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sc0ttman · Joined: 16 Sep 2009 Posts: 2806 Location: UK

I may be wrong, have to look into it further, but I think the new gtkdialog does not like dynamically built GUIs, which use something like

8-bit · Joined: 03 Apr 2007 Posts: 3425 Location: Oregon

Where are you getting the GTK-VLC package?
I downloaded and installed vlc using the Puppy Package Manager and found that first, vlc is a compiled file and not a gtkdialog script.
Then I picked a Country-Western directory of music and everything worked fine.

But maybe I am missing something.
That is why I want to know the name of the package you installed.

thunor · Posted: Sat 30 Jul 2011, 08:35 Post subject:

8-bit: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=54753

sc0ttman · Joined: 16 Sep 2009 Posts: 2806 Location: UK

Thunor, cheers...

You're right on every case, the examples are just showing my lack of coding skills, there... Whoops!

But thanks for the info, very thorough and easy to understand, as always.
I will apply the changes, as I'm looking to update VLC-GTK, which is why I was asking.

I have seen 01mickos GTKDialog check elsewhere and planned to use that instead, thanks for finding it again for me! Smile

This does raise a question for me, I think sunburnt mentioned it earlier..

Is it just me, or does GTK dialog have a fairly archaic way of setting options for each widget?

I am no expert at all, it will be my lack of knowledge as well,
but there seems to be a slight lack of consistency

- Some options are allowed here, but not there..
- options seem to take xxx="yes/no", others xxx="true/false" or maybe xxx="0/1"

For example, I often wonder why "width-request" and "height-request" are allowed in some widgets, but are NOT allowed in others..

Can all "yes/no" options be made to ALSO accept "true/false" and "0/1"? (and so on...)
That way we can just use a consistent value on our scripts..
(sorry if its a dumb thought...)

But I will look over the wikka thing, and re-read all your work..

sc0ttman · Joined: 16 Sep 2009 Posts: 2806 Location: UK

Also, I am willing to solve this myself of course, but help is very much appreciated..

Open VLC-GTK, and drag the window away from the centre of the screen.
Then click on the 'Streams' tab.. The sizing make the window move..
The same thing happens with the 'General Settings' tab at the bottom.

I understand this problem has something to do with 'width-request'..

Once it has happened (the resizing and moving of the window), it does not happen again.

I have come across this a few times, and found fixes to be fiddly.
Any help would be much appreciated.

EDIT : fixed, never mind....

8-bit · Joined: 03 Apr 2007 Posts: 3425 Location: Oregon

thunor,
When I asked the question as to where, scOttman's post read completely different.
He edited it after my reply.

ScOttman,

I have looked at your program and I see what you meant about the play button being grayed out.
If you think that is because of a nonexistent file just search for it differently.

sc0ttman · Joined: 16 Sep 2009 Posts: 2806 Location: UK

thunor · Posted: Sat 30 Jul 2011, 17:32 Post subject:

disciple · Posted: Mon 01 Aug 2011, 06:51 Post subject:

Just FYI, it looks like Flash has got around to making the package collections/repositories section publicly visible, so everyone should be able to see the "Index of programs using gtkdialog" now Smile

Thanks Flash - I was starting to worry this was becoming like the Ubuntu forum, where you seem to need to be logged in to read half the pages, or download attachments, or whatever...

Dougal · Posted: Mon 01 Aug 2011, 16:32 Post subject:

thunor · Posted: Tue 02 Aug 2011, 11:16 Post subject:

Overhauled the menu and menuitem widgets - final

The widget reference is available here.

Updated 2011-08-07 22:11 to include a theme icon menuitem with a requested size of 32 (value goes into either the width or height directives and you'll get that size if it's available).

Added support for submenus by nesting the existing menu widget.
The menu widget -- being essentially a menuitem with a submenu -- now supports the same tag attributes and directives as the menuitem widget.
Added support for images from files via the "image-name" custom tag attribute (scaling works too).
The image from file menuitem widget supports the disable, enable and refresh action functions.
Created a new name for the existing separator widget: menuitemseparator.
Added checkbox and radiobutton menuitem support via the "checkbox" and "radiobutton" custom tag attributes.
The checkbox and radiobutton menuitem widgets support the disable, enable, refresh and save action functions.
The theme icon menuitem widget now supports using the height or width directives to override the default theme icon size of 16.

Please note that I can't complement the existing "stock" and "icon" custom tag attribute names with "image" as it's a GTK+ property, and "file" is meaningless so I've created "image-name". The tree widget also accepts the extended names "stock-id" and "icon-name" so "image-name" is consistent with these, there's just no short version.

<menu> and <menuitem> widgets example:

thunor · Posted: Tue 02 Aug 2011, 16:36 Post subject:

BarryK · Posted: Wed 03 Aug 2011, 09:28 Post subject:

thunor · Posted: Wed 03 Aug 2011, 18:49 Post subject:

thunor · Posted: Sun 07 Aug 2011, 18:17 Post subject:

Improved the theme icon support

The menuitem widget reference is available here.
The button widget reference is available here.
The pixmap widget reference is available here.

I've updated the menuitem, button and pixmap widgets to support using the height or width directives to override the default theme icon sizes of 16, 20 and 32 respectively.

If you want to know a bit more about what's going on here, theme icons are loaded using the GTK+ gtk_icon_theme_load_icon function and one of its parameters is "size", so if you declare something within the height or width directives then that's what I'm setting "size" to, else I use a default. Note that "the resulting icon may not be exactly this size".

Example: