[Glade-users] Widgets in memory...
Tristan Van Berkom
tvb at gnome.org
Mon May 16 11:17:21 EDT 2005
Micah Carrick wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm relatively new to GTK programming. I'm using Glade to generate the
> XML files for use with libGlade to write a Gnome application. My
> question is, should I be using glade for the about, file selection, font
> selection, etc dialogs? Because then aren't they loaded when the
> program starts? Just "invisible". Isn't that a waste of memory for a
> dialog a user may never even see?
That all depends on how you use glade files, you could
pass the "root" argument to glade_xml_new (), that "root"
could be the dialog you want to create (and you can just
destroy it and recreate it using the same process); optionaly
you can also use more than one glade file.
Cheers,
-Tristan
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