Re: [gtk-list] Widget factory

[Ed Centanni <ecentan1 tampabay rr com>]

Jeroen Benckhuijsen wrote:
> 
> Havoc Pennington wrote:
> >
> > Jeroen Benckhuijsen <jeroen@benck.demon.nl> writes:
> > > 1. Is there already such a project? I don't want to reinvent the
> > > wheel..
> >
> > Glade is maybe sort of like this, if all you want to do is package
> > some existing widgets into a new composite widget.
> >
> > In CVS, eider/eider/modules/GtkObjectCreator.py is a python script
> > that can spew GtkObject boilerplate.
> >
> > > 2. Is there a need / interest for such a program?
> > >
> >
> > Most likely yes, but your goal should be to create the GtkObject code
> > rather than do a GUI builder like Glade.
> >
> > Havoc
> >
> 
> I don't know if were talking about the same thing here, but i was
> looking through the Gtk tutorials, the section about creating your own
> widgets. I saw that a great deal of the code needed there is always the
> same. So i thought maybe it would be nice to create a program which
> could generate the code for me. This would save me a great deal of
> writing. Stuff like autogenerating code when adding signals ,etc.
> 
> Jeroen
> 
>

Definitely sounds like Glade to me.

Ed.