Re: HIG and Escape

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Ian Britten wrote:
> On Sun, 09 Mar 2003 21:01:01 -0600
> Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu> wrote:
>
> > As for Glade-ifying, doesn't that require that we depend on libglade?
>
> Excuse me for jumping into the middle of your conversation, but I think I
> can clear up a (common) confusion (Assuming I understand what you're
> discussing...)
>
> 'Glade' and 'libglade' are separate, but related, packages.  Glade is the
> GUI builder application.  It lays out your dialogs (Very easy - Highly
> recommended), and has no dependency on libglade.  Glade saves it's
> information in a .glade (XML) file, and from this XML description, the
> application can generate your compilable code (C/C++/etc) for your
> dialog.
>
> 'libglade' is a tool/library that can be used to instantiate a UI
> directly from Glades XML file, at run-time.  It doesn't need your UI to
> be compiled.  The big benefit of libglade is that you can change the XML
> file (some), altering labels, constraints, etc, and you simply re-run the
> application and your changes will immediately be apparent (No
> recompiling).

Thank you for clearing this up.  Makes me a lot more positive about Glade.

> We had initially used libglade, but we found it didn't work on Windows
> (Several years ago - dunno now), and we also found it hard to use in a
> development environment where everyone had multiple checkouts, branched
> versions, shared applications, etc - Getting each app to find it's
> correct .glade file (at startup) required care.
> Distribution/installation requires that the .glade file be shipped, and
> that it can be found when the application starts.  There may be
> standardized techniques for this now, but there weren't before...

We'll stay clear of that, then, if nothing else then for the Windows port.

Thanks for clarifying the muddy waters.

-Lars

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