Building reusable components with gtk glade

I am writing a simple application and am using glade (gtk) for the UI. I need many windows (~10), of which one will open depending upon the command line flags, other contextual stuff etc.

Now, all these windows are pretty much similar, they have 3 top level tabs, the last tab is the same in all, all have a OK and Quit button etc., so I am looking for a way to build these windows in glade. I could copy paste one window and make the changes in that, but I am looking for a better way, that 开发者_Go百科will allow me to reuse the common parts of the windows.

Also, I am using pygtk for loading up the windows.

Design a widget with the common aspects you mention. Wherever you need to implement something different, put a GtkAlignment with an appropriate name. Don't forget to change the alignment and fill values of the GtkAlignment.

In PyGTK you can gtk.Builder.get_object(name) to get access to these empty regions and add the extra components within them (which can also be designed with Glade).

Ok, with the help of detly's answer, I am able to get something working. For anyone who needs it, here is what I did.

main.glade contains the window and all the common cruft that I need to be displayed in all windows. comp.glade contains a window, with a vbox component with the extra stuff I need, lets call it 'top_comp'.

Now, in main.glade, I put a gtk.Alignment component in the place where I need the extra component to load, and call it, say, 'comp_holder'. With the builder I have, I do

builder = gtk.Builder()
builder.add_from_file('main.glade'))
builder.add_from_file('comp.glade'))

builder.get_object('top_comp').reparent(builder.get_object('comp_holder'))

This method seems to work for now, but I don't know if it is the correct way to do this thing.

Any suggestions for the above welcome.