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

[Paolo Borelli]

On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 18:23, Vomberg István wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> You wrote in the HTML attachment:
> 
> <i>About Glade-3
> Glade-3 is the developement version of Glade. 
> 
> For the end user the most noticeable differences are: 
>       * Undo/Redo support in all the operations 
>       * Open multiple projects at same time 
>       * Removal of code generation
> With regard to the last item, note that code generation has been
> deprecated for a long time: the preferred solution is using libglade.
> If you want to use code generation at any cost, the way to go is using
> an external tool to process the .glade file and output code in your
> language of choice.
> The format of the .glade file is the same of Glade-2. </i>
> 
> ----------------------
> 
> Is that means, the main difference in Glade2 and Glade3 will be the
> absence of the generated interface.c file? The callbacks.c will be
> generated, but the work of interface.c will be done by the libglade?
> 


I would not say that it is the *main* difference (it's a rewrite after
all! ;-), but for the casual end user that used to rely on code
generation is one of the noticeable changes.

Note however that generating code is a _bad_ idea also with the current
glade-2 and it is strongly discouraged.
As a matter of fact the lack of code generation has nothing to do with
glade.3 per se; simply when glade-3 was being designed everybody agreed
that was such a bad idea that it was better leave it out from the start.

For example see this discussion:
http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/glade-devel/2003-February/000015.html


>From your question I think to understand that you are not very familiar
with libglade. I suggest that you take a closer look to it and probably
use it in your own application.

Using libglade there is no need to generate any .c file. Glade-3 simply
creates the xml file ( .glade ).

It's up to the user load it where it fits best in his application, and
in whichever programming language he prefers.


ciao
	paolo