[Glade-users] The composition of different Glade files

[Tristan Van Berkom]

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Justin Paston-Cooper
<paston.cooper at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the help. When I select a VBox with left click, and then right
> click in the inspector, all that happens
> is the inspector turning blue. Could this be a problem with Glade 3.4.5,
> or am I doing it wrongly?

You need 3.6.x. (for that feature, and for everything GtkBuilder related).

Cheers,
       -Tristan

>
> On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:40:01 +0100, Tristan Van Berkom
> <tristan.van.berkom at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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