Re: Would love some feedback on my tutorial...

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Olexiy Avramchenko wrote:

> Ben Johnson wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 11:11:23AM +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
>> ...
>>
>>> Code generation with Glade is silly. People should use libglade.
>>
>>
>> why do you think code generation is silly?  why is libglade better?
>> isn't it sort of like the difference between 6 and a half dozen?  I'm
>> just curious.
>
> The main difference, as I think, is that you can't change anything in
application after generated code is compiled. Using XML interface
description you can make changes in already compiled app with any text
editor.
>
> Generated code is not well-structured and its more hard to reuse it.
>
>     Olexiy

...Which brings me to another question...  After seeing these little
back-and-forths about libglade I searched around on the internet and found
out a bit about libglade.  I've started wrting the next "segment" of the
tutorial using libglade instead, and put a note in the current tutorial
about libglade.

I'm currently reading Havoc Pennington's "GTK+/Gnome Application
Development" as one of my sources.  Now I realize it's out of date,
however, I still feel it provides a good solid background for me in some
of the overal concepts. So, with libglade, do I no longer have to deal
with a GnomeUIInfo?  Is that handled by libglade?

Second question, should I be learning to use gnome_program_init() instead
of gnome_init()?

Micah Carrick
http://www.micahcarrick.com