Re: Glade, libglade and Gtk::ComboBox

[Ed Leaver <eleaver sterlingseismic com>]

On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 04:27, Murray Cumming wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 14:37 -0700, Ed Leaver wrote:
> > On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 09:02, Nathan Hüsken wrote: 
> > > Hello together,
> > > 
> > > I am designing my GUI with glade, loading it with libglade.
> > > Now, I want a Gtk::ComboBox (and not Gtk::ComboBoxEntry beacuse I do 
> > > not want it to be editeable). Unfortanly, I can not find it, I can only 
> > > find Gtk::Combo.
> > > Gtk::Combo I can not find in the Documentation, don't know hot to use 
> > > it ... how do I get my ComboBox?
> > > Thanks!
> > > Nathan
> > Hmmm. I'm beginning to think there may be reason(s) Murray has certain
> > reservations about Glade.
>
> I have no reservations about Glade. Glade is wonderful. But code
> generation with Glade (or any code generation) is silly, though (to be
> fair) glademm is not quite as bad as the generated C code.
Although I personally have found glademm's code generation to be very convenient, since joining this list I have discovered that view to be less than universally shared. Perhaps there is a reason, and perhaps I've still one or two things left to learn. Psi. Later. Next Project...

> >  What I think is happening is that Gtk::Combo is a widget from
> > gtkmm-2.2 that has been deprecated in gtkmm-2.4 and replaced with
> > Gtk::ComboBox. Except that Glade hasn't gotten around to it yet.
>
> I think someone is just using an old version of Glade.
>
> [snip]
I think you are right -- at least that is what John Spray has explained. I recently moved from Glade-2.0 to Glade-2.6 (CentOS-4.2) and it still generates the old gtkmm-2.2 code. But in this case that is what I want, at least for the present, because I reference a lot of those old gtkmm-2.2isms (e.g. Combo rather than ComboBox) in my own code, and as it works, I don't want to update it just now. 

In the future I will, either in a refactor of this project, or the next one. One question I will address then (unless you or someone else can answer it now) is whether Glade-2.6 is generating the old gtkmm-2.2 widgets because (a) it just doesn't know about gtkmm-2.4, or (b) it does know about gtkmm-2.4 but has somehow detected the gtkmm-2.2 usage in my extant XYZ_glade.hh headers and is benevolent enough not to change them. Which is something less than a really critical question because by the time I get to where it makes any real difference, I'll probably be on CentOS-4.3 and whatever newer (2.10? 2.12?) version of Glade they include there. 

Thanks for your reply!

Ed