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103 lines
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<!DOCTYPE chapter PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN"
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"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" [
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]>
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<chapter id="gtk-migrating-GtkBuilder">
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<title>Migrating from libglade to GtkBuilder</title>
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<para>
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Since version 2.12, GTK+ provides #GtkBuilder to construct
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user interfaces from XML descriptions, similar to the functionality
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provided by #GladeXML in the libglade library.
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</para>
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<para>
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A good way to start a migration from libglade to GtkBuilder is using
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<application>glade3</application> to convert your .glade file.
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If your code uses the @root parameter of glade_xml_new(),
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you can use gtk_builder_add_objects_from_file() to construct only certain
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objects from a GtkBuilder file.
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</para>
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<para>
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Alternatively, GTK+ also offers the
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<link linkend="gtk-builder-convert">gtk-builder-convert</link> script you can use
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to do the conversion; in which case you should be careful to inspect the output
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and make sure you didn't lose any data.
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</para>
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<table pgwide="1" frame="topbot">
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<title>Step-by-step instructions for porting code from libglade to GtkBuilder</title>
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<tgroup cols="2" colsep="0" rowsep="0">
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<thead>
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<row><entry>libglade</entry><entry>GtkBuilder</entry></row>
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</thead>
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<tbody>
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<row>
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<entry><![CDATA[#include <glade/glade.h>]]></entry>
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<entry>not needed</entry>
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</row>
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<row>
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<entry><screen>GladeXML*</screen></entry>
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<entry><screen>GtkBuilder*</screen></entry>
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</row>
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<row>
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<entry><screen>glade_xml_new (FILE, "first_widget", NULL)</screen></entry>
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<entry>
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<screen>
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GError* error = NULL;
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GtkBuilder* builder = gtk_builder_new (<!-- -->);
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if (!gtk_builder_add_from_file (builder, FILE, &error))
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{
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g_warning ("Couldn't load builder file: %s", error->message);
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g_error_free (error);
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}
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</screen>
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</entry>
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</row>
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<row>
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<entry><screen>glade_xml_get_widget (gxml, “widget_name”)</screen></entry>
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<entry><screen>GTK_WIDGET (gtk_builder_get_object (builder, “widget_name”))</screen></entry>
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</row>
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<row>
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<entry><screen>glade_get_widget_name (widget)</screen></entry>
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<entry><screen>gtk_widget_get_name (widget)</screen></entry>
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</row>
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<row>
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<entry><screen>glade_xml_get_widget_prefix (gxml, “prefix”)</screen></entry>
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<entry>can be emulated by <literal>gtk_builder_get_objects (builder)</literal> together with manual filtering. It returns a GSList* instead of a GList* though.</entry>
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</row>
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</tbody>
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</tgroup>
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</table>
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<para>
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While GtkBuilder strives to be a complete replacement for
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libglade, there are a number of areas where it is currently
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still behind libglade:
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para>
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GtkBuilder supports context information in translatable
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properties in a slightly different way than libglade.
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Intltool does not yet support this; see
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<ulink url="http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=454894">bug
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454894</ulink> for the current status of intltool support for
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GtkBuilder files. Thankfully, context in translations is a
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rarely used feature, and if you are not using it, intltools
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glade format support works just fine for GtkBuilder files.
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</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>
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While libglade can often tolerate multiple widgets having the
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same id in a glade file, GtkBuilder will not accept duplicate
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object ids. Both <application>gtk-builder-convert</application>
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and the GtkBuilder parser emit warnings when they see
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duplicate ids.
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</para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</para>
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</chapter>
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