Hi all,
I havent been writing to this list too too much lately, sorry.
(I also drifted and didn't hack on glade-3 for a couple of months)
Here is a list I threw together of especially noteworthy things that
have been happening and things that still need to happen :)
Things that got done lately:
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- Used Ivan Wongs patch for "special-child-type" to fix packing "type"
properties to
be compatible with glade-2 files (and hanlde notebook tabs, frame labels
and such
in a nice fashion (also made glade-3 save & load "Placeholder" tags like
glade-2).
- Dock widget tree in project window (Andy Somerville)
- Implemented "Properties" context menu item (selects widget and
shows/raises
property editor while leaving the GladeApp in control of the editor raised
state).
- Implemented catalog dependancies (i.e. gnome catalog should depend on gtk+
catalog for "catalog metatdata" inheritence to work properly).
- Now GtkButton, GtkFrame are created with default children (GtkButton is
created
with a default child GtkLabel and GtkFrame creates a default GtkLabel for
its
label_item (both "label" properties are now disabled), TODO: Notebook
should
do the same, for now it just creates placeholders in the tabs.
- Now GladePropertyClass data has control new controls:
- save (whether this property should be saved to the glade file)
- visible (whether we can edit this property in the editor)
- ignore (whether we should actually update the run-time object with
property values)
- Seriously enhanced GladeProperty interface
- Now GladeProperty is GObject, featuring "value-changed" signal and
a slew
of properties (including "sensitive", "enabled" etc...).
- Added va_list/... versions of set/get functions with convinience
complements
in GladeWidget (i.e. glade_widget_property_set (widget, "size",
42); )
- Added glade_widget_property_reset () and gboolean
glade_widget_property_default
- Implemented a general purpose "stock" GParamSpec, with a complimenting
enum GType
generated by gtk_stock_list_ids (). (Editor also updated to make cute
dropdown lists
for stock properties)
- Started implementing some special case code in the plugin, i.e. Made use
of all
these new features to make GtkButton & GtkImage a nicer user experience.
- About a month ago we got "recent files" (and config file handleing)
implemented (Juan Pablo Ugarte)
Things that still seriously need doing:
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- Deal with dialogs and composite widgets smartly
(There might not be any big problems aside from bug 155987, but
the way we handle them and there internal widgets & user added
children, it needs to be seriously thought out).
- GtkFixed needs better support, I was thinking of a module that
handles "button-*-event"s etc for a given widget and then implements
glade_command_create and handles widget deletion etc.
(resizes and drags could be still handled in the plugin backend, i.e.
the plugin could attatch to a signal "drag" or "resize" and set
propeties on the passed child widget such as "x","y",
"width-request"/"height-request")
- i18n'ness still needs to be finished (Richard Hult already got a
great deal done here)
- Write custom menu editor and toolbar editor (and implement plugin
entry point for custom editors); this should be alot easier with
the recent GladeProperty enhancements.
- Add the rest of the Gtk+ widgets and implement good plugin code
for them where needed (including the non GtkWidget classes)
- Add Gnome widget catalog
- Hmmm, please let me know if I missed a dozen or two things here
its looking pretty good.
Cheers,
-Tristan
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