[Glade-devel] Glade-devel Digest, Vol 34, Issue 1

[Kunal Singh]

Hi Archit/Tristan,

    Thanks for the information.
   
    The link which Tristan has sent is very helpful.

Regards,
Kunal
www.singhkunal.com

> Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:38:15 -0300
> From: "Tristan Van Berkom" <tristan.van.berkom at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Glade-devel] enhancing glade for non-GTK tool-kits
> To: "Archit Baweja" <architbaweja at gmail.com>
> Cc: kunal at singhkunal.com, glade-devel at ximian.com
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> On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Archit Baweja <architbaweja at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Hey Kunal,
>>
>>  Yes it is definitely possible to take a UI designed in Glade and use
>>  it in a Qt program. This is because Glade spits out a XML file
>>  describing the UI. And then there is libglade that reads the .glade
>>  XML file and creates the UI by making calls to the Gtk+ library.  So
>>  its definitely possible to write a libglade for Qt which reads in
>>  .glade files and creates a corresponding Qt interface.
>>
>>  I don't know if anyone's written a libglade for Qt, but its definitely
>>  possible. One problem I see happening is that different UI systems
>>  take slightly different approaches to layout mechanisms.
>>     
>
> The output of Glade is xml, but it is serialized GObjects basically,
> how well that
> scales to QT I dont know, Im quite sure QT uses different container objects, but
> something could be written I suppose, but in the end it will be black
> magick trickery,
> nothing as optimal as using an interface designer intended for the
> targetted toolkit.
>
> Consider that the different toolkits have different objects to
> represent that work in
> different ways, spitting out a QT targetted xml file from glade would
> be like a whole
> other project inside Glade, in other words I see no reason to not just
> do it in QT
> designer if you want a QT interface.
>
> Cheers,
>                   -Tristan
>
> BTW: I started hacking on Glade from an embedded standpoint, the whole point
> of me taking up the Glade 3 project in the state it was in years ago,
> was to be able
> to modularly integrate our custom gtk+ widget kit into Glade, Glade was intended
> for this, so I sincerely hope to see people start integrating their
> catalogs into glade
> and experience the power we've been working to provide for you.
>
> Note that in recent days when I went ahead and ploughed through
> GtkBuilder support
> for glade, I completely rewrote and updated the documentation
> concerning integrating
> your widgets into Glade. The updated docs for Glade trunk can be found here:
> http://glade.gnome.org/docs/index.html
>
>