Re: [Java-gnome-developer] Reading Quickly glade files

[Jacek F. <ja...@gm...>]

Hi Andres, nice to see you here :-)

I may be wrong, but I believe quickly is using the new GtkBuilder format
(which now ships as part of GTK+)
http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/unstable/GtkBuilder.html

while Java-GNOME I think still supports only the old Glade format (which
used to be a stand-alone library).

More (hopefully useful) info here:
http://www.micahcarrick.com/05-30-2008/gtk-builder-libglade-faq.html

Anyone correct me if I am leading Andres into the wrong direction.

Cheers,
Jacek

On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Andres Almiray <aal...@gm...> wrote:

> Hello devs!
>
> I'm working on a Gtk plugin for the Griffon framework that relies on
> java-gnome to do its thing (great work you guys!).
> However attempts to read a glade file that was created by using Ubuntu
> Quickly resulted in some manual mangling of the xml before java-gnome was
> happy with it. Thought I should share what I did to get it to run
>
> http://www.jroller.com/aalmiray/entry/griffon_the_quickly_connection
>
> Basically I had to follow these steps:
>
>    1. change <interface> to <glade-interface>
>    2. comment out <requires lib="gtk+" version="2.16"/>
>    3. change all <object> elements to <widget>
>    4. remove type="submenu" from every menu widget
>
> Also had to remove an image widget definition as the image filename was
> translated (erroneously) as '/tmp/background.png' instead of
> 'background.png'. Which brings me to the next point I noticed while working
> with java-gnome: it expect resources to be defined as files that can be read
> from the native side. This hinders the ability to place resources on the
> classpath (inside jars for example) and let the library picke them up.
>
> Would it be possible to have the Java wrappers expose Java friendly
> InputStream methods? Internally they can read a stream and feed the contents
> to a temporal file, then feed the file to the native code; no changes needed
> on the gtk side :-) This is actually a 'hack' I put in place on the
> griffon-gtk plugin but if won't work while reading glade files.
>
> Cheers,
> Andres
>
>
>
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