[Glade-devel] Scalable GtkImage for an HMI builder.
Juan Carlos Orozco
jorozco@ace-lab.com
19 Feb 2004 12:23:25 -0600
On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 04:23, Damon Chaplin wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 02:04, Juan Carlos Orozco wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I implemented a HMI (Human Machine Interface) for the MatPLC project
...
> > So we would prefer to use GtkImage if only we could scale the images and
> > see a feedback of it.
>
> GtkImage doesn't support scaling the image, so we can't really support
> it in Glade.
>
> I think you'll have to use a custom widget to do this. (You could use
> some of the old GnomePixmap code.)
For this we need to learn how to get the width and height on gtk2.
Before we used gtk_widget_get ... but this function is not on the new
gtk2.
>
>
> > BTW, I am also interested in custom widgets with visual feedback, this
> > is that one can see the custom widget in the design window in its real
> > form. I am thinking something similar to the way a graphical java bean
> > is represented in a IDE tool. Is something like this planned in the new
> > Glade3 development? Bonobo components perhaps? I know there is a custom
> > widget in Glade2 but it gets drawed as a plain square. I am pushing my
> > luck here, but it would be great if this custom widgets could be placed
> > in a palette.
>
> It is planned in Glade3. Bonobo components are partially supported in
> Glade2, though I'm not sure how well they work.
>
I am interested to test Glade3 from cvs to see how it is evolving. Where
can I get this code? I found glade and glade2 folders on the gnome cvs
but no glade3? Is the support for Bonobo already being tested or it is
not included yet?
Thankyou.
Regards,
Juan Carlos Orozco
Director
ACElab Industrial Automation
http://www.ace-lab.com