Re: libglade vs. glade

[Gus Koppel <gtk spamkiller bytechase cx>]

Gyözö Both wrote:

> ah, yes, i found this out, too, after browsing a bit (next time i
> browse first and ask then, promise :-)). what i still don't know,
> however, is what the advantages of using libglade instead of letting
> glade generate the source files are -- besides having less to compile
> and a smaller executable. or is this the main advantage?
>
> and there's the disadvantage of a slower program startup, right?

Right, but not necessarily program startup only. But please see

http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/libglade/libglade.html

for the libglade reference, including an overview, and

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-app-devel-list/2005-January/msg00148.html

for a recent thread which thoroughly covers pros and cons of libglade
XML versus Glade created code. A number of cons against libglade can be
found in

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-app-devel-list/2005-January/msg00227.html