Re: (Newbie!! Help!!!!)How to integrate user functions in gtk

[Tristan Van Berkom <vantr touchtunes com>]

Michael Koppelman wrote:

> I was kind of hoping for an answer as to why this is so much better, 
> myself. When you have something that doesn't change, what is the 
> advantage of being dynamic? It seems like you unnecessarily re-do a 
> lot of work at every execution rather than doing the work once when 
> you compile. Additionally you add a requirement that libglade is 
> available. It seems like a really cool thing, and is something I was 
> unaware of, but I don't necessarily understand why it is so advantageous.

1.) you dont have to recompile your program to adjust your layout.

2.) I find it doubtfull that glade will always keep up with all the 
changes in
gtk+. (wasn't there some deprication going on along those lines ? is glade
really planning to support multi-gui-thread applications on multiple 
diplays once gtk+'s
implementations are finalized ? [the generated code in mutiple languages 
I mean])

theese are a couple of decent arguments; but I could throw in my own
personal argument:

3.) You get to write your own code an manage your own project without
auto-generated interferences ;-) if I wanted to have my code generated;
I would move from emacs to visual basic or something.

If you share my "personal opinoin" point 3; you'll find that the xml parsing
interface is an apropriate decouplage of responsabilities and a 
convenient api.
(i.e. x/y and widget flags and all those definitions are "glades" 
responsability
and not your problem).

Cheers,
               -Tristan