[Glade-users] The composition of different Glade files

[Tristan Van Berkom]

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Justin Paston-Cooper
<paston.cooper at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> Could you please tell me how to do this? I haven't been able to figure out
> how to make an interface with a top-level
> other than one in the "Toplevels" section.

Oh sorry I didnt specify that, you can either:
  - Right click on the widget class item in the palette directly
  - With a widget class selected, right click into the inspector

Cheers,
       -Tristan

>
> On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:35:20 +0100, Tristan Van Berkom
> <tristan.van.berkom at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 6:59 AM, Justin Paston-Cooper
>> <paston.cooper at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Could anyone give me advice on how to create separate Glade files which
>>> can be incorporated into each other?
>>> My example is that I want to build a simple client for an IRC-like
>>> protocol where I have a Notebook with tabs
>>> for each channel, and an input and text display in each open channel. I
>>> would like to separately design the outer part
>>> with its Notebook, and the inner part with the input and text display.
>>> How
>>> should I go about this?
>>
>> Pretty simple.
>>
>> Glade will let you define an interface without a toplevel window, so
>> you can define a hierarchy with a toplevel alignment or a toplevel
>> GtkVBox for instance.
>>
>> Then using GtkBuilder, you create your main interface which contains
>> an empty notebook, and use GtkBuilder to build the inner area
>> of the notebook page on the fly for every page.
>>
>> Note you will probably want to use separate files for the main
>> interface and the notebook page as it may be easier to work
>> with GtkBuilder that way.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>        -Tristan
>
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