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

[Jeff Trefftzs <trefftzs tcsn net>]

On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 13:52, muppet wrote:
> 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?

Exactly.

> > 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.

Ah.  Something like $glx->get_widget('textview1'); perhaps?
I'll give it a try.

> > 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.

And I'll try this, too.

> > 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.

On my system (RH-9) it seems to show DISPLAY=:0.0  so that looks right.

Many thanks for the advice.

-- 

--Jeff

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