Hi. > Can anyone tell me what is G-Inspector ?. G-Inspector is a tool that inspect a GTK application internals at run-time. No special modification to the GTK application is required on inspection. Screenshots: + http://sourceforge.net/project/screenshots.php?group_id=134778 Similar tools: + Qt Object Inspector - http://doc.trolltech.com/solutions/qtobjectinspector/overview.html + editres - http://xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/X11R6.9.0/doc/html/editres.1.html Mentioned by: + http://www.freax.be/blog/index.php/2005/03/25/g-inspector-is-so-cool > I was searching for any documents regarding it but in vain. > It will be great if somebody suggest me the link of its reference manual Due to my laziness, reference manual is not yet released. > (or) how to use it ?. * How to use G-Inspector 1. prepare G-Inspector (a) install binary package + [debian] http://packages.debian.org/unstable/devel/ginspector or (b) build from source i. source tarballs + http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=134778&package_id=149086&release_id=330740 + http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=134780&package_id=149083&release_id=330738 + http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=134780&package_id=149085&release_id=330739 ii. compile % cd /path/to/builddir % bzcat glrr-20050529.tar.bz2 | tar xf - % bzcat glrr-widgets-20050529.tar.bz2 | tar xf - % bzcat ginspector-20050529.tar.bz2 | tar xf - % cd glrr-20050529 % ./configure % make % cd ../glrr-widgets-20050529 % PKG_CONFIG_PATH=../glrr-20050529/pkgconfig ./configure % make % cd ../ginspector-20050529 % PKG_CONFIG_PATH=../glrr-20050529/pkgconfig:../glrr-widgets-20050529/pkgconfig ./configure % make iii. (OPTIONAL) install % cd /path/to/builddir % su # cd glrr-20050529 # make install # cd ../glrr-widgets-20050529 # make install # cd ../ginspector-20050529 # make install 2. run application with G-Inspector % /path/to/g-inspector GTK-APPLICATION [ARGS-FOR-GTK-APPLICATION ...] e.g. % /path/to/g-inspector gimp 3. inspection After invoking the GTK application, extra window that created by G-Inspector will appear. If you want to inspect a widget, i. select menu item - [View]/[Pickup List] ii. select menu item - [View]/[Widget Picker] iii. click "Pick" button on Widget Picker window iv. click target widget v. right click at list item on Pickup List window vi. select popup menu item - [View Widget Detail] If you want to inspect a GType, i. select menu item - [View]/[GType Tree] ii. right click at tree item on GType Tree window iii. select popup menu item - [View GType Detail] Notes: G-Inspecotr is still developing, silently. New version will be released at near future. Regards, -- AOSASA Shigeru _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
