[Glade-users] Partial interfaces - no top level?

[mcs_glade at savigear.com (Matt Savigear)]

Tristan Van Berkom wrote:
> It should make no difference, make sure you have Glade 3.6.x
> and that you are using GtkBuilder.
>
> In Glade, just right click on the palette item to create a toplevel
> non-window object in the project (or alternatively right click in the
> inspector with the palette item selected).

Ah-ha! A right-click option! Rather embarrassingly I hadn't thought of that.

> Note that if your objects have references to objects outside
> the hierarchy such as actions or liststores etc, you will
> need to know which ones to load from the Glade file with
> builder if you are only adding fragments of the Glade file,
> it should be easier for you to keep every fragment in a separate
> Glade file and always build the whole interface.

Ah, great, I'll play with this option too. Plenty of things to tinker
with to get some results. Thanks for your help.

-- 
Cheers,

Matt.

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