Custom content in GtkMenus?

2010-06-30 Thread Matthew Allen
I'm trying to put custom content in GtkMenus... things like menu items, date picker controls, lists and so on. These are all custom widgets that I can't rewrite (easily). It seems that GtkMenus are very limited in what they can display, just GtkMenuItems right? If I wrap my controls in

Re: multithreading gtk app

2010-06-30 Thread Vivien Malerba
On 30 June 2010 02:57, Mick bare...@tpg.com.au wrote: can anyone point me to an explanation (with examples) to help me understand running some dialogs in separate threads. (eg. help, preferences, etc) The general recommendation is to avoid using any GTK+ object from different threads (because

Re: multithreading gtk app

2010-06-30 Thread Olivier Sessink
it would be good if the gtk tutorial would spent some pages on threads. In these days where multicore cpu's are becoming the standard a lot of programs can benefit from threads. I'm willing to help with that, I contacted the webmasters from gtk.org about it some time ago but I never received a

Re: central 'library' of self-contained real world examples of code for gtkwidgets

2010-06-30 Thread Olivier Sessink
2010/6/27 Mick bare...@tpg.com.au: In veiw of the nightmare I've had finding non-trivial example code for assembling/implimenting gtk widgets recently I have decided to attempt to assemble a library of functions that impliment a task at a more advanced level than your typical 'Hello world'