[Glade-users] Reading old glade files returns "Couldnt determine project format"

[tristan.van.berkom at gmail.com (Tristan Van Berkom)]

On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 12:12 PM, jason yap <wahoho.yap at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Tristan.
>
> Thank you for the reply. I really appreciate it.
>
> As much as possible, I don't want to migrate the files to the new version
> because this is a very big system and I
> only need to update a few glade files. Would you know if there is still a
> Glade1 software available around?
> I've tried searching but wasn't able to find anything. Google returns Glade2
> or Glade3 results.

The older unused gnome modules have been migrated to read-only repositories
in 'archives/', the repository you're looking for is here:
   https://git.gnome.org/browse/archive/glade-legacy/

Seems tarballs are even still available here:
   http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/glade/1.1/

I'm assuming that you are still using GTK+ 1.2.x from
10 years ago, if you are using _any_ version of GTK+ 2.x
then you should really be using Glade 3.8 (along with
the newer libglade2).

Cheers,
         -Tristan

> Thank you.
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 6:22 PM, Tristan Van Berkom
> <tristanvb at openismus.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2013-03-11 at 17:01 +0800, jason yap wrote:
> > > Hello.
> > >
> > >
> > > I am new to glade and I have been experiencing this problem since last
> > > week.
> >
> > This is not libglade format, this is the original Glade (1) format and
> > is very very outdated.
> >
> > You might try this old conversion script from libglade first:
> >
> >     https://git.gnome.org/browse/libglade/tree/libglade-convert.in
> >
> > And then try opening the results with Glade 3.8...
> >
> > And in Glade 3.8, you'd open the project properties to set
> > the project format to GtkBuilder and "Save As..." another new
> > file.
> >
> > If the project is relatively small, you might want to just re-create
> > the interface with modern Glade... otherwise, your migration path
> > is basically what I outlined above (whatever happens, stay away from
> > the 'gtkbuilder-convert' script, which will create interfaces loadable
> > by GtkBuilder by not understandable by Glade).
> >
> > Cheers,
> >      -Tristan
> >
> >
> > > I have a legacy code (coded around 2001) and I cant seem to open it in
> > > the glade-gtk2 nor in glade.
> > > It is returning "Couldnt determine project format, skipping
> > > <filename>"
> > >
> > >
> > > Im running in Ubuntu Precise 12.04 LTS (64bit)
> > > The libraries that are installed:
> > > glade                 3.12.1-0ubuntu1
> > > glade-gtk2          3.8.0-0ubuntu4
> > > libglade2-0         1:2.6.4-1ubuntu1.1
> > > libglade2-dev      1:2.6.4-1ubuntu1.1
> > > libgladeui-1-11    3.8.0-0ubuntu4
> > > libgladeui-2-0      3.12.1-0ubuntu1
> > > libgladeui-common  3.12.1-0ubuntu1
> > >
> > >
> > > Here is a snippet for an actual GladeXML file from the legacy system
> > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> > > <GTK-Interface>
> > > <project>
> > >   <name>ZID3</name>
> > >   <program_name>ZID3</program_name>
> > >   <directory></directory>
> > >   <pixmaps_directory>pixmaps</pixmaps_directory>
> > >   <gnome_support>True</gnome_support>
> > > </project>
> > >
> > >
> > > <widget>
> > >   <class>GtkWindow</class>
> > >   <name>ZID3</name>
> > >   <width>523</width>
> > >   <height>120</height>
> > >   <signal>
> > >     <name>map_event</name>
> > >     <handler>map_event</handler>
> > >     <last_modification_time>Fri, 26 Jan 2001 04:22:31
> > > GMT</last_modification_time>
> > >   </signal>
> > >   <signal>
> > >     <name>set_focus</name>
> > >     <handler>set_focus</handler>
> > >     <last_modification_time>Fri, 26 Jan 2001 04:22:42
> > > GMT</last_modification_time>
> > >   </signal>
> > >   <signal>
> > >     <name>delete_event</name>
> > >     <handler>gtk_true</handler>
> > >     <last_modification_time>Mon, 25 Nov 2002 06:01:39
> > > GMT</last_modification_time>
> > >   </signal>
> > >   <title>(ZID3)????</title>
> > >   <type>GTK_WINDOW_DIALOG</type>
> > >   <position>GTK_WIN_POS_CENTER</position>
> > > </widget>
> > > </GTK-Interface>
> > >
> > >
> > > If you need other info, please let me know.
> > >
> > >
> > > Would really appreciate it if someone can help me with my problem.
> > >
> > >
> > > Thank you.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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> Research and Development Engineer
> Advanced World Systems, Inc
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