[Glade-users] Apparent bug in glade-3 with copy and paste

[Tristan Van Berkom]

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Gerald Britton <gerald.britton at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Tristan.  What you say makes sense.  I was expecting too much.
> I guess I could work around it by making my new project the same
> format then changing it just before saving it, right?

Lol, you did not expect too much, I came up shorthanded ;-)

but yeah I will make that use-case impossible and show
a dialog explaining why... what you should do is first convert
the project, then copy in objects from the converted project
(or just work with the converted project as is).

Cheers,
        -Tristan

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> On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Tristan Van Berkom
> <tristan.van.berkom at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Guys !
>>
>>   Eeek you got me ! well, I can frankly say up to this moment
>> that I did not anticipate this use case.
>>
>> Im going to call it a bug and the fix at least for now will
>> be to disallow such copy/pastes across projects with different
>> formats.
>>
>> To shed some light: there are 2 aspects which make the format
>> differ, some (most) objects are only loaded/saved differently
>> (which is why this might work for Scott), in many corner cases
>> though, the actual data representing the UI differs (take
>> for example, the internal image of an imagemenuitem vs
>> the builder format's "image" property).
>>
>> For object conversion at copy/paste level we would need
>> to introduce a per-class backend function to handle conversions
>> at the object level, Glade currently only has a conversion
>> routine for each widget catalog and only converts when the
>> whole project is converted.
>>
>> It would be nice having it work the right way, although I
>> dont have the time for that now...
>>
>> Cheers,
>>        -Tristan
>>
>> On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Gerald Britton
>> <gerald.britton at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi -- as part of a project to migrate from libglade to GtkBuilder, I
>>> am using glade-3 (Glade 3.6.3) as a tool.  I'm trying to do the
>>> following:
>>>
>>> 1, startup glade-3 and open the current libglade-format file
>>> 2. select a widget and copy (or cut)
>>> 3. create a new glade file (Ctrl-N) and set it to GtkBuilder 2.12
>>> 4. Paste the widget I copied from the old file
>>>
>>>
>>> WHen I do this,  a widget gets pasted alright, just not the one I
>>> copied!  Is this expected behaviour or a side effect of copying from
>>> libglade format and pasting into GtkBuilder format?
>>>
>>> --
>>> Gerald Britton
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> Gerald Britton
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