Re: C++/Gtkmm/XML compared to C#/WPF/XAML

[Daniel Boles <dboles src gmail com>]

Just for emphasis

On 27 April 2017 at 14:09, Bill William <wm2015email gmail com> wrote:

really wish gtkmm would specific an XML language for specifying the instantiation of gtkmm GUI objects without the need of glade

It does. It's called Gtk::Builder (i.e. GtkBuilder).

 

Really wish glade and GTKMM would get together and clone this aspect of C#/WPF in a way similar to SharpDeveloper.

Well, Glade is an upstream GTK+ targeted utility, so it doesn't care about bindings. gtkmm is perfectly happy to consume the files produced by Glade, however.

 

The problem I have with all these GUI automation tools like glade, etc... is that they are all based on the old winforms model ofdragging and dropping everything with a graphical tool with X,Y coordinates...

This is not true. GTK+ uses relative positioning and sizing (unless you punish yourself with GtkFixed or other old baggage).