1. How to close a secondary euGTK window?
Hi Everyone
I'm working on a little app which fetches historical quotes from yahoo finance.
I'm using Irv's old gtk2 lib for my gui.
I've created a gtk calendar to allow for date range input. I've done it simply
by creating another window for the calendar. It basically duplicates Irv's
calendar demo except that I want to be able to close the calendar when the quit
button of the calendar window is pressed, not the whole app.
I'm sure this is simple but for the life of me I can't work out how to just
close the calendar window from a button press.
As an aside, I've downloaded Michael J. Sabal's most recent version of euGTK but
as there are no demos with it I haven't looked at it yet. What benefits are there
over the old library?
Any help greatly appreciated.
Cheers
Mark
2. Re: How to close a secondary euGTK window?
Mark Brown wrote:
>
> Hi Everyone
>
> I'm working on a little app which fetches historical quotes from yahoo
> finance.
> I'm using Irv's old gtk2 lib for my gui.
>
> I'm sure this is simple but for the life of me I can't work out how to just
> close the calendar window from a button press.
You have two choices:
If you are creating the calendar window on the fly as a result of a menu
option or button click, you can gtkSet(calendarWindow,"destroy",{}) to
get rid of it. On the other hand, if you want to close it to bring it back
later, just use hide(calendarWindow) and show(calendarWindow).
>
> As an aside, I've downloaded Michael J. Sabal's most recent version of euGTK
> but as there are no demos with it I haven't looked at it yet. What benefits
> are there over the old library?
>
Thanks to Jesse's help, a lot of features from the 2.10 version of GTK+ are
now supported. All existing functionality from 2.4 is still there, so the
original demos still work (at least the ones that weren't already broken).
The other big change is version separation. You can use the 2.10 version of
euGTK with any version of the GTK+ dlls or so's.
>
> Any help greatly appreciated.
>
> Cheers
>
> Mark
If you're willing to share, I'd be very interested in your program when it's
ready.
Mike
3. Re: How to close a secondary euGTK window?
- Posted by irv mullins <irvm at e?li?ay.com>
Mar 10, 2008
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Last edited Mar 11, 2008
I have sent Rob a new version of the demo programs.
There are a few patches to the gtk 2.10 includes I need to send as well,
how is the best way?
Irv
4. Re: How to close a secondary euGTK window?
irv mullins wrote:
>
>
> I have sent Rob a new version of the demo programs.
> There are a few patches to the gtk 2.10 includes I need to send as well,
> how is the best way?
>
> Irv
Thanks Irv. Glad to see you're still about. Probably the best way is to email
them to m underscore sabal at yahoo tod com.
5. Re: How to close a secondary euGTK window?
Michael J. Sabal wrote:
> If you're willing to share, I'd be very interested in your program when it's
> ready.
Hi Mike,
Many thanks for the help. All working the way I wanted it to now. I like gtk for
gui creation very much, particularly because it works so well on my Zaurus. I'm
very pleased that someone is maintaining euGtk. Also very pleased to see Irv is
still around, I thought he had moved on.
My little app still needs a lot of work. I want to do technical analysis with it
and to that end I'm wrapping ta-lib ( http://ta-lib.org/ )for use with euphoria.
My gtk code is something I've resurrected from 2005. Back then I was trying to be
clever and over-wrapped Irv's functions. In retrospect that wasn't very clever at
all as the result isn't very versatile.
Perhaps a simpler stock ticker app without my wrapper rubbish might be a useful
demo until the ta-lib stuff is done? I don't think there are any stock tickers in
the archive.
Mark
