[Glade-users] Intro To Glade

Daniel Kasak dkasak at nusconsulting.com.au
Sun Mar 11 18:44:35 EDT 2007


Alan Lake wrote:

> I've tried to use Glade-3, but my customer has provided the tool bar 
> buttons.  I first set up my tool bar using stock buttons, then tried to 
> switch to my custom buttons.  When I use a custom button, whether it is 
> bmp, gif or png, it becomes invisible.  I could not find where the stock 
> buttons are stored to try to make my custom buttons conform as much as 
> possible to them.  I can use the custom buttons in Glade-2, so I'm 
> starting to work with that product.
>   

There is currently a bug in glade-3 that causes it to drop custom images 
from menus and things. I'm using glade-3.0.3, which seems to be the 
latest version I can use without mangling all my projects.

> I'd like to change the color of the tool bar, but am unable to see how 
> to do it.  (I'm trying to make the appearance of my window look as much 
> as possible like his Visual Basic window.)
>   

You probably want to do this with a gtk theme. Changing the colours of 
things is generally frowned upon because it doesn't play well with themes.

> I need to incorporate something like gtkhtml2 into my project.  (My 
> installation of Ruby-Gnome2 failed to install gtkmozembed.)  I tried to 
> install the GTK Widget Factory so that I might make gtkhtml2 into a 
> Glade widget, but it appears to be incomplete.  The "configure" failed 
> at libtool, but I don't know how to make it work.  Perhaps I should ask 
> how to incorporate gtkhtml2 into the code that will be generated by 
> libglade.
>   

Can't help you with this one. Sorry.

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