[glade--]Re: glade-- and gtkmm-1.3

[Christof Petig <christof petig-baender de>]

Petr Ferschmann wrote:
> Hello
>
>   I did not found version of glade-- which supports gtkmm with version 1.3. 
> Is there any support now? I would like to help you with that.
>
> 	Thank you for your answer

Current Situation:

glademm 0.6.4b should recognize gtkmm2, and tell you that it would 
generate code for it. But actually there is no single line which is 
gtkmm2 specific.

What needs to be done:

1- the file format of glade-2 has changed, glademm needs to understand 
both (different XML tree, now glade-2 uses attributes). So an 
abstraction layer is needed (I need support for both file formats)

2- the autoconf code has to detect correct parameters (include path, 
library path/name) using PKG_CONFIG (?)

3- perhaps the API of some widgets has changed (e.g. Pixmap), so these 
widgets need to generate different code:
 if (Configuration.gtkmm_version>=Pkg_Version(1,3,x)) {} else {}

4- the new list widget code needs to be written.

I'd love to do 1. Perhaps a migration to using libxml2 internally is a 
good idea at the same time.

If you need fast results, use glade (V0.6), start with 2 (should be 
about 30min time) and try which widgets still work (step 3). If you want 
 you can also address 4. But please keep me informed to avoid duplicate 
effort.

   Christof