Re: [gtkmm] Gtkmm or Qt?

[Christer Palm <palm nogui se>]

Dr Mark H Phillips wrote:
> Am I right in thinking that libglademm allows interfaces to be generated
> from an xml file rather than through specific gtkmm function calls?

Yes.

> Does this xml file have to be generated by glade, or are there library 
> functions for building the xml code which would allow the fine-tuning
> of your gui at runtime?

Obviously, it doesn't _have_ to be generated by Glade, but there's no 
API to generate it. Your program will use libglade to "import" the xml 
file, which builds the GTK widget hiearchy in memory. You are then free 
to do any runtime "fine-tuning" you want using the standard GTK API. 
This is actually the normal procedure as there is usually some aspects 
of the user interface that are dynamic.

libglade provides a helper function to look up widgets in the generated 
widget hiearchy using the widget name provided in the xml.

> How well does libglademm link in with libsig++?  Does the fact that the
> latter is implemented using templates hinder runtime signals and slots
> that you might wish to create?

There are no limitations like that as you write the code to connect the 
signals yourself.

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Christer Palm