Re: Widget Factory

[Jeroen Benckhuijsen <jeroen benck demon nl>]

Suboner@aol.com wrote:
> 
> > 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)
> 
> I know exactly what you are talking about, its like a Widget Wizard,
its a
> good idea, I have not seen one available else I would be using it
myself:).
> The need seems to be there I do see a lot of developers creating
their own
> custom widgets despite the already availble widgets in the base Gtk+
library,
> in creating my own widgets I've had to copy and paste a lot of
pre-existing
> code because of large amount of coding time involved. If I were to
do it I
> would give the option to inherit from many diffrent available
widgets at
> least the most signifigant ones like GtkWidget GtkBin GtkContainer
GtkMisc,
> etc etc... In a minor way this program your thinking of could
eventually be
> integrated into Glade, because at some point the lines between Glade
and your
> Widget Wizzard start to blurr, especially in the area of GtkDialog,
where at
> some point saving coding time would mean allowing users to select
what
> widgets the GtkDialog is going to use.
> 
> BTW FYI GOB (as was mentioned earlier) is a preprocessor, you write
code in
> GOBs java/yacc or lex like language, and it converts that code to C
before
> the compiler users it. So its not a program that does what you are
thinking,
> although it is similar, it is more a scripting method of producing
the code,
> while yours is an GUI method of doing it.
> 
> Leyland
> 

Indeed, i've taken a look at gob. At is does exactly the thing i want
to
achieve, however... The way it does is to complicated i think. Also a
GUI for doing this would be nice, hence my proposition to start such a
project (currently already experminenting with the GUI itself). 

Glade integration would be nice. A furhter step would even be (when
it's
ready, tested, works fine ,etc) to integrate it into the gIDE, as will
be done with glade maybe (i read this somewhere, can't remember
where),
thus creating a all-in-one kit to develop Gtk/Gnome appications.
Alright, this may take some time, but the plans are there ;-)).

So i'm thinking to start the development on this program.

Jeroen