Re: The Big Gtk limitations: a reliable GUI builder

[Daniel Kasak <d j kasak dk gmail com>]

Glade crashes sometimes, yes. It's been much better recently - 3.20
seems pretty stable for me. I don't edit liststores in glade at all,
so I can't comment on that - I construct and populate them
dynamically, and use glade just to place the treeview. I don't really
have the other issues you're talking about. I can move things around
freely without issues - cut and paste. I've written quite a few apps
over the past 15 or so years, using glade and gtk ( 2 and 3 ) - most
recently an ETL framework's UI - this is quite a complex beast. No pen
and paper involved. No QT either. Maybe record a screencast of your
issues so we can get an idea of what you're doing wrong.

Dan

On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 3:51 AM, Pozz Pozz <pozzugno gmail com> wrote:
> I don't know why, but some weeks ago I selected Gtk as my next GUI
> framework to learn. After some work, I have a very big issue: the
> associated GUI builder Glade is not stable at all.
>
> Many times, when I work with Treeview and Liststore, Glade crashes. I can't
> press Ctrl+C to copy a sub-tree to another place.
> The render is not good: margins aren't shown correctly after loading the
> file.
> It's impossible to move widgets from one place to another (maybe from one
> box element to a grid element).
>
> I know I can design the GUI directly in the code, but it's a big effort for
> me. Usually my GUIs are full of widgets and I'd like to preview them.
>
> How do you create complex GUIs? Do you really use pen and paper and write
> it directly in code?
>
> IMHO this is a very big limitation and I'm tempted to migrate to QT
> libraries, even if I loose many working days.
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