Re: Question about Glade vs no Glade

[Thierry Vignaud <tvignaud mandrakesoft com>]

Daniel Kasak <dkasak nusconsulting com au> writes:

> > Trying to decide if it's about time I learnt to build gtk2-perl
> > apps using Glade for building the UI, leaving more time to write
> > the stuff that does important things in the background.

(...)

> As for your second question, I think that using Glade is the only
> way to go. Others will disagree with me. But using Glade means that
> you've got more time for actual coding, and also that modifications
> are much easier - especially when you're building complicated forms,
> and *especially* if someone else has to modify your creation.

maybe do one save some time when prototyping a GUI, but when you'd to
change sg, you'll have to change it everywhere whereas with real code,
you can factorize common stuff (compare with HTML+CSS or LaTeX against
HTML as found in most web pages)

thus you eventually loose time while maintaining your application and
it may be error prone (eg: one forget to update a place).

but of course, one can run some regexpes on the xml files, ...

what's more, reading patches on xml is painful whereas one can check
what's altered in cvs commits when it's perl instead of xml.