Re: Subclassing Gtk::Dialog to create custom Dialog.

[Chuckles <chuckleberryfinn gmail com>]

This is a libglademm issue and is addressed in the derived.cc example
in the source tree.

Sorry about the post.

Cathal

On 7/30/05, Chuckles <chuckleberryfinn gmail com> wrote:
> Hello,
>     Please don't dismiss this out of hand as it is not a pure
> libglademm query. I am developing an application using libglademm
> (easy now) and gtkmm. I have designed a number of custom dialogs but
> am having trouble implementing them in code correctly. I am
> subclassing the Gtk::Dialog class so all signal handlers are in the
> one class, as the dialog is complicated and has a number of options. 
> I retrieved the custom dialog's VBox from the XML file but am unsure
> how to add it to the base dialog, as it already contains a VBox of its
> own (retrieved by calling get_vbox in the subclass). I don't think
> packing the original dialog's VBox with my own VBox is the right way
> to go but can't think of an alternative option (apart from retrieving
> each individual wiget from the custom VBox and adding them to the base
> dialog's vbox one at a time). Is there an alternative, can I simply
> replace the base class's VBox??
> 
> Sorry about the libglademm content of the query.
> 
> Cathal
>