Re: Allow code in glade callbacks?

[James Curbo <james teyandei net>]

Ross McFarland wrote:
> i like the name scaffold much better than anjuta2, that's cool, it at
> least seems to suggest what it does.

I think so too, it is a nifty name. Supposedly it is completely plugin 
based and will use devhelp, glade, gtksourceview, etc. There's a 0.1 on 
gnome.org but I haven't touched it yet.

> as for this patch i'd probably lean away from implementing the patch. as
> it stands glade xml files are language independent, this would put
> language specific stuff in them. there are a few examples out there
> where glade xml files are provided with a library's code that implement
> a default dialog box that projects using the library can use to get the
> same feel as everyone else (gnome spell comes to mind) basically the
> patch only makes things simpler, it doesn't provide functionality that
> you wouldn't otherwise lack. i don't think blowing the glade xml format
> would be worth it.
>
> that being said this would possible be a good add on for someone to look
> into. come up with a perl module (that would be rather simple) that read
> in it's own xml format (like glade xml, but called something different.)
> it could basically look through the file and pull out all of the code
> putting it in functions with unique names and replace the code with that
> function name. i would prefer something along these lines if this is
> that big a deal.

A Gtk2::GladeXML::something module would be acceptable to me, even if I 
think that one shouldn't be doing it in the first place.

James