glade and scale widgets

johnson_steve · 03-14-2006, 11:59 PM

So I'm new to this and I'm just trying to make a simple front end, but I cant seem to figure out how to get the value of my scale widgets. the only how-tos that I can find are either very simple how to make an interface with glade but not how to use them outside the limited scope of the example programs or, the gtk+-2.0 tutorial geared more to coding the whole thing yourself. but I cant find anything about using the adjustments that glade sets up. basically all I need to do is get the value of a scale widget and print it to the console that the programm is running in.

acid_kewpie · 03-15-2006, 01:25 AM

you just need to back up to the abstract GtkRange widget, calling get_value via whatever language this is done in. http://www.gtk.org/api/2.6/gtk/GtkRa...ange-get-value you can see the heirarchy of widgets in the list at the top there. so any method in an abstract widget will be still accesible in any specific based upon it.

johnson_steve · 03-15-2006, 02:08 AM

thank you for your reply acid,
I should've mentioned it's gtk 2.0 with C. the link you have apears to be for gtk 2.6 but if I cut and paste it exactly it compiles fine but I'm not sure how to print this or get it into a variable so that I can use it.

acid_kewpie · 03-15-2006, 02:41 AM

well that's just plain how to use c i'm afraid.

Code:

double my_value;
my_value = gtk_range_get_value($my_widget);
printf ("value = %d", my_value);

etc...

MicahCarrick · 03-15-2006, 09:49 AM

Here's a C/libglade version. I didn't test it... it's just off the top of my head. It assumes the glade file is named "gui.glade" and that your scale widget has a signal handler named "on_scale_value_changed" defined in the glade file (under the signals tab of the properties window).

Code:

/* this would be in main() */
GladeXML *gxml;
gxml = glade_xml_new ("gui.glade", NULL, NULL);

/* this OR glade_xml_signal_autoconnect */
glade_xml_signal_connect (gxml,
                "value-changed",
                G_CALLBACK(on_scale_value_changed));
                
                
/* this is the callback for the "value-changed" signal */                                    
void 
on_scale_value_changed (GtkWidget *widget, gpointer user_data)
{
        gdouble val;
        val = gtk_range_get_value (GTK_RANGE(widget));
        
        /* print to screen */
        g_print("Range value: %e" val);
}

MicahCarrick · 03-15-2006, 09:59 AM

Okay, there should be a comma in that g_print call up there. Also, just to be sure I compiled a quick test, here's the whole thing. Compiles on my system using:

Code:

gcc -o test -Wall -g main.c `pkg-config gtk+-2.0 --cflags --libs `-I/usr/include/libglade-2.0 -lglade-2.0

main.c

Code:

#define GLADE_FILE "gui.glade"

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

void 
on_hscale1_value_changed (GtkWidget *widget, gpointer user_data)
{
        gdouble val;
        val = gtk_range_get_value (GTK_RANGE(widget));
        
        /* print to screen */
        g_print("Range value: %d\n", (guint)val);
}

void 
on_window1_destroy (GtkWidget *widget, gpointer user_data)
{
        /* break gtk_main() loop */
        gtk_main_quit();                        
}

int 
main (int argc, char *argv[])
{
        
        GtkWidget *main_window;  
        GladeXML *gxml;
        
        /* initialize the GTK+ library */
        gtk_init (&argc, &argv);

        /*
        create an instance of the GladeXML object and build widgets within
        the window1 root node.
        */
        gxml = glade_xml_new (GLADE_FILE, NULL, NULL);
        
        /* get the window widget from the glade XML file */
        main_window = glade_xml_get_widget (gxml, "window1");
        
        /* connect signals */
        glade_xml_signal_connect (gxml, "on_window1_destroy", 
                G_CALLBACK(on_window1_destroy));
        
        glade_xml_signal_connect (gxml, "on_hscale1_value_changed", 
                G_CALLBACK(on_hscale1_value_changed));

        /* show the main window */
        gtk_widget_show (main_window);

        /* begin main GTK loop */
        gtk_main ();
        
        return 0;     
}

gui.glade

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?> <!--*- mode: xml -*-->
<!DOCTYPE glade-interface SYSTEM "http://glade.gnome.org/glade-2.0.dtd">

<glade-interface>

<widget class="GtkWindow" id="window1">
  <property name="visible">True</property>
  <property name="title" translatable="yes">window1</property>
  <property name="type">GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL</property>
  <property name="window_position">GTK_WIN_POS_NONE</property>
  <property name="modal">False</property>
  <property name="resizable">True</property>
  <property name="destroy_with_parent">False</property>
  <property name="decorated">True</property>
  <property name="skip_taskbar_hint">False</property>
  <property name="skip_pager_hint">False</property>
  <property name="type_hint">GDK_WINDOW_TYPE_HINT_NORMAL</property>
  <property name="gravity">GDK_GRAVITY_NORTH_WEST</property>
  <property name="focus_on_map">True</property>
  <signal name="destroy" handler="on_window1_destroy" last_modification_time="Wed, 15 Mar 2006 15:55:53 GMT"/>

  <child>
    <widget class="GtkVBox" id="vbox1">
      <property name="visible">True</property>
      <property name="homogeneous">False</property>
      <property name="spacing">0</property>

      <child>
	<widget class="GtkHScale" id="hscale1">
	  <property name="visible">True</property>
	  <property name="can_focus">True</property>
	  <property name="draw_value">True</property>
	  <property name="value_pos">GTK_POS_TOP</property>
	  <property name="digits">0</property>
	  <property name="update_policy">GTK_UPDATE_CONTINUOUS</property>
	  <property name="inverted">False</property>
	  <property name="adjustment">5 0 100 1 5 5</property>
	  <signal name="value_changed" handler="on_hscale1_value_changed" last_modification_time="Wed, 15 Mar 2006 15:52:49 GMT"/>
	</widget>
	<packing>
	  <property name="padding">0</property>
	  <property name="expand">True</property>
	  <property name="fill">True</property>
	</packing>
      </child>

      <child>
	<widget class="GtkLabel" id="label1">
	  <property name="visible">True</property>
	  <property name="label" translatable="yes">www.micahcarrick.com</property>
	  <property name="use_underline">False</property>
	  <property name="use_markup">False</property>
	  <property name="justify">GTK_JUSTIFY_LEFT</property>
	  <property name="wrap">False</property>
	  <property name="selectable">False</property>
	  <property name="xalign">0.5</property>
	  <property name="yalign">0.5</property>
	  <property name="xpad">5</property>
	  <property name="ypad">10</property>
	  <property name="ellipsize">PANGO_ELLIPSIZE_NONE</property>
	  <property name="width_chars">-1</property>
	  <property name="single_line_mode">False</property>
	  <property name="angle">0</property>
	</widget>
	<packing>
	  <property name="padding">0</property>
	  <property name="expand">False</property>
	  <property name="fill">False</property>
	</packing>
      </child>
    </widget>
  </child>
</widget>

</glade-interface>

johnson_steve · 03-15-2006, 02:21 PM

Thank you all for your help. I will study your examples and I am sure I will learn some things (I have not used c since middleschool and then just simple dos stuff so I'm just about completely lost) but, for some reason I only received email notification for acid's first post; so I stayed up till 4:00am and figured it out before I saw these examples. this is what I ended up with:

Code:

void
on_Fader2_value_changed                (GtkRange        *range,
                                        gpointer         user_data)
{	
	
	gdouble value2_float=
	gtk_range_get_value(GTK_RANGE(range));
	int value2 = value2_float;
	g_print("\n%d", value2);
	
}

but thank you very much for your help any notes on what I might be doing wrong would be appreciated.

MicahCarrick · 03-15-2006, 02:46 PM

Glad you got it working. Just a quick note...

Code:

gdouble value2_float=
	gtk_range_get_value(GTK_RANGE(range));
	int value2 = value2_float;
	g_print("\n%d", value2);

could instead be...

Code:

int value2_float=(int)gtk_range_get_value(GTK_RANGE(range));
	int value2 = value2_float;
	g_print("\n%d", value2);

which is "casting" the gdouble value into an integer... which is essentially what you're doing by assigning value2_float to value2.

johnson_steve · 03-15-2006, 02:56 PM

oh, now I get Email. so are you saing:

Code:

int value2=(int)gtk_range_get_value(GTK_RANGE(range));

would put the value as an int in value2 ?

MicahCarrick · 03-15-2006, 03:17 PM

Right. Lookup "casting in C" on google to get specifics.

Also, the "GTK_RANGE(range)" is a casting macro. In that case, it's casting a GtkRange into a GtkRange-- redundant. However, if range was declared as a GtkWidget, you would then need to cast it into a GtkRange pointer before passing it to any gtk_range_SOMETHING function.

Casting is pretty common with GTK+/C and will help you out quite a bit to understand it and it's pit falls.

Good luck.

johnson_steve · 03-15-2006, 03:29 PM

thanks for your help