[Glade-users] (Lame title ahead) A few random problems / questions...

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

> Hello Glade people!

Hi

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> -The GUI I am testing this with has a GTKAboutDialog. The dialog displays
> fine, with an image, license data and authors.
> However, the website label (displayed as a button in the interface designer)
> becomes a mere label with the URL of my web site. (It is not clicky). Why
> would this be?

Not sure, are you running your app in the same environment as you
ran glade ? widgets can react differently when 
   a.) the underlying lib is of a different version
   b.) libgnomeui is initialized
   c.) some resources are discovered (maybe the link is only clickable
       with a known web browser running ?)

> Also, and perhaps more importantly, I can't figure out how to assign a
> signal handler for the dialog's Close button! Clicking it does nothing
> normally. I have tried adding a handler to the "close" signal (in GTKDialog)
> for the About window, but it is not triggered.

usually a dialog is "run" and "close" is just one of the possible
responses of the dialog.

> -Those configurable menu accelerators are an awesome feature. Do they
> require libgnome to work?
>
> -Where can I find out what all these signals mean? For example, "realize"
> and "unrealize" baffle me.

use DevHelp or browse the online docs here http://www.gtk.org/api/

signals that are internal to the widget implementation details
(such as "realize") usually have less of a chance of being well
documented, but normally signals that are of significance to the
programmer are documented.

> -I find myself overriding all of my programs' windows' delete signal
> handlers and adding gtk_true to them, instead having the windows hide /
> appear when needed rather than be generated on the spot. Is this normal? Can
> I speed this along and have the signals added by default rather than do it
> manually every time?

add gtk_widget_hide() as the callback for the delete signal ?

> -In the Glade Interface Designer, where I set up signal handlers, there is a
> check box that says "After." What does that option do?

it adds G_CONNECT_AFTER to the connect flags when connecting, see
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gobject/gobject-Signals.html .

Cheers,
                 -Tristan