Re: Gtk::Menu with libglademm

[Andreas Volz <lists brachttal net>]

Am Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:26:35 +0100 schrieb Krzesimir Nowak:

> On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 21:56 +0100, Andreas Volz wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I've created a Gtk::Menu (GTKMenu) with Glade. In my project I try
> > to load it with libglademm:
> > 
> > Gtk::Menu *mUmlEditMenu;
> > mXMLGlade->get_widget ("umlEditMenu", mUmlEditMenu);
> > 
> > The result is:
> > 
> > (state:7484): libglademm-CRITICAL **: widget `umlEditMenu' not
> > found in glade file
> > `/home/andreas/src/svn/state/trunk/src/state.glade'
> > 
> > ** (state:7484): CRITICAL **: Gnome::Glade::Xml::get_widget():
> > dynamic_cast<> failed.
> > 
> > 
> > And yes the object exist. Look here in the state.glade:
> > 
> >   <widget class="GtkMenu" id="umlEditMenu">
> >     <property name="visible">True</property>
> >     <child>
> >       <widget class="GtkImageMenuItem" id="umlEditDel">
> >         <property name="visible">True</property>
> >         <property name="label"
> > translatable="yes">gtk-delete</property> <property
> > name="use_underline">True</property> <property
> > name="use_stock">True</property> </widget>
> >     </child>
> >   </widget>
> > 
> > Has anyone an idea why it's not working?
> > 
> > My last option would be to construct the Gtk::Menu without
> > glade. :-(
> > 
> 
> I don't exactly know what are you doing or using, but there is
> onersion possibilty - you are using Glade to create GUI and save a
> result in GtkBuilder .xml format (which is now a default), which is probably
> incompatible with libglade .xml format and now you are trying to load
> GtkBuilder using libglade. See one of two solutions:
> 1. Continue using libglade, but edit your glade .xml file in Glade and
> try to save it in Glade format.
> 2. Switch from libglade to GtkBuilder - libglade is deprecated anyway.
> GtkBuilder is wrapped in gtkmm.

I'm still using Glade 3.4.5 and libgtkmm-2.4. I've seen no hint if I
should use GtkBuilder or libglade with this vesion.

regards
	Andreas