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.\" gob manual page
-.\" (C) 1999,2000,2001,2002 George Lebl <jirka@5z.com>
+.\" (C) 1999,2000,2001,2002,2005 George Lebl <jirka@5z.com>
.\"
.\" This manual page is covered by the terms of the GNU General
.\" Public License.
(using GNU extensions some warnings are eliminated, some ugly hacks and there
is better argument type safety, so it\'s good to use them)
.TP
+.B --no-touch
+Don\'t touch output files unless they really
+changed (implies --no-touch-headers). Be careful with automake, see section
+PREVENTING SPURIOUS BUILDS.
+.TP
.B --no-touch-headers
Don\'t touch the generated header file unless it really changed, this avoids
spurious rebuilds, but can confuse some make systems (automake in particular),
}
.fi
+.PP
+To make an abstract class (to pass G_TYPE_FLAG_ABSTRACT) add \'(abstract)\'
+before the curly braces above. This works since version 2.0.13.
.SH DATA MEMBERS
.PP
.PP
The OBJECT type is one of the types that doesn\'t have a \'default_value\' and it
only has an \'object_type\' attribute (in addition to nick and blurb of course)
-that is the exact object type that this property accepts.
+that is the exact object type that this property accepts. The object_type
+should be as a type, that is for example \'Gtk:Button\'.
.PP
There is a BOXED type which is a pointer which has a boxed type defined
(such that GObject knows how to copy and destroy this pointer). Here
.fi
.PP
+To use BOXED in the signal arguments you need to tell gob which type of boxed
+argument you want to use. For this you can just add BOXED_GTK_TYPE_STRING
+instead of BOXED. For example BOXED_GTK_TYPE_TREE_ITER for GtkTreeIter.
+This works since version 2.0.13.
+.PP
.B "Override methods:"
.PP
If you need to override some method (a signal or a virtual method
Also note that the first argument is not "self", but the servant and you must
use bonobo_object_from_servant function to get the actual object pointer.
+.SH DIRECT LIBGLADE SUPPORT
+.PP
+Gob can simplify writing a libglade class. Just create a new object that
+derives from a GtkContainer widget. Then use a "GladeXML" class flag
+with the glade file name, root widget and optional domain as arguments
+between double quotes. For example:
+.nf
+
+class My:Glade from Gtk:Window (GladeXML "gob-libglade.glade" "root")
+{
+ ....
+}
+
+.fi
+Note however that then "gob-libglade.glade" would have to be in the current
+directory. You could specify a path, but that may not work for all
+installations. You can replace the glade filename with a token to be used
+in the generated .c file and you can then have a macro with the filename,
+as follows:
+.nf
+
+class My:Glade from Gtk:Window (GladeXML GLADE_FILE "root")
+{
+ ....
+}
+
+.fi
+And somewhere in your header files you would have
+.nf
+
+#define GLADE_FILE "/path/to/file.glade"
+
+.fi
+
+You can declare widgets as data members by adding a 'GladeXML' to
+the definition.
+.nf
+
+private Gtk:Button * button1 GladeXML;
+
+.fi
+This will automatically set the "button1" from the GladeXML file.
+
+All signals created with glade are automatically connected if you defined
+those class methods in your class. For example suppose in glade that
+we set the "connect" signal on button1 to go to on_button1_clicked, then
+in our gob file we can just write:
+.nf
+
+public void
+on_button1_clicked(self, GtkButton * button)
+{
+}
+
+.fi
+
+See the examples directory for a full example. Note that this feature
+requires version at least 2.0.12.
+
+
.SH IDENTIFIER CONFLICTS
.PP
Gob will need to define some local variables and functions in the generated
have to include both the .gob and the .c and .h files in the SOURCES for your
program.
+.SH PREVENTING SPURIOUS BUILDS
+.PP
+When nothing has changed you might not really want to rebuild everything and
+gob provides options --no-touch (since 2.0.13) and --no-touch-headers to avoid
+this. When working with build systems such as automake you have to be more
+careful as just using those options can cause automake to get confused and you
+will need to use something like the following:
+.nf
+
+ foo_SOURCES = foo.gob foo.gob.stamp foo.c foo.h foo-private.h
+ BUILT_SOURCES = foo.gob.stamp
+ MAINTAINERCLEANFILES = foo.gob.stamp
+
+ %.gob.stamp: %.gob
+ @GOB2@ --no-touch $<
+ @touch $@
+
+.fi
+
.SH DEBUGGING
.PP
GOB does several things to make debugging the code easier. First it adds
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