[Glade-devel] please help: bug: glade2 file conversion to glade3 failed

Tue Nov 24 13:52:25 EST 2009

  - You can introduce stock icons using the GtkIconFactory object
available with GtkBuilder
  - The GnomeDateEdit missing displayable value reflects a missing
translatable string in Glade's backend
    (seems the GTK+ backend handles some gnome types possibly, for
some minor conversions at load time)
  - People generally use GtkTreeView for what they used to use GtkCList for

  - As far as "getting your Glade file to work", As I said, I removed
the <requires> line as I saw it was only
needed for the icon definitions and Glade
    did not crash - for your app to look normal; the "orientation"
property of every GtkOrientable widget
    must be set properly, google might find you a script for this as
its a common problem, or, you might
    write one and tell google about it, or somebody might just fix the
bug in GTK+.


On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Saku Masukita
<sakumasukita at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Tristan Van Berkom
> <tristan.van.berkom at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Yes, generally that just means replacing calls to glade_xml_new()
>> with gtk_builder_add_from_file(), and then glade_xml_get_widget()
>> with gtk_builder_get_object() (i.e. the api is very small).
>>
>> The bulk of your work to use GtkBuilder would be to get rid
>> of the gnome widgets essentially, which is something you
>> would want to do anyway for new code.
>>
>> >
>> > Obviously something needs to be done for me to be able to open the
>> > file with glade-3, but I am not sure exactly what. Any ideas?
>>
>> The warnings are normal (as we actually need people to contribute
>> artwork for those missing icons), the segfault I cant tell by looking into
>> your file, but I was able to do something with it.
>>
>> After looking at the segfault (which I didnt reproduce because I didnt
>> build the gnome catalog here...) I found that you do not use any gnome
>> widgets (good first of all for you), only gnome stock icons.
>>
>> So, after removing the <requires/> line from your Glade file I loaded
>> up with no segfault, but horizontally.
>
> Yes, I was in fact aware of the fact that I had not used any gnome-specific
> code. So I cannot really explain to myself why the glade 2 GUI builder had
> placed the <requires lib="gnome"/> XML element in the XML file but I
> guess glade 2 is history now so it's probably not worth fixing such bug.
>
> Actually the reason might seem to be the fact that I have used some
> gnome icons in the glade 2 XML file despite not using any actual widgets.
> Here are the gnome icons from the glade 2 XML file which I seem to have
> been using (seem like these icons correspond to the stock property):
>
> stock property:
> gnome-stock-text-numbered-list
> gnome-stock-multiple-file
> gnome-stock-mail-new
> gnome-stock-about
> gnome-stock-book-blue
> gnome-stock-book-yellow
> gnome-stock-book-red
> gnome-stock-book-green
>
> So, I'm not sure what the corresponding icons would be in
> the most recent Gtk icons if any at all. But I guess this is
> what I need to fix. Otherwise can I not just simply copy
> these gnome icons to my source code tree and somehow
> import them into glade-3 from there?
>
> Otherwise what should I do? Should I just delete these lines
> to get it to work? Because right now despite deleting the
> <requires lib="gnome"/> tag I still get the segmentation
> fault.
>
> Plus I just don't understand what these complaints about
> GnomeDateEdit which I don't see used within the glade 2
> file are. And the names of the icons from the warnings do
> not appear inside the glade 2 file either. I am confused.
>
> I guess 4034 is just an error code (apart from the segfault).
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> GladeUI-Message: No displayable values for property GtkScaleButton::size
> GladeUI-Message: No displayable values for property GtkImage::icon-size
>
> (glade-3:4034): GladeUI-WARNING **: No icon named 'widget-gtk-sizegroup' was
> found for object class 'GtkSizeGroup'.
>
> (glade-3:4034): GladeUI-WARNING **: No icon named 'widget-gtk-accelgroup'
> was found for object class 'GtkAccelGroup'.
>
> (glade-3:4034): GladeUI-WARNING **: No icon named 'widget-gtk-adjustment'
> was found for object class 'GtkAdjustment'.
>
> (glade-3:4034): GladeUI-WARNING **: No icon named 'widget-gtk-uimanager' was
> found for object class 'GtkUIManager'.
>
> (glade-3:4034): GladeUI-WARNING **: No icon named
> 'widget-gtk-treemodelfilter' was found for object class
> 'GtkTreeModelFilter'.
>
> (glade-3:4034): GladeUI-WARNING **: No icon named 'widget-gtk-treemodelsort'
> was found for object class 'GtkTreeModelSort'.
>
> (glade-3:4034): GladeUI-WARNING **: No icon named 'widget-gtk-treeselection'
> was found for object class 'GtkTreeSelection'.
>
> (glade-3:4034): GladeUI-WARNING **: No icon named 'widget-gtk-statusicon'
> was found for object class 'GtkStatusIcon'.
>
> (glade-3:4034): GladeUI-WARNING **: No icon named 'widget-gtk-textbuffer'
> was found for object class 'GtkTextBuffer'.
>
> (glade-3:4034): GladeUI-WARNING **: No icon named 'widget-gtk-texttag' was
> found for object class 'GtkTextTag'.
> GladeUI-Message: No displayable values for property GtkTextTag::direction
>
> (glade-3:4034): GladeUI-WARNING **: No icon named 'widget-gtk-texttagtable'
> was found for object class 'GtkTextTagTable'.
>
> (glade-3:4034): GladeUI-WARNING **: No icon named 'widget-gtk-filefilter'
> was found for object class 'GtkFileFilter'.
> GladeUI-Message: 1 missing displayable value for
> GnomeDateEdit::dateedit-flags
> GladeUI-Message: No displayable values for property
> GnomeIconList::selection-mode
> Segmentation fault
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>> To fix the horizontalness, I'm not sure if someone attached a script
>> to the bug that does that (since your file is considerably large and
>> a PITA to fix by hand), fixing it by hand means fixing the orientation
>> property of each vbox/vpaned etc in the project.
>
> Yeah, maybe a script is needed, but since I don't really understand what
> the replacements should be I am also not sure about how to write such
> script.
>
>>
>> I got a bunch of errors from CList, seems support for CList somehow
>> got broken in Glade, however your file still seems to load and save ok,
>> Im not sure whats going on with your CList children (ofcourse you will
>> have to drop deprecated GtkCList anyway to move on to GtkBuilder).
>
> So what do I use in place of GtkCList or CList?
>
>>
>> In terms of litterature I think there is not much, its better for you to
>> stick with some tutorials, reference manuals, the source and irc I
>> would think.
>>
>
> Thank, I will have a look at these as well, but what other modifications
> did you make to the glade file to get it to work?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Saku Masukita
>