RE: [gtkmm] Generating .glade(s) from within an app?

[Murray Cumming Comneon com]

 > I've been thinking about making a clone of a program for the 
> macintosh called "FileMaker Pro". In FMP you could lay out a 
> bunch of fields and create a database, placing the fields 
> arbitrarily, graphically. I was thinking to implement that 
> capability I could make the program generate .glades , and 
> save the in a .tgz along with the berkeley DB file. Do you  
> people have any ideas about this? Is making my own .glades 
> even necessary?

I'm not sure that it's a good idea. You'd have to either use glade itself or
reimplement it's layout functionality. But a .glade file is just XML, so
creating it would not be difficult.

I have also thought about implementing this part of the FileMaker
functionality. If I ever get around to it, I will restrict the layout a lot
more. FileMaker layouts are still a bit too difficult, but people always
want to create the same columnar layouts. Well, some people want to do wacky
stuff, but I don't think that should make things more fiddly for most
people. I am getting off topic.

Murray Cumming
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