Re: The Big Gtk limitations: a reliable GUI builder

[Pozz Pozz <pozzugno gmail com>]

2016-11-30 9:09 GMT+01:00 Nicola Fontana <ntd entidi it>:

> Il Wed, 30 Nov 2016 11:08:13 +1100 Daniel Kasak <d j kasak dk gmail com>
> scrisse:
>
> > ...
> > My normal workflow is to lay things out *roughly* in glade, then
> > actually run the app and see what it looks like.
> > ...
>
> This is my workflow too, apart the fact that after the first draft
> I prefer to edit the XML files directly.
>
> I always had problems with glade on Linux (also with glade 2
> and/or with GTK+2) but I never submitted bugs because I'm not
> really that interested. If your workflow heavily rely on a GUI
> builder, you have 4 options: (1) use glade as is, (2) prepare to
> file bugs and wait for the fixes, (3) fix the bugs yourself or (4)
> switch to another GUI. You can also push to speed up (2)... but
> you are already doing it.

I'm interested in (3)... I'm not a guru, but I'm able to write some code
and fix simple bugs. However building current version of Glade under
Windows it's a difficult task for me. The configure script complained with
the GTK_DEBUG_CHECK (or something similar) present in the configure.ac.