Re: gtk2-perl, glade-2, & nautilus

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 15:43, Jeff Trefftzs wrote:
> I am trying to build an interactive nautilus script, based on gtk2-perl
> and the glade-2 development package.

is this the kind of script you call from the File->Scripts menu?



> What is the
> beat way (using glade-2) to initially populate a text entry?  I would
> like to have it display a list of selected files when the app first
> comes up (files selected in nautilus).

if you're using Gtk2::GladeXML (and i assume you are), you can fetch the
textboxen by name from the gladexml object and call $entry->set_text
($new_text) on them before showing everything.

you just say $gladexml->get_widget ($name), where $name is the name you
gave the widget in the widget properties dialog in glade.


> I have tried realize, but that never seems to get
> called -- is there some way to forcibly realize the text box before the
> whole window is shown?

it would happen much like the method i described above... you ask for
the widget by name and then call realize on it.  i think that's not a
great way to go, though.  show would be a better signal.


> On a related note, can anyone on this list tell me how to get a nautilus
> script to actually show the GUI?  Or is this something that I really
> should ask on a nautilus list?

i'm just making a wild guess, but does nautilus include DISPLAY in its
children's environments?  without that, both Gtk2->init and
Gtk2->init_check would fail because they can't get to the X server.

hrm.  i just tried it out, and DISPLAY is set to :0, but some bizarre
messages show up in ~/.xsession-errors.


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