by providing sets of 9 input boxes, but 
> > if I know that they're unnecessary, it saves me a lot of hitting the 
> > tab key, by not displaying them.
> >
> > I would like the number of sets of input boxes to be governed by the 
> > number entered into the first dialog.
> Have you looked at $widget->hide() as a solution. I reckon that if you 
> build a dialog with 9 input boxes with predictable names you can then do
>
>   $window->FORM->{"text$i"}->hide;
>   $i++;
>
> in a loop in the signal handler that constructs or raises the dialog. If
> you are reusing the dialog you may need to call 
>
>   $window->FORM->{"text$i"}->show;
>
> to make them visible again.
>  

Thanks - $widget->hide was the solution I sought. 

Basically, I needed to make my second form a superset of all of those 
permitted, and use the first to mask the unwanted input boxes. I 
typically wanted a fairly sparse form, derived from the second under control 
of the first.

> [...]
> > I have been using Glade and your Perl interface. I think that I would be
> > able to use the Gtk Perl interface to effect what I'd like to do, but I was
> > curious as to how this should be done from within the Glade paradigm.
> I hope that I am nearer this time. Please let me know how you get on - it
> is a great help to me to know what people are really developing.
>
> Regards, Dermot

Thanks very much for your assistance, Dermot. I'll let you know when I'm
finished.

Bob