Re: GtkApplication with different ApplicationWindows

[zahlenmeer gmx de]

This is exactly what I thought of, but I also want to allow to run my
program without the main window (like ./prog --task which only opens a
task window). So I would have to run a GtkApplication without any
GtkApplicationWindow. As the applications life cycle is tied to its
ApplicationWindows this approach just seems wrong.

On 08/13/16 14:14, Victor Aurélio Santos wrote:
> GtkApplicationWindow, loads a menubar  from resources automatically if
> they exists.
> So, You can have main window as GtkApplicationWindow and have tasks as
> GtkWindow.
>
> For GtkWindow you'll add a GtkMenuBar to it as any widget.
>
> I'm not a Gtk+ expert, but this is how I would do.
>
> 2016-08-13 8:22 GMT-03:00  <zahlenmeer gmx de>:
> > Hi everyone,
> > I am working on a project where I am struggling to decide which
> > classes/objects I should use. I use gtk3 but it's still a classical
> > application, so no fancy appmenu, CSD and not primarily designed for the
> > Gnome DE.
> >
> > The program works as follows:
> > - A unique main window, with a main menu bar
> > - Multiple task windows, all with a task menu bar
> > - The program can be called with ./prog --task to only open the task
> > window, not the main window
> >
> > The first thing one would find in the documentation is GtkApplication
> > and GtkApplicationWindow, but those have some limitations I currently
> > don't know how to deal with:
> > - Different menubars for different windows (main window vs. task window)
> >
> > So the idea would be to use a normal GtkWindow for the task windows, but
> > in this case I have:
> > - Application life-cycle without a GtkApplicationWindow?
> >
> > So for me the most promising solution would be to skip GtkApplication
> > and GtkApplicationWindow at all, using plain GtkWindows and writing my
> > custom application class. Of course this means extra work to get all the
> > nice benefits GtkApplication offers out of the box.
> >
> > Do you have any ideas how I could design my application accordingly?
> >
> > Kind regards
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