PicoGUI does pretty much everything with an interface like this:
myWidget = pgNewWidget(PG_WIDGET_BUTTON, PG_DERIVE_INSIDE, parentWidget);
pgSetWidget(myWidget,
property_1, value_1,
property_2, value_2,
...
0);
That would indeed be nifty if glade2 could be made to use PicoGUI widgets like this.
The other concern though is having real WYSIWYG previewing while you build the GUI. I
have been assuming that with Glade I would have to wrap Gtk widgets with a layer to
emulate PicoGUI widgets' properties. Is this the case, or could it be interfaced
somehow to use real PicoGUI widgets?
Thanks,
Micah
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 05:14:50PM +0100, Carlos Perell? Mar?n wrote:
> El vie, 15-02-2002 a las 19:59, Damon Chaplin escribi?:
> > On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 23:00, Micah Dowty wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I was wondering how difficult it would be to adapt Glade to edit GUIs other than
>GTK.
> > >
> > > I'm the original author of PicoGUI (http://picogui.org), a new GUI architecture
>designed for embedded systems. We've been wanting to implement a "widget template"
>feature where a predesigned layout of widgets including their properties and all
>related objects can be designed ahead of time as a template, then instantiated one or
>more times by the application later on.
> > >
> > > The format used at runtime would be optimized for minimal CPU and memory usage,
>but we're thinking about using XML as the source format. Since Glade is a GUI editor,
>and uses XML, I thought it might be a good starting point.
> > >
> > > In case you're wondering about the differences between GTK's needs and PicoGUI's
>needs... PicoGUI is client-server, but all widgets are built into the server. Widgets
>have properties, and they can generate events, like the signals in GTK. PicoGUI does
>not allow x,y coordinates, and instead every widget has a couple properties to
>specify the layout. PicoGUI has something like a layout manager built in, that
>requires each widget to 'stick' to one side of its parent then use the remaining
>space for the next widget in that level of GUI hierarchy.
> >
> > I'm afraid Glade is extremely GTK+-specific, so I doubt much of the code
> > would be of use. Though maybe the overall architecture may be
> > interesting.
> >
> > If the PicoGUI widgets support generic querying & setting of widget
> > properties then you may want to look at the glade2 module in CVS rather
> > than the original glade (where we had to code individual support for
> > each property).
>
>
> Yes, If you have this feature it's ?easy? to use glade2 with PicoGUI. If
> you use gobject (from glib) as gtk does you will be able to use glade2
> as libgnome will do (almost I'm trying to do it this way).
>
>
> Cheers.
>
> >
> > Damon
> >
> >
> >
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