[Glade-users] Using GLADE for client/server preferences

[damon at karuna.uklinux.net (Damon Chaplin)]

On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 05:29 +0000, Carl Perry wrote:
> Greetings!
>
>       I'm in the planning stages of developing a large client/server
> application.  With the advent of GTK+ on all the major platforms
> supported, I was thinking of using GLADE as a preference panel
> container.
>
>       The idea is I will have a robust server application which will need
> configuration of plugins (like anti-spam tools).  These applications
> would provide a GLADE XML file to the client over the network.  The
> client would render it and wait for a button event which would send the
> contents of the preference panel back to the server.  My question is: Is
> this possible.
>
>       From what I can see from the GLADE and libglade documentation, you can
> manually connect the signal handlers of a GLADE XML definition to
> application functions.  What I would really like is a way to display the
> entire definition and then get back an similar XML file with all the
> objects in their altered state.  If that is not possible, simply walking
> the widget tree and returning the value of all the items would be
> acceptable - but again I cannot see how to do this.
>
>       Am I missing something extremely obvious, or is this harder than it
> looks?

Walking the widget tree and returning the names of widgets together with
their states or contents should be pretty simple.

You can use standard GTK+ functions to walk the widget tree, and if you
use the "Set widget names" option in Glade, you can easily identify
widgets.

Damon