[Glade-devel] Binding independent names

[bighead@users.sourceforge.net]

Oh (correct me if I'm wrong) you mean change names in the UI (like tooltips and
property editor). We could just go for something like

Window for GtkWindow
Checkbox for GtkCheckbox
... and so on and so forth.

Could be done, but then paolo's question comes into the picture.
I someone say puts libeel in glade3, and in there, there is a Checkbox
derivative, what then?

Besides I think most hackers are intelligent enough to realize that
GtkWindow is same as gtk.Window, or Gtk::Window, or Gtk_Window

We are after all, programmers :-)

Conclusion:
Might not be worth the trouble.

Archit

Sridhar R <sridharinfinity@yahoo.com> writes:

> --- 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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