Re: [Vala] gtkaml - An Application Markup Language for GTK+Vala

["Vlad Grecescu" <b100dian gmail com>]

On Feb 3, 2008 8:22 PM, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds gmail com> wrote:
> 2008/2/4 Ed Schouten <ed fxq nl>:
> > * Vlad Grecescu <b100dian gmail com> wrote:
> >  > I had this idea for some months now, to write a preprocessor that
> >  > converts xml like the one below into valid GTK+ code:
> >
> >  But... isn't this what Glade already does?
>
> Glade (or GtkBuilder) format is too verbose. You can hardly write it
> with a text editor. From a first look, it seems gtkaml goal is to make
> it easy to write without a dedicated tool (such as Glade).
> --
> Duy

Thanks Duy, that's exactly the point:
If you know GTK+ you already know how to write gtkaml files.
And since you know Vala already;), you will never have to edit the
generated code (as happened with glade2).