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

[Neil Zanella]

On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 16:07:50 -0500, Tristan Van Berkom
<tristan.van.berkom@gmail.com> wrote:

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

SUGGESTION 1:

> gpointer glade_xml_get_custom_property(const gchar *key);
> 
> into libglade (highly unlikely IMO) ?

Yes, this is what I am suggesting.

> 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:

SUGGESTION 2:

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

Well, if I am retrieving a GtkToggleButton, it's not going to have the
property I want
to add to it with this way, unless I subclass. Hmm... almost makes me
think that glade
should allow me to create a subclass of, for instance,
GtkToggleButton, just to allow me
to add a few properties and nothing else, all from withing glade and
no extra source code.
! :-)
That way, I can easily achieve the effect suggested in SUGGESTION 1.

> or are you proposing something entirely different ?

Yes, now I wish to propose an extension to SUGGESTION 2 to accomodate
SUGGESTION 1. Allow creating subclasses from within glade for the sake
of adding a few properties.

> [...]
> > 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 ?).

OK, good to know though. Maybe I'll have some time for an eclipse plugin.
Who knows (since I really would like to code an eclipse plugin anyways at
this stage, ASAP. Can I code a small one which supports just whatever
functionality is there right now? What kind of IDE API do we have so far?)

Regards, and thanks,

Neil