[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] GUI builder

[From: Karoliina T. Salminen]

ext Tommi Komulainen wrote:

>On Thu, 2005-06-23 at 00:04 +0100, ext Damon Chaplin wrote:
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>>Hi,
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>>I noticed that a GUI builder tool is slated for future releases.
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>>Are you extending glade-2 or glade-3 or starting from scratch?
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>We're extending gazpacho, sorry.  glade-2 couldn't be extended nicely
>(when evaluation started, we weren't certain whether all widgets will be
>open) and development had pretty much shifted to glade-3 anyway, which
>wasn't ready.  Gazpacho seems to have much more momentum, probably
>because it's implemented in higher level language.
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I have been using Glade 2.10.0 for my own stuff, it works as long as
you use standard GTK widgets, but not with hildon widgets.
In other words, drawing the
basic UI layout and generating code for that works even
with Glade. However, I have had to put all hildon widgets in
by hand allthough in my flight planner software's current version, there
is only one hildon widget - the file selector (and adding that
with glade wouldn't have made sense anyway). Doing the hildon
stuff is largely missing from it, but it doesn't prevent to get started
with the UI as it works even in the current form in both Scratchbox
and in the Nokia 770 device. I don't mean that everyone should do
as I do, but that is the way I have chosen to work since the gazpacho was
a bit buggy and unmature for me.

Best Regards,
Karoliina Salminen