[Glade-devel] Embedding glade in other applications (like IDE)

07 Jan 2004 09:45:17 -0500

Hey

We won't be using ORBit or some other middleware. I remember I had a informal
discussion on this with Jeroen (one of the, if not the, lead programmers on
Scaffold -  an IDE), and campd, and we had thought that it would be just 
simple and nice to provide a simple C interface. And on top of that people
can make bindings for languages like C++, Ruby, Java, Python etc..

Now, work towards making this happen hasn't been deliberately started, but
the way the code in glade-3 works is such that it is possible to do so with
relative ease. This is because all components are seperate classes (good ol'
OO programming :D).

All we need is

1) some more discussion on a standard API
2) someone to code a shared library layer to encapsulate all of these
components

Both relatively simple (Hey! This ain't the GtkFileSelector :-) ) to do if
someone gets down to it

Cheers!
Archit

Sridhar R <sridharinfinity@yahoo.com> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm not sure whether glade-2 supports this (i.e. using
> glade as a widget or component within applications
> like IDE).
> Somewhere else I saw glade-3 people are working
> componetizing glade.
> 
> I am actually working on a IDE project.  In that, I
> like to use glade as the GUI designer (instead of
> reinventing the same wheel).
> 
> But the problem is using glade within application. 
> Also my application is intended to be portable to all
> platforms where gtk is portable.  
> 
> My doubt is how can I use glade-3 within my own IDE
> project.  Do glade-3 uses ORBit or something else.  If
> so, is that library (eg. ORBit) portable to non-UNIX
> systems like MS-Windows?  Well. where can I get
> started?
> 
> Currently the only trivial solution is to hack on
> glade sources to use them in my project. (But that
> isn't good way as it is very difficult to keep with
> glade cvs).
> 
> Looking for you answers ....
> 
> =====
> Regards,
> Sridhar R <r_sridhar@users.sf.net>
> http://sridhar.has.it
> 
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