[Glade-users] Apparent bug in glade-3 with copy and paste

[tristan.van.berkom at gmail.com (Tristan Van Berkom)]

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Gerald Britton <gerald.britton at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Tristan. ?What you say makes sense. ?I was expecting too much.
> I guess I could work around it by making my new project the same
> format then changing it just before saving it, right?

Lol, you did not expect too much, I came up shorthanded ;-)

but yeah I will make that use-case impossible and show
a dialog explaining why... what you should do is first convert
the project, then copy in objects from the converted project
(or just work with the converted project as is).

Cheers,
        -Tristan

> On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Tristan Van Berkom
> <tristan.van.berkom at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Guys !
> >
> > ? Eeek you got me ! well, I can frankly say up to this moment
> > that I did not anticipate this use case.
> >
> > Im going to call it a bug and the fix at least for now will
> > be to disallow such copy/pastes across projects with different
> > formats.
> >
> > To shed some light: there are 2 aspects which make the format
> > differ, some (most) objects are only loaded/saved differently
> > (which is why this might work for Scott), in many corner cases
> > though, the actual data representing the UI differs (take
> > for example, the internal image of an imagemenuitem vs
> > the builder format's "image" property).
> >
> > For object conversion at copy/paste level we would need
> > to introduce a per-class backend function to handle conversions
> > at the object level, Glade currently only has a conversion
> > routine for each widget catalog and only converts when the
> > whole project is converted.
> >
> > It would be nice having it work the right way, although I
> > dont have the time for that now...
> >
> > Cheers,
> > ? ? ? ?-Tristan
> >
> > On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Gerald Britton
> > <gerald.britton at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi -- as part of a project to migrate from libglade to GtkBuilder, I
> > > am using glade-3 (Glade 3.6.3) as a tool. ?I'm trying to do the
> > > following:
> > >
> > > 1, startup glade-3 and open the current libglade-format file
> > > 2. select a widget and copy (or cut)
> > > 3. create a new glade file (Ctrl-N) and set it to GtkBuilder 2.12
> > > 4. Paste the widget I copied from the old file
> > >
> > >
> > > WHen I do this, ?a widget gets pasted alright, just not the one I
> > > copied! ?Is this expected behaviour or a side effect of copying from
> > > libglade format and pasting into GtkBuilder format?
> > >
> > > --
> > > Gerald Britton
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>
> --
> Gerald Britton