[Gtk-sharp-list] Help

[George Farris]

Any way to run something like bindtotext?  Or have internationalization?

On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 08:57, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> > I am quite new at this side of the track so please bear with me.
> > I have a winform code that  was written and compiled  fine with C#/SDK.
> > I  am now trying to convert it  to gtk#/mono and having a heck of a
> > time.
> 
> This is very good tutorial/HOWTO material.  I have CCed mono-docs-list
> to see if someone is interested in stepping up and doing a `Winforms
> to Gtk# porting tutorial'.
> 
> >  for example, how do i convert these line of codes to gtk#/mono
> 
> The first thing to keep in mind is that the use of absolute
> positioning on a form is not recommended when using Gtk.    
> 
> The problem arises when a user changes his font, or is using the
> application in another country.  For example the common "Ok" button
> would become "Aceptar" in spanish.  So any absolute positioning is
> considered a bad idea.
> 
> So in Gtk, you use widget containers to lay things out.
> 
> Second, in Gtk you would not put the layout code directly into the
> source, because we consider this tedious.  So you would do this using
> "glade-2".  With Glade-2 you would design your form, and say, save it
> into `sample.glade'.  Then you would load the UI from there (see the
> tutorial, there are examples on how the GUI is loaded, and events and
> widgets connected).
> 
> Your example using Gtk# and Glade would look like this: 
>         using Glade;
>         using System;
>         
>         class Boot {
>         static void Main ()
>         {
>         Application.Init ();
>         Form f = new Form ();
>         Application.Run ();
>         }
>         }
>         
>         class Form {
>         Glade.XML ui;
>         [GladeWidget]
>         Button button1;
>         
>         [GladeWidget]
>         Entry entry1;
>         
>         Form ()
>         {
>         ui = new Glade.XML ("sample.glade", "window1", null);
>         ui.Autoconnect (this);
>         }
>         
>         void on_button_clicked (object o, EventArgs e)
>         {
>         Console.WriteLine ("I got clicked");
>         }
>         }
> 
> In Glade, you would have to layout your widgets, and put a button1,
> and entry1 widgets.  
> 
> See my attached images for details:
> 
> 
> This is the GUI designed for the example above.
> 
> 
> Notice that I have set the widget name to "button1",
> and that the label is set there to "OK".  Also notice
> my huge font, because I cant read
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Select the "Signals" tab in the "Ok" button, 
> and click on the button shown above to add 
> a signal handler.
> 
> 
> 
> Select the signal clicked
> 
> 
> And now click on "Add" to add the signal
> handler.  This is very important.  Do not
> forget, or the binding to your C# function
> will not be there.
> 
> Miguel.
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