Re: Glade GUI: changing mechanism

[Tristan Van Berkom <tvb gnome org>]

tomas tuxteam de wrote:
[...]
> Another aspect of code generation (the one which sold me for Glade in
> the first place): typically, my GTK+ programs are a mixture of widgets
> designed with glade and some generated programmatically (e.g. a table of
> widgets whose dimensions are known at run time). For those cases Glade
> has provided me with sample C code to start with -- a kind of "good
> practices advisor". The project template (with all the autostuff around)
> has been invaluable every time.

In fact,
   the point you raise here in favor of code generation is
a point that many have raised against, the problem is that generated
code goes out of date and becomes unmaintained (mainly because of the
"if it works dont fix it" mentality - which does make sence in this
context), but gtk+ will as much as possible maintain compatability
with old fermenting code... so over time we end up with old fermenting
code in new applications and to top it all off - we have people
referring to this generated code as a "guideline", this is one of the
severe impacts of code generation on our community.

Cheers,
              -Tristan