Re: [Gretl-devel] Glade?
On Mon, 18 Sep 2017, Sven Schreiber wrote:
I stumbled across Glade (https://glade.gnome.org/), and especially
the
statement "interfaces designed in Glade are saved as XML, and by using the
GtkBuilder GTK+ object these can be loaded by applications dynamically".
Could this be usable in gretl development as well? What I mean is for example
that ideas about new windows could be communicated with such files created
with Glade. (But have never used it so far.)
Or perhaps even as a future part of function packages to specify their own
windows?
Dreams, dreams,....
That's a very interesting idea, and I think it could probably be
made to work in gretl. I last experimented with glade many years ago
and didn't find it very useful for my own purposes, but for function
packages I guess it would be worth exploring.
(Roughly speaking, glade is a "GUI for designing GUIs" that can
output a GUI specification in an XML form that GTK is able to
implement "automatically", bypassing the requirement for explicitly
coding the interface in C. My understanding is that it works more
reliably for GTK 2 -- which we use in our Windows and Mac packages
-- than for GTK 3, but maybe we can handle both variants.)
Allin