[Glade-users] Reading old glade files returns "Couldnt determine project format"

Fri Mar 15 10:12:17 UTC 2013

On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 12:12 PM, jason yap <wahoho.yap at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Tristan.
>
> Thank you for the reply. I really appreciate it.
>
> As much as possible, I don't want to migrate the files to the new version
> because this is a very big system and I
> only need to update a few glade files. Would you know if there is still a
> Glade1 software available around?
> I've tried searching but wasn't able to find anything. Google returns Glade2
> or Glade3 results.

The older unused gnome modules have been migrated to read-only repositories
in 'archives/', the repository you're looking for is here:
   https://git.gnome.org/browse/archive/glade-legacy/

Seems tarballs are even still available here:
   http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/glade/1.1/

I'm assuming that you are still using GTK+ 1.2.x from
10 years ago, if you are using _any_ version of GTK+ 2.x
then you should really be using Glade 3.8 (along with
the newer libglade2).

Cheers,
         -Tristan

>
> Thank you.
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 6:22 PM, Tristan Van Berkom
> <tristanvb at openismus.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, 2013-03-11 at 17:01 +0800, jason yap wrote:
>> > Hello.
>> >
>> >
>> > I am new to glade and I have been experiencing this problem since last
>> > week.
>> >
>>
>> This is not libglade format, this is the original Glade (1) format and
>> is very very outdated.
>>
>> You might try this old conversion script from libglade first:
>>
>>     https://git.gnome.org/browse/libglade/tree/libglade-convert.in
>>
>> And then try opening the results with Glade 3.8...
>>
>> And in Glade 3.8, you'd open the project properties to set
>> the project format to GtkBuilder and "Save As..." another new
>> file.
>>
>> If the project is relatively small, you might want to just re-create
>> the interface with modern Glade... otherwise, your migration path
>> is basically what I outlined above (whatever happens, stay away from
>> the 'gtkbuilder-convert' script, which will create interfaces loadable
>> by GtkBuilder by not understandable by Glade).
>>
>> Cheers,
>>      -Tristan
>>
>>
>> > I have a legacy code (coded around 2001) and I cant seem to open it in
>> > the glade-gtk2 nor in glade.
>> > It is returning "Couldnt determine project format, skipping
>> > <filename>"
>> >
>> >
>> > Im running in Ubuntu Precise 12.04 LTS (64bit)
>> > The libraries that are installed:
>> > glade                 3.12.1-0ubuntu1
>> > glade-gtk2          3.8.0-0ubuntu4
>> > libglade2-0         1:2.6.4-1ubuntu1.1
>> > libglade2-dev      1:2.6.4-1ubuntu1.1
>> > libgladeui-1-11    3.8.0-0ubuntu4
>> > libgladeui-2-0      3.12.1-0ubuntu1
>> > libgladeui-common  3.12.1-0ubuntu1
>> >
>> >
>> > Here is a snippet for an actual GladeXML file from the legacy system
>> > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>> > <GTK-Interface>
>> > <project>
>> >   <name>ZID3</name>
>> >   <program_name>ZID3</program_name>
>> >   <directory></directory>
>> >   <pixmaps_directory>pixmaps</pixmaps_directory>
>> >   <gnome_support>True</gnome_support>
>> > </project>
>> >
>> >
>> > <widget>
>> >   <class>GtkWindow</class>
>> >   <name>ZID3</name>
>> >   <width>523</width>
>> >   <height>120</height>
>> >   <signal>
>> >     <name>map_event</name>
>> >     <handler>map_event</handler>
>> >     <last_modification_time>Fri, 26 Jan 2001 04:22:31
>> > GMT</last_modification_time>
>> >   </signal>
>> >   <signal>
>> >     <name>set_focus</name>
>> >     <handler>set_focus</handler>
>> >     <last_modification_time>Fri, 26 Jan 2001 04:22:42
>> > GMT</last_modification_time>
>> >   </signal>
>> >   <signal>
>> >     <name>delete_event</name>
>> >     <handler>gtk_true</handler>
>> >     <last_modification_time>Mon, 25 Nov 2002 06:01:39
>> > GMT</last_modification_time>
>> >   </signal>
>> >   <title>(ZID3)確認画面</title>
>> >   <type>GTK_WINDOW_DIALOG</type>
>> >   <position>GTK_WIN_POS_CENTER</position>
>> > </widget>
>> > </GTK-Interface>
>> >
>> >
>> > If you need other info, please let me know.
>> >
>> >
>> > Would really appreciate it if someone can help me with my problem.
>> >
>> >
>> > Thank you.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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> Advanced World Systems, Inc
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