Philippe Bertin wrote:
>Andrea Zagli wrote:
>
>
>
>>use libglade
>>
>>http://www.jamesh.id.au/software/libglade/
>>
>>
>>
>Well, I guess Fernando's intention is to continue to use some glade
>command-line utility/) add-on to continue to use the generated code in
>the compiled program ?
>
>
Why would someone want to go from
glade file --> generated code --> GUI
when you can simply go from
glade file --> GUI
with much less code-generators & generated code to maintain ?
> I'd like to know this too. Because libglade
>forces developers to deliver files which can eventually be changed by
>the user.
>
That is ill-informed - libglade forces no such thing, libglade parses
xml to build your app - whether you store that xml as a glade file
accompanying your app or as an encrypted string constant included
in your compiled program is your own device.
That being said - I think that distributing the glade file seperately is
a cleaner design, as it allows not only users but also developers to update
the UI without recompiling (allowing for some magic at the packaging
level), also - typicly apps are installed by a super-user into a read-only
prefix, generally the glade file - being part of the program's distributed
files is not user writable.
Cheers,
-Tristan
> Which in the end results in something like a user-changeable
>program. A nightmare if you have to give support for such programs ...
>Are there still add-ons to generate code ? I guess there must still be
>such add-ons, maybe even for different programming languages ?
>
>
Such tools do exist, as scripts/programs that parse glade files
and output code.
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