Re: Form manager

2006-01-15 Thread Jörn Reder
Jaap Karssenberg wrote: > I looked at that module before and I got the feeling that it is intended > as an alternative interface for the Gtk2 widgets. Here you're wrong ;) It just wraps the most important Gtk2 widgets and adds the convenient auto-updating magic to them, but it's not an alterna

Re: Form manager

2006-01-14 Thread Jaap Karssenberg
Jörn Reder wrote: That's very similar to what Gtk2::Ex::FormFactory does. You can take a look at the documentation here: http://www.exit1.org/Gtk2-Ex-FormFactory/ Basic principle is to declare the data model resp. the objects of your application, build your dialogs out of several widgets an

Re: Form manager

2006-01-14 Thread Jörn Reder
Jaap Karssenberg wrote: > Now I'm thinking of a module which I would call Gtk2::Ex::FormManager > (although suggestions are welcome), which would do for my preferences > dialog what uimanager does for the menu- and toolbar. > > The idea is to have an array that defines name/type/default etc. o

Form manager

2006-01-14 Thread Jaap Karssenberg
Hi, I recently discovered the pleasures of working with Gtk2::UIManager. I like it so much that I dropped backward compatibility for gtk < 2.4.0 for my applications. Now I'm thinking of a module which I would call Gtk2::Ex::FormManager (although suggestions are welcome), which would do for m