[Glade-users] Generating forms without windows

Jeff Gaskill Jeff.Gaskill@usa.alcatel.com
Thu, 01 Mar 2001 11:56:40 -0600


A follow-up to my original.  Does anyone know of a way in glade
to create a form (i.e. GtkBox) without first creating a window?  If
not, is it possible to strip out the window in the XML file?



Jeff Gaskill wrote:
> 
> I am currently working on an application that uses the Gnome
> Application Window.  The window contains a h-pane which will contain
> a GTKTree on the left pain and dynamically allocated forms in the
> right pane.  The desire is to create the appropriate contents of the
> right pane dynamically based on the selection the user made on either
> the toolbar or menu.  I will be using a common container widget for
> all forms to be placed in the right pane.  The goal is to product
> something like a file manager.
> 
> Ok, here's my question.  Is there a way in glade to create forms
> so that they can be dynamically allocated to a specific container.
> In other words, it appears to me that all forms created in glade must
> contain a "window".  The forms I need would not contain windows, only
> a base container widget (eg GtkBox).  Can I create a form in
> Glade starting with the base container widget?  I realize the
> code to display each form in the application window must be
> created outside of Glade but creating the forms would save time.
> 
> Jeff
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Jeff Gaskill                        Phone:  (972) 477-9479
Software Engineering Tools         E-Mail: Jeff.Gaskill@usa.alcatel.com
Alcatel USA, Inc.
1000 Coit Road Plano, Texas 75075
                 
   *** The opinions expressed are not those of Alcatel USA, Inc ***