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[ljfr]

Hi,

Here is an example of a gui build with gtkbuilder.
http://ljfr2.perso.neuf.fr/test/jlexp100609-0.0.0.pet
md5sum: 472979eb1d61fe00ec1bac5d31d1f599 jlexp100609-0.0.0.pet

Take care, this pet will also overwrite your tray file /root/.jwmrc-tray, so if you have any custom feature in it, make a copy, ...

I just followed the example on http://live.gnome.org/Vala/GTKSample, built interface files with glade and included in the vala code some bash functions linked to widgets'signals as in gtkdialog. This is just an experiment but it seems a simple alternative to gtkdialog in case you need some widgets like spinbuttons, combobox, ...

this pet will create a folder /root/jlexp100609 containing program files, try the trayconfig and paramconfig scripts, they are two examples.

It also includes a small utility to parse/read/modify a xml file.
Read the file: /root/jlexp100609/README for more information.

regards,

[BarryK]

Very interesting!

Would you mind also posting your source?

[ljfr]

Hi,

Source files are included,
a brief description is made in the README file:

[ljfr]

Hi, I updated my previous examples, You will find some screenshots bellow.






I added a basic support for treeview, filechooser button.
For using treeview inside glade 3, this is a good introduction:
http://tadeboro.blogspot.com/2009/04/creatin-gtktreeview-with-glade-3.html
Once the treeview is built, the liststore can be filled via a bash function.

Regarding size:
-Original glade files are quite big, but they can be stripped -just delete properties you don't need- you may
achieve to reduce the size by ~50%. I kept original glade files in the 'src' folder, and the compile file is used to build the stripped versions in the 'ui' folder.
-A pet without sources would be ~36k, compared to a ~30k jwmconfig2, but there is no need for gtkdialog3 (the binary is included).

You will find a pet including sources in attachment.

What could be easy to add:
-More widgets: Scale buttons, Radio buttons, Icon view, Link button,
Scale buttons ...
-More signal handlers: show_all, hide_all, set_sensitive, ...


NB:
The traycontent gui is buggy: signals are not blocked when a child window is opened, so if you click in the parent window while a child window is open, you could achieve wild action.

[abushcrafter]

This looks very promising . Though I have not tested it. I am judging by the pictures. Do you have plans to add the ability to have unlimited trays?

[ljfr]

Hi,

I have no development plan, though it should not be really difficult to add multiple tray support so I may do it. Meanwhile, the edited tray is the first one inside the /root/.jwmrc-tray file: If you need to change another tray you can change tray position inside this file.

Note that I have just made few examples to test the potential of vala/gtkbuilder as an alternative to gtkdialog - which lacks some features and is not maintained anymore (disappeared from debian/ubuntu repository).
I see some advantages: execution speed, no need for an internal lexer, simple signal connections, smaller binary...

regards,

[ljfr]

Hi,

I have added multiple trays support, and put everything in this small gui:


To be considered as experimental.

For the vala part, I made few changes: I added GtkIconView and GtkMessageDialog in the list of widget filled via bash, used var args on callback functions, which would make them work on various signals (?, not sure yet) regardless of signatures...

The gui, including sources, is now in the folder /usr/local/bin/jlexp100721, the menu entry is "JWM conf" under the desktop category.
If you install this pet, all your JWM configuration files would be overwritten, I changed /etc/xdg/templates/_root_.jwmrc
to erase keybindings that are in /root/.jwm/jwmrc-personal already.

see the jlexp100721-0.0.0.pet attached, md5sum:
8376d14bc24c4150f3f48c7f6db37588 jlexp100721-0.0.0.pet

regards,


regards,

Note: to compile it with recent version of vala (at least with 9.2 and 9.3) , and gtk version 2.16.6, you have to change the binding of Gtk Widget is_sensitive in the /usr/share/vala/gtk+-2.0.vapi file to:

[abushcrafter]

Tried to try this on 4.3.2v3 but It needed a newer GTK version. I did tried to compile it but got these errors:

[2byte]

nevermind

[ljfr]

Hi,

to abushcrafter:
-regarding your compilation issues on version 4.3, It is because it requires a recent version of vala.

-To access other dialog it is with double-click (or one click to select and enter and space to activate), I just used the default gtkiconview behavior but I will switch to single click, it should be better.
If it doesn't work with double-click, then there is something wrong.


to barryK:
-I will correct the weird /usr/local file tree.

-For other files, you should take at least my:
/root/.jwmrc-tray
/root/.jwm/jwmrc-personal
because when some jwm options are not already defined, it would bug.

Other changes:
-In /etc/xdg/templates/_root_.jwmrc, I erased parameters that are already defined in /root/.jwm/jwmrc-personal, because when for example a key-binding is deleted,
I just want to delete it in /root/.jwm/jwmrc-personal.
-I included themes (/root/.jwm/themes) because I refomat theme preview/snapshots (with the same scale), and I think I cleaned some "corner" color attribute which generated some warnings (and may disturb the apllication since I use jwm internal check).

regards,

[BarryK]

ljfr,
Thanks for the clarification about those other files in the PET pkg.

[technosaurus]

Is there a way to make the ui able to run functions from a calling bash script? Or is it limited to vala coded functions.

[ljfr]

Yes it is possible to call a bash script, I used the function:

[8-bit]

Calling a bash script in gtkdialog, one can use:

<action>exec $shell -c 'bash_script'</action>

I found this in an example a person posted on http://code.google.com/p/gtkdialog/ updates - Last 30 days - Aug 16, 2011 - issue 24.

The complete script is