Re: gtk2 or glade?

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Sep 24, 2004, at 7:08 PM, David Alcobero wrote:

> I have one question:
> What's better, programming with gtk2 writing every lines of the code 
> or use glade? What aventages and disaventages have both?  It's worth 
> writing gtk2 code?

first, to make sure we're on the same page, you don't want to generate 
code with glade, you want to use libglade (Gtk2::GladeXML) to load the 
gui description on the fly.

secondly, i think the answer to the question you actually asked is 
incredibly subjective.  instead i'll answer the related question, 
"should i start with Gtk2::GladeXML or by learning the gtk+ api and 
building things 'by hand'?" to which the answer is a resounding "learn 
the API first, then start using glade."

the reasoning is very simple: libglade is meant to automate tedious and 
repetitive gui-building code, but not to replace it.  you will still 
have to grab widgets and do setup that glade couldn't do for you, so 
you have to know how it all works anyway.

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