[Glade-users] Building menu systems

[Yan Seiner]

Tristan Van Berkom wrote:
> On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Yan Seiner <yan at seiner.com> wrote:
>   
>> This is not strictly a glade question, but I am using glade and I need
>> some ideas on how best to proceed.
>>     
>
> Well Im not reading a question here, Id just have to agree
> with you, if your dataset could be in the 10,000s and over
> then your menus should be built on the fly (i.e. each submenu
> built when the parent menu item is activated).
>   
I guess I was hoping to get some guidance on how to deal with menus that 
big.  For now I'm going to implement this as bash scripts + gtkdialog, 
but that's really slow.


> And you wouldnt really want to use glade for that, unless you
> had some kind of fancy menuitem template you want to be
> able to edit.
>   
Actually the idea is to pull thumbnail maps from yahoo/google for 
geographic features and create arrays of buttons, assuming I can get the 
TOS worked out.

--Yan