Hi, I'm trying to use GtkBuilder in Empathy instead of Glade. My first problem is bug #486420. libempathy-gtk is a library with a set of widgets that any application can embed in is UI. So I would like to have methods like GtkWidget *empathy_foo_new (); This function should return a new object of a class I define myself that inherit from GtkWindow or other classes, the object need to have refcount=1, floating=true and visible=false (like all gtk_foo_new() methods in GTK+). Most widgets inherit from GtkContainer and I define in my glade/ui xml file widgets contained. If I do that naively I can construct the widget using glade (and convert to ui) but that won't be my own defined class. Is there a way to tell GtkBuilder that an object is of type EmpathyFoo and GtkBuilder will magically use g_object_new (EMPATHY_TYPE_FOO, properties) to create that object and will pack childrens in it? I was told that's possible to create my own widgets classes for glade using "catalogues", I didn't tested that yet, is that possible with GtkBuilder too? An other problem I have is using GtkBuilder if the root is not a GtkWindow object, GtkBuilder takes ownership of the widget (using g_object_sink_ref), that means if I create a window I can unref the builder safely but if it's just a GtkHBox (for example) I have to first g_object_ref(hbox); and g_object_force_floating (hbox); and then it should be safe to unref the builder, and my hbox becomes a normal widget I can pack where I want. Is that the normal behaviours? I think libglade don't act like that. And final question; I have one ui file per widget, should I create one GtkBuilder object and add_from_file() all ui files in it? Or should I create one GtkBuilder per widget? And if I want to create 2 instances of one widget I have to create 2 different GtkBuilder objects or is there a way to tell GtkBuilder to create a new instance of a given object? Thanks for answers, Xavier Claessens. _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
