Re: The Big Gtk limitations: a reliable GUI builder

[pozzugno <pozzugno gmail com>]

First of all, I'm using Glade 3.20.0 for Windows, installed through 
Msys2 project. I don't know if Glade is more stable under Linux OS.

When I open a file, non-null margins aren't rendered correctly. Take a 
look at the screencast [1]. As soon as I change one margin (from 10 to 
11, for example), it is rendered correctly.

Another problem, is very difficult to drag&drop one or more widgets 
(under a sub-tree) between two places. When I click on a widget (or 
container) and start moving, the mouse pointer disappears at all, so the 
target place is very difficult to find (see [2]). During dragging 
movement, something appears at the top-left corner of the window.

It is very simple to have a crash when working with Treeviews. Open the 
attached file, select the Treeview, press Ctrl+C (or select Copy) and... 
puff! Other times Glade crashes when I try to create a column in the 
Treeview.

When I copy a box filled with widgets from one container to another 
container, it seems the margins value aren't copied. I don't know if 
there are other parameters that aren't copied.

Daniel, you wrote you don't populate liststore associated to treeviews. 
I agree with you, but if you don't populate the associated liststore (at 
list the columns description), the treeview is rendered with zero space. 
Even if you add columns in the treeview, you need to associated a 
compatible liststore to see the real effect.

Those are bugs related strictly to Glade, so this post could be 
off-topic for this mailing list. However my goal wasn't to list all the 
bugs I found in Glade, but to understand if my Gtk/Glade workflow/setup 
is wrong someway.


[1] 
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1s7dNPGsJ3CQmpxTTVfZkZfdFE/view?usp=sharing
[2] 
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1s7dNPGsJ3CQmpxTTVfZkZfdFE/view?usp=sharing


Il 29/11/2016 23:08, Daniel Kasak ha scritto:
> 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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