Re: Best way to work with gtkmm.

[Bob Caryl <bob fis-cal com>]

John C. Spray wrote:

> <snip>
>
> Basically, code generation has only two advantages:
>      * No libglade installation required
>      * Don't need to find .glade file at runtime (but you need to find
>        other files, right, so what's the problem?)
>  
Actually, because I wrote a utility to convert the .glade file to an 
include file and use it with:

Gnome::Glade::Xml::create_from_buffer()

the only "advantage" I see for code generation is the first bullet point 
above.  I would also note that I have created some pretty complex 
applications that use this method and I have not experienced any 
problems with it whatsoever  (knocks on wood).  I put a conditional 
compile in my code so that, during development of the GUI, the 
application it loads the .glade file.  Once the application development 
is finished, it is compiled with the .glade file as part of the 
executable and voila!  No problems trying to find a .glade file to load 
at run time.

Bob Caryl

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