[MonoDevelop] more gui.stetic confusion

[Vasili I. Galchin]

Thanks Llius.

Vasili

On 4/15/10, Lluis Sanchez Gual <slluis.devel at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Add-ins which want to provide a custom options panel in the project
> options dialog have to implement a subclass of
> MultiConfigItemOptionsPanel and register it in the ItemOptionPanels
> extension point. The c# add-in does it like this:
>
> <Extension path =
> "/MonoDevelop/ProjectModel/Gui/ItemOptionPanels/Build/Compiler">
> 	<Condition id="ActiveLanguage" value="C#">
> 		<Panel id = "CSharpCodeGenerationPanel"
> 		             _label = "Compiler"
> 		             class = "MonoDevelop.CSharp.Project.CodeGenerationPanel"/>
> 	</Condition>
> </Extension>
>
> The 'path' attribute specifies that the panel must be added to the
> Build/Compiler section. The Condition element ensures that the panel
> will be shown only for C# projects. The CodeGenerationPanel class
> referenced above is the one subclassing MultiConfigItemOptionsPanel.
>
> This class has a method to be override: CreatePanelWidget. This method
> must return the actual widget to be shown in the dialog. You also have
> to override LoadConfigData (called when data has to be loaded into the
> widget) and ApplyChanges (called when data has to be stored).
>
> The easiest way to implement the panel to be returned by
> CreatePanelWidget is by using the gtk# designer. You can use the Add ->
> New Widget command to create a new widget class and use the toolbox and
> property pad to visually design it. Then in CreatePanelWidget you just
> have to return an instance of that class.
>
> Notice that you don't have to use the gtk# designer to create the widget
> class. You could do it by hand (that is, compose the whole panel by
> creating each widget manually). But the designer makes constructing the
> panel much easier.
>
> The gtk# designer stores the widget design in gui.stetic. In general,
> you'll never have to deal directly with that file. This file contains an
> xml definition of each window and widget created with the designer. Each
> of those definitions has a name, which is the name of the class bound to
> it (for example, MonoDevelop.CSharp.Project.CodeGenerationPanel).
>
> Lluis.
>
>
> El dc 14 de 04 de 2010 a les 15:42 -0500, en/na Vasili I. Galchin va
> escriure:
>> Hello,
>>
>>     I realize I have to use the built-in Stetic GUI Designer
>> functionality. However, I still don't understand which MonoDevelop
>> panel corresponds to a particular language's (say C$#) gui.stetic.
>> E.g. in C#'s generated code:
>>
>>         private Gtk.VBox container;
>>
>>         private Gtk.Label Indentation;
>>
>>         private Gtk.HBox hboxIndentation;
>>
>>         private Gtk.Label indentationSpacer;
>>
>>         private Gtk.VBox vboxIndentation;
>>
>>         private Gtk.CheckButton indentCaseLabels;
>>
>>         private Gtk.Label LabelIndentation;
>>
>>         private Gtk.HBox hboxLabelIndentation;
>>
>>         private Gtk.Label labelIndentationSpacer;
>>
>> These state variables seem to allude to GUI stuff on a panel. Which
>> panel??
>>
>> Vasili
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