Thread: Gtk Plug, Socket, embed one program into another.

Hello,
I'm trying to embed some program into another using the plug and socket mechanism. From the examples which I have found on the Internet all the widgets of program A are placed into the plug and then the plug is connect into the socket of program B and then A appears inside B.
I'm trying to make the same as with A in Glade (program for designing gtk gui) so it would embed into some IDE, does it means I need to create a plug and move all of it's window's widgets into the plug?

Here is the original code in Glade where I want to create the plug:
glade_window_init (GladeWindow *window)

Code:

{
	GladeWindowPrivate *priv;

	GtkWidget *vbox;
	GtkWidget *hpaned1;
	GtkWidget *hpaned2;
	GtkWidget *vpaned;
	GtkWidget *menubar;
	GtkWidget *palette;
	GtkWidget *dockitem;
	GtkWidget *widget;
	GtkWidget *sep;
	GtkAction *undo_action, *redo_action;
	GtkAccelGroup *accel_group;	

	window->priv = priv = GLADE_WINDOW_GET_PRIVATE (window);
	
	priv->default_path = NULL;
	
	priv->app = glade_app_new ();

	vbox = gtk_vbox_new (FALSE, 0);
	gtk_container_add (GTK_CONTAINER (window), vbox);
        .....................
        .....................
}

So from the original code you can see that Vbox is created inside the Window and the
rest of the widgets are created inside the Vbox.

Now, I need to create a plug so I can embed this program to another.

So I have looked on a few examples to do so and they all look similar to this:

Code:

 	GtkWidget *plug;
	plug = gtk_plug_new (win_id_of_socket);
	gtk_container_add (GTK_CONTAINER (plug), vbox);
 	gtk_widget_show ( plug );

The Vbox is added inside the plug and all other widget are inside the Vbox.
this code is working great but I don't know how to modify Glade's code to work like this.

The problem is that in Glade's code there is a Window widget, all of Glade's code depends on it to be a Window, so I can't put the Vbox inside the plug.

Maybe some one could help me with this?

Hmm, never tried this feature of gtk, will check it out.

I guess you wouldn't have this problem if you didn't use glade. I don't, so I can't really help with that.

Anyway, you might want to try the gtk forum, a lot of glade users there:

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