Rainer, This question has come up a bit on the list. As much as I've read, most people seem to prefer working with the UIManager. I've just finally started using it myself, and already I can tell you that I like it quite a bit better already.
On 1/25/07, Rainer Thaden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am starting to dive into gtkmm and try to develop a prototype app. > I built my main window with glade and read it with libglademm. > > If I do so, I can just define signals for the menu items and connect them to > my handler functions. > What is the advantage of not doing so and using actions and uimanage? > That I can enable and disable them together via one switch? > This is one of the benefits. I'm sure there are more. Personally I think it makes my code quite a bit cleaner and easier to understand. > As far as I understand it, it is not possible to design these actions with > Glade, right? > > I didn't find too many examples for doing menus and menubars with libglademm. > If this is the wrong list, sorry for that. The Menus And Toolbars chapter in th gtkmm book is a good example of the UIManager. http://www.gtkmm.org/docs/gtkmm-2.4/docs/tutorial/html/ch11.html > > -- > Regards, > > Rainer HTH, Paul _______________________________________________ gtkmm-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtkmm-list
