Hi,
I have one doubt regarding libglade. How is it
creating the widgets from glade file. It seems like
the widgets are created during creation of GladeXML
object.
gxml = glade.XML('pathtogladefile')
I am searching for a way to _apply_ glade file to
existing widget (which is already created).
I will make the above point clearer. Look at the
following pygtk example, which doesn't use libglade.
class MyWindow(gtk.Window):
def __init__(self):
super(MyWindow, self).__init__()
# any other stuffs like adding widgets
win = MyWindow()
win.show()
The main advantage of this style is `win` is actually
_is_ a widget (a gtk.Window). So I call win.show()
instead of doing tricks like win.widget.show(). But
is it possible to achieve this advantage, when using
glade file for generating the UI. NO! I tried the
following.
class MyWindow2(gtk.Window):
def __init__(self):
super(MyWindow, self).__init__()
self.gladexml = glade.XML('my.glade')
wind = self.gladexml.get_widget('main_window')
Here there is a confusion. Actually there are _two_
windows in existense. One is `self` and other is
`wind`. To avoid this I should _not_ inherit from
gtk.Window. But this means the advantages of previous
example are lost.
I think the solution to this problem is libglade
should have a function that takes already created
widget (window?) as id and sets the properties on that
widget, then adding the children that widget. That
widget is commonly a gtk.Window. If libglade has such
a function them the above example could be written as
..
class MyWindowGreat(gtk.Window):
def __init__(self):
super(MyWindow, self).__init__()
self.gladexml = glade.XML('my.glade',
existing=self)
wind = self.gladexml.get_widget('main_window')
print wind is self # This is prints `True`
The _definition_ of glade.XML.__init__ looks something
like
(In C)
GladeXML *
glade_xml_new(... , GtkWidget *existing, ...)
{
....
if (existing == NULL){
existing = gtk_window_new(...)
}
...
}
/* just a thought */
Hopes that clears everything.
Thanks.
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Sridhar R
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