[Glade-users] ref: Glade interface

[Ben Ford]

GTK, and by extension, Glade, uses a container based concept.  Unlike VB 
and QT Designer, you don't just draw buttons and textboxes on your 
form.  You create containers - vboxes, hboxes, tables, etc. and place 
your widgets in them.  I would suggest that you pick up a beginning GTK 
or GTK/Gnome book to really understand how this is done.

Because of the way the containers work, you can't just move widgets 
around to make room for a new widget.  You need to go the the container 
and increase its size, ie, change the hbox's properties from size = 3 to 
size = 4.  Then if your widgets are in the wrong place afterwards, you 
can cut+paste from one cell to another and add the new widget to the 
empty cell.

ps, be careful when reducing the size of a container because if you go 
too far, you will have lost widgets and there is no undo feature!

-b


Wang, Paul wrote:

> Hi, everyone,
> 
> I am a starter of GLADE.
> What I want to ask is how to add new widgets on the existing interface.
> I am not familiar with the GLADE's way of design interface. Now, I can only
> redesign the whole interface when new widgets are added.
> 
> Thanks in advance for your help.
> 
> Paul Wang.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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