[Glade-users] why using libglade is better...

[Damon Chaplin]

On Sun, 2004-10-17 at 22:11, Neil Zanella wrote:
> I currently have an application consisting of somewhere around
> an estimated 4,000 widgets. In the past, I'd break everything down
> in small modules and compile separately to speed up compile time.
> Now, with libglade, there is no compile step for changes in the user
> interface, so long as I do not change the names of my widgets.
> 
> Right?
> 
> So things should be faster and I don't even need to make several
> modules: I can just pack it all in one big XML file without impacting
> development time.
> 
> Right?

libglade is really meant to be used with one window/dialog per file.

Otherwise it wastes memory and processor time on unnecessary windows.

Damon