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

[Gerald Britton]

Sounds good.  While you're at it, did you notice that just changing
the format doesn't set the flag that the file has changed?  The name
is not prepended with an asterisk and you can quit without a "save
before closing" prompt, IIRC.

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Tristan Van Berkom
<tristan.van.berkom at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>
>>
>> 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
>>
>



-- 
Gerald Britton