Re: [gtk-list] Widget factory

[Jeroen Benckhuijsen <jeroen benck demon nl>]

Ed Centanni wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

Err... no

What i want to do is to be able to create widgets themselves, not using
widgets to create a GUI. So i will (if build ofcourse) be used to create
GtkWidgets (or even GNOME widgets)

Jeroen