[Glade-devel] Use of libglade with languages other than C

[Tristan Van Berkom]

d.mills at tiscali.fr wrote:
[...]

Hi,
     replying publicly so that others may offer their
opinions...

> Thanks for your awnser
> 
>  My idea was to use the base widget (or a similar widget) in the
> editor, so that object references are satisfied, (ie in my
> example, glade
>  should load and introspect GtkEntry) ,to specify the
> differences in 
> the description (so that the developper has acces to design
> time properties)
> , and only substitute the _real_ widget when the application
> is run (ie with glade# 
> in this case). In a nut shell, the glade IDE only really
> works with the similar class (ie 
> GtkEntry) and not the real class (ie ChkEntry), but saves
> the .glade using the real class, 
> which is then loaded by glade# (in my example). In theory
> this should addresse
> your concernes about the loading into the IDE, the big if
> left being how glade# works 
> (mostly mono, or a skin over libglade).

At first sight I don't like this idea, it is definitly possible
to accomplish but it leaves much to be desired in regards
to the added complexity of the glade-3 codebase.

If libglade (or glade#) is cabable of loading objects
written in other languages why cant glade-3 ?

I know that I can dlopen a c++ binary from a C program
and execute the code with no problems, can we do the same
with C# ?

Maybe its still just a matter of writing a glade plugin
library with a C wrapper accessor to a C# library ?
Could mono be used for that ?

Cheers,
                                   -Tristan