using GtkScale

Mk27 · **Posted:** Fri Mar 06, 2009 7:48 pm

Pursuant to my last post about using a gtk interface to openGL, how can I use a GtkScale to control, eg. a global variable? The API and all the documentation seem to be about using it with "adjustments", which look to me like values internal to the GUI. Which I guess makes sense because usually there is just a GUI.

Is there not a way to use a gsignal_connect() or something so that I can link the slider to an arbitrary value?

Mk27 · **Posted:** Fri Mar 06, 2009 8:06 pm

Okay I found it, silly me. But I must be misunderstanding something

Code:

float vector[3]={0.8f,0.8f,0.8f};
GtkWidget *slider=gtk_hscale_new_with_range(0.0,1.0,0.05);
gtk_scale_button_set_value(GTK_SCALE_BUTTON(slider),(gdouble)vector[0]);

I was hoping the slider would start up set to 0.8, but it is 0.0.

What's the deal?

Mk27 · **Posted:** Fri Mar 06, 2009 8:35 pm

Whoops again! Should have been gtk_range_set_value!

Now I just have to be able to get, the value...

If anyone has like, a very short little example of how they've done something like this (I know you're out there), it would be much appreciated.

[edit] oh my goodness there's a get_value too? So why does the API repeatedly state you must use the "value-changed" signal??
[edit] because you can use g_signal_connect...

Sigh. It's working great except you can't issue openGL commands in a signal handler function (segfault, I guess because there's no syncronization). I don't know if that will become a problem or not.

Anyone who's used GtkGLExt have anything to say about it?

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