Comments on: Converting to GtkBuilder

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:25:43 +0000

This is the first I’ve heard of GtkBuilder. Eek. Better take a look at my glade apps.

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By: Tristan

Tristan — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 06:49:41 +0000

Richard,
To get your widget loaded it does not need to
explicitly implement GtkBuildable, it only needs to
have its type specified in the Glade file (if it has
custom constructs or needs to do custom stuff
at load time, then implement buildable).

Please read the docs I wrote at glade.gnome.org/docs
about integrating your widgets into Glade, and feel
free to send me emails on the subject…

By: rvl

rvl — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 04:30:51 +0000

Sorry… the XML got mangled, here it is again:

True

…

By: rvl

rvl — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 04:27:59 +0000

I had some success doing this 2 weeks ago.

First I made my widget class implement GtkBuildable. This wasn’t much much work because GtkContainer already implemented it, I just had to alter add_child() slightly.

Then I added construction properties to my widget class so that these could be set from the XML.

Then I put this into my builder XML:

True

I was also looking at implementing the custom_tag_start, etc. methods for setting custom widget data, but didn’t get far.

I also set up my main window as a subclass on GtkWindow. This could be constructed directly from gtkbuilder XML, which was pretty cool, e.g.

…

It all seemed fairly straightforward, even if the docs were a little short of practical information. I hope I understood your question.

By: Johan Dahlin

Johan Dahlin — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 02:35:41 +0000

I wrote a little hack a while ago to load custom like constructs directly:
http://www.gnome.org/~johan/gtkbuildercustom.c

Haven’t really been tested with what glade3 is generating, but it should in general work.

By: Jaap

Jaap — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 22:28:25 +0000

In cheese what we did is just leave an empty frame and add the custom control in the code to that frame.

See around line 1660 in
http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/cheese/trunk/src/cheese-window.c?revision=1210&view=markup

By: aklapper

aklapper — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 09:46:04 +0000

If you find out, sharing this by adding it to e.g.
http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/stable/gtk-migrating-GtkBuilder.html would be welcome.

By: Stephen Gentle

Stephen Gentle — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 05:41:46 +0000

“Read somewhere (don’t know where) that GtkBuilder is (going to be) obsolete … by glade.”

Other way around, mate – Libglade was depreciated, and GtkBuilder (which is part of GTK) is replacing it.

By: Jaroslav Smid

Jaroslav Smid — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 02:45:41 +0000

Read somewhere (don’t know where) that GtkBuilder is (going to be) obsolete … by glade.