[Glade-users] The composition of different Glade files

[paston.cooper at googlemail.com (Justin Paston-Cooper)]

Hi,
Could you please tell me how to do this? I haven't been able to figure out  
how to make an interface with a top-level
other than one in the "Toplevels" section.

On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:35:20 +0100, Tristan Van Berkom  
<tristan.van.berkom at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 6:59 AM, Justin Paston-Cooper
> <paston.cooper at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Could anyone give me advice on how to create separate Glade files which
> > can be incorporated into each other?
> > My example is that I want to build a simple client for an IRC-like
> > protocol where I have a Notebook with tabs
> > for each channel, and an input and text display in each open channel. I
> > would like to separately design the outer part
> > with its Notebook, and the inner part with the input and text display.  
> > How
> > should I go about this?
>
> Pretty simple.
>
> Glade will let you define an interface without a toplevel window, so
> you can define a hierarchy with a toplevel alignment or a toplevel
> GtkVBox for instance.
>
> Then using GtkBuilder, you create your main interface which contains
> an empty notebook, and use GtkBuilder to build the inner area
> of the notebook page on the fly for every page.
>
> Note you will probably want to use separate files for the main
> interface and the notebook page as it may be easier to work
> with GtkBuilder that way.
>
> Cheers,
>        -Tristan