[Glade-devel] One preview per "topmost" widget

[Marco Diego Aurélio Mesquita]

2010/10/30 Tristan Van Berkom <tristan.van.berkom at gmail.com>:
> 2010/10/30 Marco Diego Aurélio Mesquita <marcodiegomesquita at gmail.com>:
>> This is my plan to implement one preview per "topmost" widget in glade:
>>
>>  - Escalate the widget tree (using gtk_widget_get_parent).
>>  - Check (using gtk_widget_get_name and a list of the names of
>> widgets currently been previewed) if such widget is already been
>> previewed.
>>    - If it is already been previewed, update the whole interface.
>>    - If not, launch a preview.
>
> Perhaps GladePreview object must be an object belonging
> to the GladeWidget itself... when the toplevel gets a parent
> added to it... the preview should then be placed on the parent.
>

Hmmm... This is fundamentally different from what we're doing right
now. What you're proposing would include an api extension to
GladeWidget so that it would have a preview method and take care to
kill the previewer process by the destructor (most of it is treated by
GladeProject now), is that?