[Glade-devel] Binding independent names

[Sridhar R]

--- bighead@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
> Hey
> 
> I don't quite get what you meant by "preference of
> changing names for Widgets,
> depending upon the language binding" ? 

   Ok.  Currently glade3 uses widget names as 
  * GtkWindow
  * GtkHBox
  etc. ...

   This (may) look confusing to a (say) python
developer, since he expect names like,
  * gtk.Window (or) Window
  * gtk.HBox (or) HBox
  instead of the above.

   Hope you get my point better.  What I suggest is to
use a names-mapping table, which contains the names of
all the widgets in different bindings (C, Python,
Ruby, etc..).

   Then the User/IDE can change the preferered way of
naming widgets by just changing the default binding in
"Options" dialog.  Similarly the glade3 IDE API should
also contain a function for switching the binding so
that depending upon the IDE and the language it uses
(Anjuta use C/C++ and <myfutureide> uses Python) it
can change the binding by calling that function.


> Archit
> 
> Sridhar R <sridharinfinity@yahoo.com> writes:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I think glade3 should support the preference of
> > changing names for Widgets, depending upon the
> > language binding.  For example, currently the
> > signal-list dialog list names based on GTK+ C
> library.
> >  But in PyGTK, the names doesn't contain the
> prefix
> > 'gtk'.  Or instead of using GtkWindow, it can say
> > gtk.Window.  
> > 
> > So it all depends upon the binding.  It would be
> > better if glade3 API (API for IDEs), supports
> setting
> > of binding dynamically, so that it reflects the
> name
> > change!
> > 
> > 
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