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>Just for my understanding, why?
Glade 2.x produces deprecated code (in terms of deprecated GLib/GTK
function calls) but this is not yet a real issue since we also only
depend on GTK 2.8 but it might get interesting when we upgrade minimum
required GTK version later.
oh :-(
Another reason is sometimes it's messy to modify/customize the
generated widgets or use own classes (not that important on Geany as we
don't have much own widget classes but still).
And I'm finding that it is difficult to exploit the repetitiveness within the dialog and the commonality between projects and build dialogs. Although cut & paste can generate the code reasonably efficiently you then need to hand edit it and when fixing bugs you have to repeat it lots of time ... oops I missed one ;-) This in fact is pushing me towards do it yourself.
If I go that way where do you suggest that functions common to build.c and project.c should go, I don't really want to add another file??
And you can't set user_data for callbacks unless you specify something in the object field and then glade uses the connect_swapped so it comes into the callback as the widget not the user_data, messy.
Yet another reason is to modify the generated code, you need to
regenerate it, so you need again Glade, obviously.
This are all not that strong reasons and using Glade isn't anything bad
at all. I just wanted to mention most often it's just easier or not
more complicated to write the GUI manually. But this heavily depends on
the person who writes it and this person's experience with GTK, haha.
To summarise it, just use Glade if you like but there is less need to
glade-ify existing code.
Ok.
Some time in the future when we can use GTK 2.12 we can/will use
GtkBuilder whose XML files can be created with Glade 3 and are read
directly by GTK, so we don't need libglade or generated code (and
there is a conversion tool for glade XML files to GtkBuilder XML files).
But this doesn't matter much for now because we require GTK 2.8 (as
said before).
Yeah, as I understand it this is the way to go. Glade 3.6 supports builder xml directly, no converter needed.
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