Re(2): [as-devel] 1.9 Wishlist
Andrew Ferguson Andrew_Ferguson@walnut.prs.k12.nj.us
Thu, 16 Mar 2000 15:31:56 -0400
doug@lathi.net writes:
>I know all the noise about not depending on other "big" libraries.
>However, libglade is supremely cool. Basically, you use the glade
>tool to build your gui using a VB type canvas. Glade then saves this
>gui config as an xml file. With C/C++, you app reads in the xml file
>_at runtime_ and builds the gui accordingly! In fact, you can make
>significant changes to the gui without recompiling! It seems like if
>we all think Scripts is a good idea but too hard to use, why not punt
>and try something using Glade as the GUI builder? Then the Scripts
>module could use the xml file instead of the contrived file format it
>has now.
I know about glade and have used it. It really isn't all that hot because
the way GTK builds apps is not intuitive. It is much easier to build the
apps in the C/C++/Perl/etc. code. Glade is also ONLY for GTK, not Xlib
widgets, which Script uses. The idea would be for me to have an easy way
to parse the forms with aslibConfig, and I could then write a special GUI
builder for the Xlib widgets for use in ASCP. Scripts + Forms would not be
so hard any more once the ASCP GUI builder got off the ground.
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