Re: [gtkmm] libglade for gtkmm

[Murray Cumming <murrayc usa net>]

On Mon, 2002-09-16 at 16:01, Sarah Leitner wrote:
> We are considering developing our own xml-compliant
> language, called Interface Definition language (IDL).

IDL (Interface Definition Language) is used by CORBA. And COM too.

> In this language they would define what widgets the
> developer could use, along with any applicable
> tooltips or names (e.g., a button might have a name,
> such as push me).  We are working on setting up
> details, such as how the buttons will be automatically
> arranged, where they would be located, etc.  We would
> then instantiate this when the program is run.

I think you could just dynamically check the widgets as they are loaded
from a libglade file. libglademm already does some dynamic_cast<> checks
for instance, and Bakery::ConfClient and Bakery::VariablesMap does
specific things to specific types of widgets.

> We have been planning to write our own code to do all
> this, but I would like to consider using libglade. I
> have several questions: 1.) is libglade still beta?
> Has anyone used it successfully,

No, it's not beta. libglade is in heavy use throughout GNOME. libglademm
exists and seems to work too.

> and 2.) can I adopt
> libglade to work like I want it to? Or are we better
> off writing our own code to do this?

See above.

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