Re: [Vala] making a running a program as a child inside my program's widget.

[Arkadi Viner <arkashkin gmail com>]

Thanks a lot.

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Arkadi Viner <arkashkin gmail com> wrote:

> Thanks a lot.
>
> 2010/3/5 Jan Hudec <bulb ucw cz>
>
> Hello,
> > On Fri, March 5, 2010 07:18, Arkadi Viner wrote:
> > > for my class assignment I what to extend ValaIDE so when I click on *.UI
> > > file it would be opened in Glade,
> > > but I want glade to be executed inside a new tab (so it will look as
> > part
> > > of
> > > the ValaIDE interface...) .
> > >
> > > Could some body explain to me how such thing could be done?
> >
> > Gtk has the Gtk.Socket and Gtk.Plug widgets for this purpose. You create
> > a Gtk.Socket and the process you want to embed creates a Gtk.Plug. You
> > give
> > one of the objects the ID of the other and the plug will be inserted into
> > the socket.
> >
> > It is possible to tell the Socket to swallow a normal top-level window,
> > too,
> > but it will not work too smoothly, so you'd really want to make glade
> > create
> > a plug instead of top-level window. It might already support it if anjuta
> > already does similar thing (I don't know whether it does).
> >
> > Note, that Qt has compatible pair of widgets, so you can embed Qt
> > applications in the same way. However while Gtk supports Socket and Plug
> > also on Windows, Qt only supports them on X11.
> >
> > --
> >                                        - Jan Hudec <bulb ucw cz>