I started using the Gazpacho user interface builder yesterday. I have to point out the troubles that I came into, which made me fall back in straight procedural hildon gui building(OK, I also wanted to get a better understanding of the process).
1. There are some errors in the tutorial. This was pointed out by a previous poster in the list. Sometimes the DISPLAY variable has to be set before running some command, for example:
this tries to launch the maemo specific things on my desktop X diplay, not too practical:
[sbox-TARGET: ~] # inside ScratchboxInstead use:
[sbox-TARGET: ~] > gazenv-init.sh start
DISPLAY=:2 gazenv-init.sh start
3. Bugs in gazpacho: Tried to create a gtk.Button with a jpg image on it. While it showed on the preview window and all, when I reloaded the .glade file my button was empty every time.
4. Probably due to the above, python complained about something in the glade file and my (very simple helloworld) program crashed.
Any insights from other gazpacho users? I would say that it a very valuable tool, since applications can be built really really fast. Moreover, I do not agree with the python loading times issues that other users here are talking about. ALL applications at least in my 770 take at least 1 sec to open initially(well, the ones that actually do something usefull). Adding 1-2 seconds upon that is not much of a usability difference.
Cheers.
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