Re: MDI help

[Biswapesh Chattopadhyay <biswapesh_chatterjee tcscal co in>]

Why don't use simply use glade+libgalde and be done with it ? Trust me,
it will save you considerable pain. If you have Anjuta installed, you
can use the Project Wizard to generate a new libglade-2.0 project.

Also, install Devhelp and the GNOME books. You'll get nice
context-sensitive help.

Another thing: Start with a GnomeApp widget - it comes with a lot of
ready-to-use goodness.

Rgds,
Biswa.

On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 08:06, gnome-devel-list-admin gnome org wrote:
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> First off, thanks for your help!!  It's nice to hear from other
> developers that can help put me in the right direction.  To better help
> you with this situation, I'll give you the readers digest of the
> project...
> 
> Let me start with saying that I am a geek.  My girlfriends birthday is
> coming up in March (March 16th) and I wanted to do something for her
> that was truly unique.  For our 6th month aniv. she made me a memory
> book and so I am wanting to do the same, but make the memory book a
> GNOME application.  Each page would be a tab.  And then in the tab, it
> would be a GnomeCanvas to allow for pictures and background color, etc.
> 
> I've got a book on GNOME programming that says MDI is good (although
> it's for GNOME 1.x).  And I don't need to use the MDI widget(s), but I
> do need to be able to simultaneously display a notebook widget (or
> something similar) and a menu (and possibly toolbars).
> 
> Again, I am terribly new to GNOME programming.  I am using this project
> as a way to be unique for her and also to "jump-start" me into GNOME
> development (force me to learn and all).  ANY help you can offer would
> be gold to me!
> 
> I've tried displaying a statusbar at the bottom and menu bar at the top,
> but when I go to display the notebook widget, it never gets displayed?
> Any ideas?
> 
> Anyway, I hope this info helps out for now.  I don't want to make this
> email too long!  Thanks again guys!
> 
> -Robert
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> On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 09:55, John Palmieri wrote:
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> > I don't think he realy means MDI but more like a tabbed interface like
> > gEdit or Galeon.  Reading the HIG is a good idea none the less.  As for
> > the problem are you using Glade or doing this by hand? In Glade you can
> > set a window's default width and height.  If you are doing it by hand
> > there should be an accociated property for this.  Look at the docs for
> > GtkWindow on gtk.org.
> >
> > --
> > J5
> >
> > On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 10:36, Sean Middleditch wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 08:49, Robert Parkhurst wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I am new to GNOME development and am having a hard time with MDI's.
> I
> > > > need to create an application that has multiple tabs.  So far it's
> > > > working so-so, but my window always comes up and is just as big as my
> > > > menu is.  I'm creating a MDI window application.  How can I make my
> > > > window a certain size (say, 600x400) on initial start up?
> > >
> > > So far as I recall, MDI is a big no-no in GNOME, and with good reason -
> > > read the GNOME HIG (something you should always be familiar with
> > > anyways, if you're doing GNOME application development).
> > >
> > > >
> > > > -Robert
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