Tristan Van Berkom wrote: > On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 13:50 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote: >> On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 14:19 +0300, Kalle Vahlman wrote: >>> 2007/6/26, Murray Cumming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>>> libglade's _new() function has a "root" parameter: >>>> http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/libglade/gladexml.html#GLADE-XML-NEW >>>> >>>> This is necessary because libglade otherwise instantiates all the items >>>> in the file. Does GtkBuilder instead only instantiate the objects when >>>> you actually use gtk_builder_get_object()? >>> See bug 447998 for discussion on this: >>> >>> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=447998 >>> >>> but in short: no, it instantiates them as a part of the >>> parsing/building process and it's not going to be easy to do it >>> properly otherwise. >> OK, so we need to have one file per window, which the glade-3 developers >> might not be so happy about. I guess, the gtk-builder-convert script >> should be changed to create lots of individual files. >> >> I am concerned that this makes it impossible to use GtkBuilder to define >> the properties for a single widget, without instantiating a useless >> invisible window object. That's a technique that I use currently. > > I vaguely remember having discussed this issue a little, we found > that yes; many apps do use the "root" argument but that it was not > fundamental to the way gtkbuilder works (i.e. people can simply store > widgets/objects in separate files). I suppose this functionality could > be added to the builder in the future by adding a "rootnode" property > to the builder if its really needed. > > For your particular use case though, you dont need to instantiate > a useless window; there's no need for toplevel ui objects to be > GTK_TYPE_WINDOW().
I think the proper solution to this problem is to extend UI builders to allow you to create interfaces without a toplevel window. -- Johan Dahlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Async Open Source _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list