[Glade-devel] Embedding glade in other applications (like IDE)

[e98cuenc free fr (Joaquin Cuenca Abela)]

Sridhar wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm not sure whether glade-2 supports this (i.e. using glade 
> as a widget or component within applications like IDE).
> Somewhere else I saw glade-3 people are working componetizing glade.
>
> I am actually working on a IDE project.  In that, I like to 
> use glade as the GUI designer (instead of reinventing the same wheel).
>
> But the problem is using glade within application. 
> Also my application is intended to be portable to all 
> platforms where gtk is portable.  
>
> My doubt is how can I use glade-3 within my own IDE project.  
> Do glade-3 uses ORBit or something else.  If so, is that 
> library (eg. ORBit) portable to non-UNIX systems like 
> MS-Windows?  Well. where can I get started?

No, we don't depend in anything other than plain gtk+.  I build regularly a
windows version with MS Visual C 6.

The build processus is not exactly trivial, as we build the part that
handles the code specific to gtk+ widgets (glade-gtk.c) as a dll that calls
back some functions of the main glade (as for instance, to create a
placeholder here and there).

As I didn't managed to export the needed functions from glade-3.exe, I put
the needed functions in an internal dll, that it's used by glade-3.exe and
glade-gtk.dll.

So the easiest way to get a w32 build will probably be to just ask me for a
msvc project (I have not put it in cvs).

It should be quite easy to embed it in your project, however it's still beta
quality.

Cheers,