Re: glade project mini-rfc

[Xavier Bestel <xavier bestel free fr>]

Le lun 04/10/2004 à 16:23, Tristan Van Berkom a écrit :
> Gob is a kind of way to get around wiritng you boiler plate code to generate
> actual object oriented code. In glade we are only concerned with some aspects
> of the external API of an object (g_object_new(), get_property(),
> set_property(),
> add_child() ...)  and how to represent an object heirarchy or "widget layout"
> so that it can later be interpreted by libglade.
> 
> Actualy, in some cases the xml will define properties that are only needed
> for the glade environment and are never needed in real life (example, 
> GtkBox gets a "size" property so that it can be filled with "size" placeholders
> that serve as "click" areas for the user to add new widgets).

Yes, and I thought the "boiler plate xml" could be generated from the
.gob too, maybe just to be modified by hand of through additions to Gob.

> My goal is that all of these kinks and twists can be handled in the xml
> catalog and its accompanied plugin.
> 
> Cheers,
>                                                                 -Tristan
>