[Glade-users] Viewing custom widget sub-widgets in Glade tree-view

Tue Oct 5 04:52:30 EDT 2010

Hi and thank you very much for answering so fast!

Your explaination is clear and I now I can clearly see how much I'm not in
this (simple) case.
I'll explain the structure of my custom widget to help you help me.

My custom widget isn't a container. I mean that in glade, or in the code
using it,
there shouldn't be ways to add something to it directly.

Instead, the use will simply change parametters:
My widget inherit from GtkAlignment and contains only a GtkTable. Now the
table is automatically filled with GtkToggleButtons.
I exposed column-width and column-height in parametters of my custom widget
and when you change it, it will automatically destroy and create toggle
buttons in the table to fill it. That's all done in the custom widget.
What I want is to allow the user to edit the buttons (everithing in it, like
normal button edit) without being allowed to touch the structure of the
custom widget other than what I voluntarly exposed in the interface.

Now, if I understood correctly, I'm in the case where I need to
 1. implement get-internal-child
 2. have to get new buttons created in the widget and make glade widgets for
them.

That's what I've done and it almost works perfectly so far. I just had to
add get-children to make the widgets visible in the tree view of glade (I'm
still not sure why).
So the problem I have is that is I add 1 to the column number, the widget
will add buttons automatically and make glade widgets too. However, only the
widget tree view in glade will not update.
It will only update on creation of the widget, or when I load it from a
saved file.

Yesterday I found that get-internal-child is called when I load it from a
saved file, so I was thinking that maybe I have to make a call to a function
or send a signal for the tree-view to get internal children again?

On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 18:20, Tristan Van Berkom <tvb at gnome.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 12:18 AM, Klaim <mjklaim at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > as disscussed there :
> http://www.gtkforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=18030#18030
> > I've managed to make my sub-widgets appear where I wanted, in the
> treeview.
> > However, the treeview content will not be updated when I'll add new
> > seb-widget to my custom widget, or remove some from it.
> > I've been analzing and trying to reproduce some techniques that are used
> in
> > gtk widgets plugin code that we can find here :
> > http://git.gnome.org/browse/glade3/tree/plugins/gtk+/glade-gtk.c
> > I've been trying for several days but couldn't update the tree view.
> > I've implemented a plugin for glade, it provide (wired in the xml file) :
> >     post-create-function
> >     set-property-function
> >     get-internal-child-function
> >     get-children-function
> > I see that the get-internal-child-function is not even called by glade
> (then
> > I don't undersand when it should be called) but at the moment I
> implemented
> > get-children-function I started to see the subwidgets in the glade
> > tree-view.
> > I've been following advices given there
> > : http://www.mail-archive.com/gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org/msg12349.html
> >
> > I think I'm missing something simple as the gtk glade plugin code don't
> seem
> > too complicated but I can't find how it makes the sub-children updated in
> > the treeview.
> > When I load a gui built with glade and saved with modified number of
> > sub-widgets in my custom widget, I get the right count of sub-widgets in
> the
> > tree-view. Only modifying it will not update the tree-view.
> > My custom widget have two properties with widgets counts that will add or
> > remove widgets from the custom widget (in the widget code).
> > So in the plugin I've only added in post-create-function and
> > set-property-functino some way to call
> > glade_widget_adaptor_create_internal() on new digets added to the custom
> > widget.
> > It's the same function that is called in the two functions but it seem to
> > work only with post-create-function.
> > Any suggestion?
> > I'm not sure if that question is clear enough, but tell me if it's not.
>
> I'm a little confused about what exactly is not working for you.
>
> If you have a custom widget that is a GtkContainer, so long as
> it works like an ordinary container you should not need to implement
> anything custom along the lines of get-children or any of that.
> (take the GtkBox implementation for reference in this case; it
> uses a virtual 'size' property to decide how many placeholders
> to expose in the Glade workspace).
>
> Note that get-internal-child is for indirect children of composite
> widgets. Thats what lets a GtkDialog configure properties and
> add children to its internal 'vbox' or 'action-area' (I think thats
> out of context for you, I think you just have a normal container).
>
> What you need to do when implementing a normal container
> is usually add placeholders to it if and when appropriate; then
> you need to implement add-child-function/remove-child-function
> and replace-child-function (replace-child will be called if your
> plugin uses GladePlaceholder ... the Glade core will replace
> the placeholder with a widget from the palette; giving it the
> initial packing properties of the placeholder).
>
> So, generally you should just start with add-child and remove-child
> functions... you should not need to call
> glade_widget_adaptor_create_internal()
> unless you are exposing an internal child of a complex composite
>
> You dont need to implement get-children-function either unless you need
> to add something to the generic child list already returned by your
> container's implementation of GtkContainerClass->forall().
>
> Does that help ?
>
> Please let me know in more detail what is the nature of your container
> so I can better help you, is it a basic container widget that only lays out
> it's children in a custom way ?
>
> Cheers,
>         -Tristan
>
>
> > Thanks for reading
> > Joel Lamotte.
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