I have some experience with using glade/libglade to program UIs (gtk builder should be the same or better), so I wanted to chime in even if I'm a few days late on it. On Sat, 2010-01-09 at 11:21 +0100, peter sikking wrote: [...] > however, > > let it be really clear that I will _not_ entertain the following > excuses in the future: IMO there's no need for that: > "your UI design cannot be build with the builder/declarative way." > > "that layout can only be start-up/compile time static, because of > the builder/declarative way." In the program, you can do the same things with a widget from gtk builder as you can with a manually coded widget. From the POV of the programmer in the application, there's no difference once a widget object exists. Dynamic interaction in widgets needs to be programmed in the application (as usual). > "that custom widget cannot be used with the the builder/declarative > way." AIUI, you can make custom widgets known to gtk builder and use it like normal gtk/gnome widgets. > "theoretically we could write some code for that special interaction, > but then we could not maintain it in the the builder/declarative way." "Special interaction" would need special code anyway. As gtk builder is for taking care mainly of the "view" side of things (read: arrange widgets in a UI instead of with code), and only partly for the "controller" (map signals to callbacks), this doesn't hurt really. Again, you can do anything with these widgets that you can do with traditionally coded ones. You can still connect signals to callbacks in the code (you don't have to do it in glade), you still need to code your own callbacks. > "yes that looks shit on platform xyz but we cannot do anything about > it through the builder/declarative way." I can't imagine why something looking shit would be due to the use of glade/gtk builder. Maybe I'm a bit unimaginative ;-). Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Wilhelmstraße 22 / D-71229 Leonberg nils@xxxxxxxxx / nils@xxxxxxxxxx PGP fingerprint: C4A8 9474 5C4C ADE3 2B8F 656D 47D8 9B65 6951 3011 Ever noticed that common sense isn't really all that common? _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
