On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Fabien COUTANT wrote:
> On Thursday, 29 March 2001, you (Alexandre Fayolle) wrote:
> > On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Fabien COUTANT wrote:
> >
> > > PS: this will be used to complete a tool I wrote:
> > > http://www.fcoutant.freesurf.fr/gladepyc.html
> >
> > This could be a very useful tool. What has stopped me using glade so far
> > is the lack of Windows support which is one of the target of the
> > application I'm working on. I think I'll give a try to gladepyc soon.
>
> Hello Alexandre,
>
> Gladepyc will happily generate code that runs on Unix, Vms as well as
> Windows.
>
> There is glitch however: non-ASCII characters are encoded with UTF-8 on
> Windows' Gtk and ISO-Latin1 (or other 8-bit encoding) on Unix' Gtk (1.2
> at least); So if you have some of those characters entered in Glade's
> XML on one side, they are not rendered correctly on the other side. It
> works perfect only if you use the generated code on the same platform
> that Glade's XML was designed on.
Well, with gtk 2.0, hopefully this sort of issue will be a thing of the
past, as it uses utf8 on all platforms.
>
> That said, Glade for Windows seemed reasonably stable, from what I
> tested a few months ago. All this GTK/Glade stuff for Windows is
> unofficial though -- yet.
There are ports of glade (see the gtkada website) and libglade available
for win32. I usually recommend libglade to most people, as some of the
stuff it does is non trivial (uline accel handling is the big one).
James.
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