From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,LOTS_OF_MONEY, TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,be23df8e7e275d73 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-17 10:51:24 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!out.nntp.be!propagator-dallas!news-in-dallas.newsfeeds.com!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: <0zS27.187213$DG1.31590366@news1.rdc1.mi.home.com> <3B4FEFDE.10E7B423@snafu.de> Subject: Re: An Ada IDE and discussions Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 13:51:16 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 17:51:16 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10080 Date: 2001-07-17T17:51:16+00:00 List-Id: In article , Ted Dennison says... > >In article , Tor Fredrik Aas says... >> >>But is has, GTK has glade for dynamic loadable interface descriptions. A >>underlying XML based format, even has a nice graphical dialog editor ( named >>glade, oddly enough ). > > >When last I looked at it, I thought Glade created files which then got >translated into source code so that they can compiled and linked into the >application (after editing to add in any callback code). That's not even close >to the same thing. While finding the link for someone else, I took the oppertunity to glance at this part of the GTKAda UG. There is indeed a library (libglade) that you can use to parse those files and load the appropriate widgets at runtime. UIL actually has its own compiler to get the parsing out of runtime, but this is pretty close. Its a shame I don't currently have a good excuse for trying it out... --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html home email - mailto:dennison@telepath.com