Re: custom DrawingArea and glade

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 10:47 -0400, Dave Foster wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 9:40 AM, Damon Register
> <damon w register lmco com> wrote:
>         
>         DrawingArea in Glade and somehow tie what I get from
>         get_widget
>         to my instance of the Clock class?
>         
> 
> Your new best friend: get_widget_derived [1].
> 
> Apologies if those docs are out of date but its exactly what you
> need. 

Hopefully this is even clearer:
http://www.gtkmm.org/docs/gtkmm-2.4/docs/tutorial/html/sec-libglademm-using-derived-widgets.html

>  In glade, just put a DrawingArea where you want it.  In code, derive
> from DrawingArea, add the constructor form the link talks about, and
> use get_widget_derived to (essentially) cast the drawingarea in glade
> to your derived drawing area.
> 
> it's extremely powerful.  have fun!
> dave
> 
> [1]
> http://www.gtkmm.org/gnomemm2/reference/html/classGnome_1_1Glade_1_1Xml.html#8e9be00bb530ef24ee4a01cfe95d4a37

> 
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