Re: [gtk-perl] GladeXML

[René Seindal <rene seindal dk>]

On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 09:31:54PM -0400, Ross McFarland wrote:
> well based on mail passing back and forth on the list as of late it
> seems that Gtk2::GladeXML is getting a little bit of use and no problems
> have been reported. i'll still stand by my earlier statements that it's
> pretty incomplete (as far as verification and testing goes) but it does
> seem to work. so that being said i've bumped the version to 0.25 and now
> declair that it is ready for a preliminary, beta quality release. (have
> at it, whenever you get a chance, muppet.)

Hi Ross, just to give you a bit of feedback.

I have a couple of applications that use gtk2-perl-xs and libglade,
tough I only use a subset of the functionality.

Here is what I use which all works for me.

    my $glade = new Gtk2::GladeXML($GladeXML, $root);
    $glade->signal_autoconnect(\&autoconnect_helper, "$this");

    my $window = $glade->get_widget($root);

I use my own autoconnect handler which also works fine.

I guess most uses of Gtk2::GladeXML will got little further that this.

> if you know much about the details and innards of libglade then step
> forth and take a look at the guts of it and let me know what you find
> otherwise it will probably forever stay at 0.25.

It is perfectly usable for basic usage, so maybe you should just call it
1.0.  A 1.0 version number will probably get more people to use it than
a 0.25 which could easily seem too unfinished to be usable, which is not
the case.

-- 
René Seindal (rene seindal dk)                  http://sights.seindal.dk/