On Sun, 09 Mar 2003 21:01:01 -0600 Lars Clausen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> As for Glade-ifying, doesn't that require that we depend on libglade? Excuse me for jumping into the middle of your conversation, but I think I can clear up a (common) confusion (Assuming I understand what you're discussing...) 'Glade' and 'libglade' are separate, but related, packages. Glade is the GUI builder application. It lays out your dialogs (Very easy - Highly recommended), and has no dependency on libglade. Glade saves it's information in a .glade (XML) file, and from this XML description, the application can generate your compilable code (C/C++/etc) for your dialog. 'libglade' is a tool/library that can be used to instantiate a UI directly from Glades XML file, at run-time. It doesn't need your UI to be compiled. The big benefit of libglade is that you can change the XML file (some), altering labels, constraints, etc, and you simply re-run the application and your changes will immediately be apparent (No recompiling). We had initially used libglade, but we found it didn't work on Windows (Several years ago - dunno now), and we also found it hard to use in a development environment where everyone had multiple checkouts, branched versions, shared applications, etc - Getting each app to find it's correct .glade file (at startup) required care. Distribution/installation requires that the .glade file be shipped, and that it can be found when the application starts. There may be standardized techniques for this now, but there weren't before... Hope this enlightens someone! Ian _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/faq.html Main page at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia
