Re: bonoboui toolbar bits ...

Hi Ricardo,

On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 19:43, Ricardo Fernández Pascual wrote:
> Great. That will surely help us. We will have to reimplement some of our
> "old" controls but this is great news. Thanks!

	Good; I'd sub-class the bonobo-ui-toolbar-[button-]item if I were you,
that's prolly the best way then you can adapt to the style / want/label
/ orientation settings etc.

> Context menus are my main problem with bonoboui. What is the api that
> you propose? Will it be implemented? ;)

	Well - since you can do everything you need by simply whacking a
control (now widget) in there - it seems there's not much more you need?
in the worst case, it's as complicated as Gtk+.

> Also note that for adding context menus for menus I have to use the
> button_press event (and when porting to gtk2 I needed the event_after
> signal too in order to make it behave correctly). I don't know how would
> this fit in the API.

	Again - currently to do that, you have to insert a widget.

> That would be enough for most things. 

	I still havn't got to the DoFile_left|right|middle type thing yet -
which sucks; if someone wants to hack up a patch I'm interested though.

> > 	bonobo_ui_component_freeze
> > 	... umpteen operations ...
> > 	bonobo_ui_component_thaw
>
> I think I'm not doing it. I'll look.

	The freeze / thaw will (should) give a fairly massive performance
improvement ;-)

> But my point is that having to build XML for building a menu is a pain,
> even if it could be done efficiently. It's good for the apps interface
> because you keep it in a separate file and it's clean. But building the
> XML from C is messy.

	Sure; it sucks, there were helper methods to do it - but IMHO they
rather sucked too so I axed them ;-)

	HTH,

		Michael.

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