Re: GtkAda using Glade

["J-P. Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr>]

Le 19/05/2011 09:36, Dmitry A. Kazakov a �crit :
> That's the point. If the GUI logic could be separated from the program
> logic, which is a Holy Grail, but absolutely unrealistic, then it would be
> no matter in which language the stuff was generated, Ada or C. You would
> not never look at it.
> 
> Unfortunately the reality is that the GUI and the functional part of the
> program are tightly interwoven. Therefore you need to be in full control of
> both and want to shape the program's structure as you want for the sake of
> clear design and maintainability (Ada's strengths). Any automatically
> generated code is just an obstacle here.
> 
> Sorry for sounding daemon's voice again. (:-))
> 
I think you should really give Glade a try (I think you said you
didn't). Creating the various widgets (with appropriate parameters!),
stuffing them into containers, connecting call-backs constitute a really
boring (and error-prone) part of the development. That's what Glade does
for you.

In the end, you get your interface built, and a bunch of empty
procedures that you have to fill to do anything useful. These are nicely
separated, therefore you know precisely the parts that you need to fix,
and those that are generated (although looking at what is generated is
quite instructive, of course).
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