[Glade-users] custom properties stored in glade xml file

[Tristan Van Berkom]

On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 12:56:30 -0700, Neil Zanella <nzanella@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I suggested this before, but it has some problems. (you can't set pointers to
> > data via your method, only strings and integers (but not enumerations from
> > within the code either)
> >
> > I use a method that has a config file in .ini file format ([section] key=value)
> >  after the glade tab is loaded a recursive funcion is called "bind_data" that
> > rccurses down through the widget tree and looks for keys/values to load from
> > the conf file and loads them.  It's not very pretty, but it works extremely
> > well for my application.
> 
> Yeah,so we can have another XML file sitting around with other
> configuration data.
> But that is precisely what I don't want. The whole point is, the
> developer shouldn't
> have to key in widget names in the source code when it could be avoided by
> storing custom properties in the glade file via the glade gui builder.

I'm not sure I understand what you are suggesting, you want to introduce
a function like:

gpointer glade_xml_get_custom_property(const gchar *key);

into libglade (highly unlikely IMO) ?

or you want to define custom properties (as described in the glade-3 xml
catalog) that are editable from the property editor and can later be retrieved
like so:

GtkWidget *widget = glade_xml_get_widget (xml, "mywidget");
gpointer      custom_prop = g_object_get_data (G_OBJECT (widget), "myprop");

or are you proposing something entirely different ?

[...]
> Also, is glade pluggable into eclipse? For instance, can I write yet
> another plugin, so that,
> when I click on an XML file line, property editor comes up with the
> widget of interest
> where the cursor is located? Just wondering. Could be handy.

glade-3 was designed to be be pluggable to an IDE, we're definitly
not there yet though (maybe sometime next year ?).

Cheers,
                                         -Tristan