[Glade-users] how to create a sudoku gui

[Tristan Van Berkom]

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 2:22 AM, Tristan Van Berkom
<tristan.van.berkom at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 1:04 AM, karthik s <suryak at live.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 23:08:35 +0900
>>> Subject: Re: [Glade-users] how to create a sudoku gui
>>> From: tristan.van.berkom at gmail.com
>>> To: suryak at live.com
>>> CC: glade-users at lists.ximian.com
>>
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>> There are few ways you could make such a UI.
>>>
>>> GTK+ menuing system has a grid mode which might be interesting to use,
>>> using a grid-like menu might make it easier to use and more portable to
>>> a handheld (or touchscreen) environment.
>>>
>>> If you want to use an entry and go back and forth from
>>> keyboard/mouse-finger
>>> input... you will have to police the entry content quite a bit, make
>>> sure it only
>>> accepts numeric input and only allow a single character at a time,
>>> probably
>>> by selecting the current character (if any) at all times that the
>>> entry is focused.
>>>
>>> To force the entry size, set the "width-chars" property of GtkEntry to
>>> a reasonable
>>> value like 1 (otherwise you will always require a hard coded minimum width
>>> for
>>> the entry).
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> -Tristan
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 9:01 PM, karthik s <suryak at live.com> wrote:
>>> > I am done with command line interface of sudoku solver. Now, I am onto
>>> > GUI
>>> > building. I am absolutely new to GUI and so to glade. (I use C)
>>> >
>>> > Well, I created a frame and on it dropped a 'table' container of 9-by-9
>>> > size. Now, I am trying to put a 'text entry' control in each container.
>>> > The 'Text Entry's' I have created are very long (horizontally very
>>> > long).
>>> > How do I reduce its size so as to look like a sudoku gui.
>>> >
>>> > As you might have already aware of how exactly a sudoku gui looks like,
>>> > so
>>> > please help me on this. How do I make it?
>>> > Also do know that I am still a student and not a professional who can
>>> > handle
>>> > Linux Kernel.
>>> >
>>> > I hope you will help me
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Thanks
>>> > surya
>>> >
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>>
>> I designed the basic structure of GUI for my sudoku solver. So, here are the
>> following things I am unable to do now
>>
>> 1. I could fixed the maximum length of input to 1 but how should I make it
>> only for int
>
> You have to connect to "key-press-event" signal, make sure you read
> up on how to handle signal callbacks because you need to use the
> right signature.
>
> Grepping the web will help you... search for input/entry validation
>
>>
>> 2. There are 2 buttons at the bottom which I created using "horizontal
>> panes" and button widgets.
>> The problem here is, as soon as I close and reopen the project, those
>> positions of buttons are changing. One is turning down to smaller and other
>> bigger. I had to readjust them every time.. how to fix it?
>
> The paned widget has some object properties which might be useful,
> if you need your application to save where the user previously had
> the paned window positioned, that means you need some level of
> session management.
>
> i.e. when your program quits, or a short time after the paned window
> position changes, you should save it to a file or database (GConf/GSettings ?)
> and load that to setup the position again at startup time.
>
>>
>> 3. How to generate C code for this project? and how to link it to my source
>> file.
>
> You never ever generate C code for a project.
>
> To load your project use the following code:
>
> #include <gtk/gtk.h>
>
> int
> main (int argc, char *argv[])
> {
>   GtkBuilder *builder;
>   GtkWidget *window;
>
>   gtk_init (&argc, &argv);
>
>   builder = gtk_builder_new ();
>   gtk_builder_add_from_file (builder, "/path/to/glade/file.glade", NULL);
>
>   window = gtk_builder_get_object (builder,
> "the-name-you-gave-to-the-toplevel-window");
>
>   /* here you can fetch all the widgets you actually need to use...
> and call g_signal_connect(),
>      alternatively you can use the signals assigned in your glade
> file by calling gtk_builder_connect_signals() */
>
>   gtk_widget_show (window);
>
>   gtk_main ();
>
>   return 0;
> }

Extra note:

I wrote this code off the top of my head, there is a good chance it will not
compile the first time.

I expect you to search gnome.developer.org and use the appropriate GTK+
apis for your needs.

Please inspect the GtkEntry apis and GtkPaned apis yourself and try compiling
it yourself.

Cheers,
         -Tristan

>
> And that will build your interface for you dynamically.
>
> Furthermore, if you dont want to manage where the file is installed,
> you can just convert
> the glade file to a C header file as a string constant and just pass
> that directly to
> gtk_builder_load_from_data() instead of using gtk_builder_load_from_file().
>
> Cheers,
>       -Tristan
>
>>
>>
>> This is how I want my project should work:
>>
>> - The input function has an 9 by 9 array, all entries should be taken into
>> it as soon as I click "submit"
>> - 0 should be taken in place of empty 'text entry'
>> - After submitting, my code gives output which has to be shown there
>> - Input entry numbers should be in colored and shown in bold format.
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
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