Re: Glade questions and other stuff

[Aaron Lehmann <aaronl@vitelus.com>]

On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Chema Celorio wrote:

> About GLADE :
>     I have been playing around with glade and I think is excellent piece
> of software !.
> I also believe it is a great idea to use it not only on drgenius but on
> any project.
> 
> But I have some questions that you can help me clarify :
> 1.) If I open the "drgenius.glade" file in glade and save it without
> making ANY changes
> everything compiles as normal. The only "diff" I get is in a ".backup"
> file created ( which makes
> sense ).
> 
> _BUT_ if I change a small cosmetic thing, for example I changed the
> string : "Save multiple files"
> to "Save multiple files xyz" and then build the project, then after I
> compile drgenius I get an error message during compilation.
> 
> After playing with it for a while I found out that if I disable the
> option "Output Build File" that is under the "C Options" tab, drgenius
> compiles and runs OK, I can also see the changed string when I run the
> program. When this option was selected some build files where created on
> the glade directory which is why I disabled this option. The only thing
> that I can think of is that the glade version used to create this file
> is not the same as the one I am using. I am using  version 0.5.5.
> 
> Can someone clarify this to me please ?
> 
> NOTE :
> I am compiling with the following command. Is this correct ?
> "./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/lib/var
> && \
> make && make install && ldconfig"
> 
> BTW: Using Red Hat 6.1.
> 
> = = = = OTHER stuff = = =  =
> 2.) It seems to me that it is intended to have ONLY one calculator
> window. Shouldn't the button that opens the calculator window read
> "Calculator" instead of "New Calculator". And the pop-up help
> "Create a New Calculator"  read "Open Calculator Window" ??
> 
> 3.) In the calculator : the function "Kernel" does not seem to
> work for my system. AND "Kernel(1)" gives me a SEGFAUL ??
> Should we disable this function for now ?
> 
> 4.) BUG ?
> If you click more than one time on top of the "New Canvas"
> button ( say three times ), you open several canvas toolboxes.

This is too lame to be called a hack. Since there is no toolbar yet, i am
just sloppily popping up a pallete every time a canvas is created. I
haven't considered it a priority to fix this up becuase (hopefully) soon
it will be replaced with a real toolbar.

> 5.) Who is the official drgenius maintainer ? who should I send
> my code changes to ?

Send them to George, probably. But if you plan to do serrious work, you
should probably get a CVS account and commit changes directly. Mail
miguel@gnu.org if you want an account in GNOME CVS, with your prefered
username and password.

> 6.) Whish list  : It will be great to have a "Close all" option on the
> menu.

Not very hard. I can do this if you want.

> THANKS
> Chema Celorio
> 
> 

aaron lehmann