On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Jim George<jimgeo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm writing a program that, like gimp, has a control window, from
> which users can open one or more viewer windows that present different
> aspects of a data set (it's a weather radar display program). The
> sub-windows are identical, and I'm using libglade and glade-3 to do
> the interface layouts. Currently, I call glade_xml_new each time I
> want to create a new window. Is there a better way, which prevents
> libglade from having to parse the XML each time?
>
Sure, you can build the dialog at startup time or on demand
the first time, but just hide it and show it on demand.
> Also, I'm interested in moving to GtkBuilder. Do I use different xml
> files for each window and create a new GtkBuilder object for each new
> viewer window, or is there a smarter way?
GtkBuilder works pretty much the same way, but GTK+ now inherits the
parsing code, so you cannot build a GTK+ interface from a GtkBuilder
format file without running the actual parsing code from the widgets
(which I guess is one thing libglade provides that GtkBuilder does not;
the ability to compile the glade file into a binary and completely
replace the parser).
Cheers,
-Tristan
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