[Glade-users] Glade-3 and derived widgets

[tvb at gnome.org (Tristan Van Berkom)]

Magnus Danielson wrote:
[...]
> > (I seriously need to update glade3/widgets/adding-widgets.txt which
> > "should" cover all of this)
>
> Please do. It seems that glade-3 is mature enought for me to bother about it
> compared to glade-2, so I will be reading things and ask questions to make
> things tick. I know that I need to add things which is not standard Gtk widgets
> and I want to be able to use Glade as an interface builder for those objects.

Ok,
    I promise that I'll write up "adding-widgets.txt" properly
this week. (there, now I dont have a choice ;-D )

> I was however forced to checkout the CVS stuff to see it. The latest snap-shot
> is as much latest as it maybe should be. 3 months of fine developments later...

Ah well sorry about that; I'm planning on makeing a release as soon
as Juan's work on the menubar-editor stablizes (and we're very very
close to that so it should be soon).

> > > I assume that I somehow need to build a library hold the functionality of my
> > > new widgets.
> >
> > This library typicly will only provide support for non-standard object
> > behaviour, like if you have objects that parent other object which
> > are not GtkWidget or GtkContainer; or if you have parameters to implement
> > that are not implemented via GParamSpec/g_object_install_property.
>
> But any derived widgets needs to be put away in a library anyway, so that
> glade-3 can display them, right?
>
> I know I will add new events for instance.

Ah well, it can be done like that too; actually its probably
a good idea, but you can also build a support module that
only links to the library actually contains the said widgets.

IOW, you dont /have/ to distribute the glade plugin support with
the app that needs your custom derived widgets (but glade-3 /does/
need to at least /see/ the actual objects).

[...]
> Anyway, my resulting conclusion is that libglade and glade-3 is certainly
> giving me the oppertunity to do what I wished to do and it is all there plus
> minus some teething. There is still some questions regarding the real hows on
> the nitty gritty (documentation should solve this), but it should be capable of
> doing it.

Hmmm,
      I should also get API docs generated; since glade-3 provides
an API not only for plugin writers but also for IDE writers theres
been alot documentation written into function headers; worth checking
out...

Cheers,
                         -Tristan