Re: help building ada with glade

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

Le 24/02/2012 09:39, Dmitry A. Kazakov a �crit :
> I doubt that code generated by GLADE illustrates issues essential for
> dealing with GTK: objects (GObject), values (GValue), signals, containers
> (packing), MVC (in trees, combos, text buffers).
Exactly. Glade protects me from all that complicated mess. If I want an
action on button pressed, I select the action in Glade, and I just have
to fill the body of a subprogram named On_Key_Pressed. You may argue
that I don't learn the intrinsics of Gtk this way, fine, but I prefer
not to have to.

> I don't believe that a GUI project can be assisted with GLADE, which
> presumes its ability to incorporate user made modifications of the
> generated code. GTK is simply unsuitable for this. It is too low level, too
> messy. It lacks any means to separate the UI from the semantics. Ergo, no
> need to look into any generator (I admit, I don't know GLADE well), none
> can be good for GTK.
> 
Please use it first. A nice thing with Glade is precisely that the
semantics is well separated from all the glue, and (on Linux at least)
it is able to make round-trip engineering (i.e. : if you add stuff to
what has been generated, it is not lost the next time you regenerate
your interface).

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