>>>>> On Sat, 01 Jan 2000 01:12:16 -0600, Christopher Browne
>>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
what are the IDEs which kick out both gtk and qt code? maybe I should
take a stab at each of them.
>> Write the UI with an UI editor, with an UI editor which could kick
>> out both QT and gnome, and then we could have it run on both
>> windows and linux, in either qt or gnome versions.
Christopher> Supposing such a tool existed, this might be an
Christopher> interesting idea.
one of my favorite fantasies includes having a windows user run our
app, and upon startup, they are asked whether or not they want it to
look and act like quicken or mym or gnucash.
Then, that same user gets a better app from the opensource community
for when we need to play catch up with the legacy proprietary UI
creators, as well as faster bug fixes and a more stable, robust app.
Christopher> There *do* exist independent tools for "kicking out" Qt
Christopher> and GTK UI's; they don't interoperate, and since the
Christopher> models are fairly different, it seems not too likely that
Christopher> this will be created.
rats.
Christopher> Of course, most of the GnuCash UI effort, of late, has
Christopher> gone into GTK, which is not a terrible thing in light of
Christopher> the fact that GLADE exists, and seems to work fairly
Christopher> well.
I was wondering if I should start clicking with glade and trying to
duplicate what we already have in our gnucash-gtk UI. Would that be a
waste of time? The part that scares me is the register widget, as I
don't see one of those in glade. :-)
>> And then.... during the first invocation of gnucash (or with
>> command line switches), it would have an opening dialog box with
>> options of "our way", "quicken way", "mym way" or whatever "way"
>> people wanted to code up.
Christopher> This approach would be fairly compatible with the notion
Christopher> of writing up GUIs using Glade, and implementing using
Christopher> libGlade. libGlade reads in the GTK GUI representation
Christopher> in XML form, which means that if you wanted to have
Christopher> several visibly different GUIs, you might create:
will libglade apps run under windows?
Christopher> a) GnuCash-gui.xml
Christopher> b) Quicken-gui.xml
Christopher> c) MyM-gui.xml
Christopher> and load the desired variation in at run time.
Christopher> That does, of course, assume that the GUI was
Christopher> sufficiently separated from the register code that *all*
Christopher> the GUI definition could reside in the XML file, and
Christopher> *all* the register code would reside in GnuCash, The
Christopher> Program.
is it this way now?
Christopher> Dave and/or Rob Browning might be able to provide more
Christopher> guidance as to how realistic *that* sounds.
ahh, I see. I hope that they do, too.
The only reasons I was talking about using qt was because I thought
that QT was the only toolkit which ran under windows and because I was
hoping to stave _that_ whole argument off before it happened, and to
keep the two GUIs in sync with each other in regards to their
capabilities and bugs and whatnot.
(is there a quickfill data type in gtk?)
rob
ps. you might need a new .sig now. :-)
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