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

[d.mills@tiscali.fr]

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

Thanls, I meant to too, sorry.
>
>> 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 ?
Glade# in it's current state (as a thin wrapper arround
libglade)
can't, that said there has been talk of moving
some of it to managed code (in order to take advantage of
resources etc...)
which would resolve the problem in one, and be not (too) 
much work.
>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# ?

The problem is that C# doesn't compile to machine code, but
to CIL 
byte code.

>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 ?

Mabey, I'd have to check. Could explaine how libbeagle works.

David


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