[Glade-users] why using libglade is better...

[Tristan Van Berkom <tristan van berkom gmail com> (Tristan Van Berkom)]

On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 11:23:00 -0700, Christopher Cramer
<crayc greatjustice org> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 01:29:12PM -0400, Tristan Van Berkom wrote:
> > If you want to re-create the popups every time you use them then you'll
> > need to seperate them into seperate glade files, this way you will gain
> > on RAM but loose on CPU (because your program will have to reload the
> > glade file every time for your popup).
>
> You don't actually need to put them into a separate file to be able to
> recreate them. What I do is put them all in the same file, and only load
> the widget (the main app window, a dialog window, etc.) that I need,
> using the root argument to glade_xml_new().
>
> The documentation for glade_xml_new() says, "Note also that the XML
> parse tree is cached to speed up creating another GladeXML object for
> the same file", so it shouldn't actually have to reload the glade file
> for every popup. It certainly seems to me that the startup (when it loads
> the main app window from the glade file) is quite a bit slower than the
> popup creation, although I haven't profiled it.

Ahhh,
     sorry the "root" argument eluded me :-)

Cheers,
                              -Tristan