FYI,
The libglade conversion of the gtk-v2 client is in a stable state and is
basically at release-candidate stage with respect to the libglade
functionality. Feel free to try it on for size. I haven't checked on all
the glade configurations I have make up, but there are two different
ones in SVN presently.
Feel free to scope it out and give feedback... I believe it is stable to
the point where it can be merged back onto trunk and branch/1.x.
Consider the following example:
$ ./configure --prefix=${HOME}
$ make
$ make install
The libglade client changes include:
1) autoconf/automake stuff has been done so that `make install` copies the
gtk-v2.glade and gtk-v1.glade file into the package data directory aka
~/share/crossfire-client in this example.
2) crossfire-client-gtk2 sources main.h and main.c consider the the package
data directory to be the default location for .glade files. This directory
is
already the default location for bmaps.client.
3) By default crossfire-client-gtk2 will attempt to load gtk-v2.glade.
4) It is possible to specify and alternate .glade file from the command-line
using
-xml_file. IE. crossfire-client-gtk2 -xml_file
~/share/crossfire-client/gtk-v1.glade
5) If the glade xml file cannot be read, the client will abort immediately and
display
an error message on stderr that identifies the file it wants to load.
6) The new libglade gtk-v2 client has been modified to be able to
programatically
determine the names of all hpaned and vpaned widgets in the .glade file.
This
means that Client | Save Window Position will work for any .glade file as
long as
all of the resizeable hpaned and vpaned widget names are prefixed with
either
hpaned_ or vpaned_. This is the default naming convention used by the Glade
Designer. The client no longer used hard-coded names, and is not
restricted to
a fixed number of resize points.
It is not possible to specify the .glade file from within the Client |
Configure window.
I looked at that code a bit, but have not really digested how it works if you
want to
save string data (path/filename) instead of a simple numeric value. I guess the
sound_server setting is one possible example to follow, but so far I haven't
quite
figured it out.
Features to be considered, but not yet implemented are likely:
1) Choose a .glade file from the Client | Configure window.
2) Possibly create a mechanism so that Client | Save Window Position could work
for multiple .glade files without blowing away the saved settings for other
layouts. Presently, if you run the client with a new layout, the Window
sizing
may be broken because it will use the values set up for the previously used
layout. I guess I'm not sure how big a deal that is since I see people
latching
on to a favorite and playing with it.
3) I wonder if the .glade files should be named to make it obvious they are
designed only for the gtk-v2 client. Perhaps so that the file name always
appears in the form gtk-v2-<stylename>.glade. Ideas entertained.
I do plan to upload a few more .glade layouts, but I haven't given much thought
yet on how to name them or describe their appearance yet.
Kevin R. Bulgrien
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