Embed Another Program in a GTK Program

VarwigSoftware · 09-20-2012, 08:45 PM

Hello Everyone,

I am trying to embed Nautilus and possibly the gnome-terminal into my GTK Application. I would like to add it to a section on a hbox? Any Ideas. I have goggled an i am not finding much on how to embed an external program into a GTK+ Applcation. I am using C on Ubuntu 12.04.

Is there a way to use X Window in a GTK App? or a GTK Widget that shows other programs?

Thank You!

amboxer21 · 09-20-2012, 11:41 PM

if you want to embed a Vterminal in your GTK application you need to install libvte and all its variants. The VTE widget is for GTK2.x only. Look here for the documentation -> http://developer.gnome.org/vte/unsta...eTerminal.html

A basic example of embedding the vte

Code:

#include <gtk/gtk.h>
#include <vte/vte.h>

static gboolean delete_event(GtkWidget *widget, GdkEvent *event, gpointer data) {
gtk_main_quit();
return FALSE;
}

// To compile append gcc file.c -o output `pkg-config --cflags --libs gtk+-2.0 vte`
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {

gtk_init(&argc, &argv);
GtkWidget *window;
GtkWidget *table;
GtkWidget *swindow;
GtkWidget *vte;

window = gtk_window_new(GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL);
gtk_window_set_default_size(GTK_WINDOW(window), 400, 400);
gtk_window_set_position(GTK_WINDOW(window), GTK_WIN_POS_CENTER);
gtk_widget_show(window);

table = gtk_table_new(10, 10, TRUE);
gtk_container_add(GTK_CONTAINER(window), table);
gtk_widget_show(table);

vte = vte_terminal_new();
gtk_widget_show(vte);

swindow = gtk_scrolled_window_new(NULL, NULL);
gtk_container_add(GTK_CONTAINER(swindow), vte);
gtk_table_attach_defaults(GTK_TABLE(table), swindow, 0, 10, 0, 10);
gtk_widget_show(swindow);

g_signal_connect_swapped(G_OBJECT(window), "delete-event", G_CALLBACK(delete_event), NULL);

gtk_main();
return 0;
}

amboxer21 · 09-21-2012, 01:57 AM

As for nautilus -> http://developer.gnome.org/libnautil...-provider.html

EDIT: if your going to embed anything don't use boxes to pack. Pack using tables.