Re: Re: Interface with Component Tree

[Alexander Gottwald <alexander gottwald informatik tu-chemnitz de>]

On 24 Sep 2001, Daniel Ruoso wrote:

> I started to think about this project when I tried to use glade2perl. Maybe glade could be a first step for 
> the IDE, but glade2perl is not exactly object oriented. For example, when you generate the source code, it 
> create a file with the soubroutines for the signals, you do not have the file with the definition for each 
> window (and worse, it overwrites the file even if you've already defined some routines).
> Explaining better: glade2perl generates a perl code from the XML file, I'm not talking about generating 
> code, the code will be there and will be used the way it is, the only thing is going to happen is some 
> subclasses of the classes that defines the components. The idea is to improve the perl Gtk library with the 
> capability of read a definition in the top-level component and create all the second-level components 
> inside it, then the third-level and so on...

Oops, mixed the names. The module i was talking about is Gtk::GladeXML. It
reads the XML and builds the widget tree at runtime. The VCL does the same.
It parses the dfm and creates the component structure.


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