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[Lobster]

I am putting together this info on using FreeBasic and Glade
http://tmxxine.com/wik/wikka.php?wakka=FreeBasic

FreeBasic working
Glade working

Now I get this . . .

[MU]

I think glade2bas is outdated and will not work with new versions of Glade, if I remember well.

You can do this:

freebasic has an example folder.
FreeBASIC/examples/libraries/Gtk/

I use Puppy3 with FreeBASIC-v0.18.3b-linux.tar.gz from the freebasic-website, so I don't know, if they are included in Puppy 4.

So I do:

cd FreeBASIC/examples/libraries/Gtk/
fbc glade_gui.bas
./glade_gui

That compiles and runs a program.
The program displays some elements in a window, that are loaded from glade_gui.xml.
This is a file created with Glade.
You cannot open this file in Glade 3, but that is no problem, as we can use a new one.

Now for tests, I create a subfolder "1".
I copy there glade_gui.bas and glade_gui.
I run glade (3.0.3), create a new window with some buttons.
I save that file as /root/project.glade.
Now I copy this file to FreeBASIC/examples/libraries/Gtk/1/glade_gui.xml

Then I type:
cd FreeBASIC/examples/libraries/Gtk/1/
./glade_gui

Now my new window is displayed, instead of the Glade-example.

The buttons do not react, and I must exit it by pressing CTRL-C in the consolewindow.
The reason is, that the buttons have different names than in the Glade-example xml file.
So I now had to edit glade_gui.bas to rename the example-functions, where a button is pressed.
You can open glade_gui.xml in a texteditor, to see the names (or look them up in the properties dialog in Glade).

Mark

[Lobster]

Thanks Mark

I just found this on Barrys blog
which means it is a known bug
that was? is? sorted?

[MU]

glade2bas.glade
Maybe that is the one, that you create yourself with glade for your program?
Mark

[Lobster]

Did think of that but was too obvious

Will give it a go . . .
many thanks
. . . ah progress . . .