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

[Sridhar R]

John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
> The way I see it from a Scaffold point of view.  
> Glade itself can be mostly autonimous at least for 
> the first itegration attempts.  All that is realy 
> needed in an API is the ability to load and save a 
> glade file, and signals to notify when a callback is

> created or renamed.  Also some signals for other 
> property changes might be useful.  Dialogs need to 
> become self contained widgets which seems to have 
> happened from what I read and there needs to be a 
> canvas in order to build the GUI.  

> Right now Glade popus up a dialog or application 
> window where a person can place his or her widgets. 

> This works in a standalone application but in 
> Scaffold it would be nice to have that integrated as

> one of the document tabs.  This is so Scaffold can 
> keep track of what document is being edited.  When 
> the user switches to the glade canvas, the embeded 
> glade dialog tools pop up in Scaffold's layout and 
> then dissapear when another non glade document is 
> selected for editing.

> Future version would allow for the application to 
> expand the UI such as putting a "jump to callback" 
> button where callbacks are defined.  Much of this 
> future work can perhaps integrate with Scaffold's 
> interfaces so as to cut down on the duplication of 
> work.  Glade-3 aims to be a pluggable component and 
> Scaffold aims to be the container for pluggable 
> components.  

> Just a thought.

  Yeah! It would be great if the glade-3 API is like
this.  Hey guys/gals! please do this as more gnome-dev
tools rely on this.  
  Are there any API decisions going on now?

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Regards,
Sridhar R <r_sridhar@users.sf.net>
http://sridhar.has.it

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