Glade and preferences dialog

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> writes:

> Hi
> Sorry about this, some gtk beginners questions.
>
> I am looking at how to add an option to the preferences dialog.  I see
> where this is defined in preferences.glade and deduce that I should
> use Glade to edit it.
>
> First question, do I need a particular version of Glade?  The one in
> the Ubuntu 9.10 repository is 2.12.2 so it would be good if that were
> ok.

Yes, glade-2

> Once I have an appropriate version of Glade do I open
> preferences.glade with it and off I go, with the help of the glade
> docs?

Yes.

> I wish to save the setting of my new checkbox, it seems that this is
> done via apps_gnucash_general.schemas.in.  Is this coded by hand or is
> there a tool for this also.

THAT I don't know....  I think it may be hand coded, but I'm not sure.

> Colin

-derek

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