Re: Libglademm and Glademm code for Gtkmm

[Alan Ott <alan signal11 us>]

Paul Davis wrote:

> It might be possible to do something with includes to make this a 
> buffer.  The hardest thing would be doing proper escaping.  Does 
> anyone know off hand if valid XML must replace the " character.... 
> what am I talking about, of course its common as crap.  Its too late.  
> Anyway, if anyone can think of a way to do this, let me know.  It 
> would be neato.

I've thought about this problem too, and I haven't been able to come up 
with any #include tricks to make this work. My next idea is to try to 
use the reswrap tool which is shipped with fox-toolkit 
(www.fox-toolkit.org). reswrap takes a file and generates a C char array 
which is a byte-by-byte representation of your file suitable for 
#including (similar to an XPM). It's easier to show than explain.

One of the examples from the libglademm distribution generated this:

/* Generated by reswrap version 3.1.0 */

/* created by reswrap from file example.glade */
const unsigned char example[]={
 
0x3c,0x3f,0x78,0x6d,0x6c,0x20,0x76,0x65,0x72,0x73,0x69,0x6f,0x6e,0x3d,0x22,0x
 
0x2e,0x30,0x22,0x20,0x73,0x74,0x61,0x6e,0x64,0x61,0x6c,0x6f,0x6e,0x65,0x3d,0x
 
0x6e,0x6f,0x22,0x3f,0x3e,0x20,0x3c,0x21,0x2d,0x2d,0x2a,0x2d,0x20,0x6d,0x6f,
 ...
 0x64,0x65,0x2d,0x69,0x6e,0x74,0x65,0x72,0x66,0x61,0x63,0x65,0x3e,0x0a
 };

The preferred way to use it would be to make a custom build step to 
generate a C file (let's call it gladedata.cc) from your *.glade file, 
then compile the gladedata.cc into your executable and load it with 
Xml::create_from_buffer().

*disclaimer* I've never done this, so I can't say for SURE that it 
works. Although it seems like it should and you should try it let us know :)

From some quick googling, it looks like reswrap is packaged standalone 
for gentoo, it might also be packaged for Debian/apt. I put a windows 
binary here: www.signal11.us/~alan/reswrap.exe for convenience (if 
you're into downloading and running EXEs off the internet from strangers).

Alan.





> Arthur wrote:
>
> > Hey, guys, if anyone could give me a hint about if there is any 
> > advantage of using only libglademm when working with gtkmm, instead 
> > of using Glademm generated code, I would be very pleased. Could you 
> > send me any reading reference about it?
> >
> > Thank you in advance.
> >
> > Arthur Maciel
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