Re: Glade C code a bad thing? (was: root windows)

2005-06-02 Thread Gus Koppel
Freddie Unpenstein wrote: You're going backwards here... Having the code generation part of Glade limits you to what the Glade developers have done, and how good they are at doing it. Having the code generation seperate, allows someone else to take over that burdon, who could potentially be

Re: Glade C code a bad thing? (was: root windows)

2005-06-02 Thread Olexiy Avramchenko
Gus Koppel wrote: I only saw messages from people claiming that it's (pretty) easy to do. I haven't seen anyone picking it up or actually planning to do so. That's easy. Why ? Because it was done once. Look at glade and reuse the code or ideas. Why dont I, personally, do this ? Because the

Re: Glade C code a bad thing? (was: root windows)

2005-06-02 Thread Gus Koppel
Olexiy Avramchenko wrote: If the idea about general tool for XML - C translation, sounds good for you - start development. I think all interested people will help you. I don't think so. The idea about a general XML -- C translation tool doesn't sound good to me and I won't start development

Re: Glade C code a bad thing? (was: root windows)

2005-06-01 Thread Zeeshan Ali
Hello guys, I think Gus forgot to CC his email to the list, so i am forwarding it here. -- Forwarded message -- From: Gus Koppel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Jun 1, 2005 9:40 AM Subject: Re: Glade C code a bad thing? (was: root windows) To: Zeeshan Ali [EMAIL PROTECTED] Zeeshan

Re: Glade C code a bad thing? (was: root windows)

2005-06-01 Thread Freddie Unpenstein
Answers to comments from several people here... No particular order. The freedom of designing a GUI without using a GUI while doing so? What else? Writing C programs without using a C compiler during development? What, you saying you can't? I've built some moderately complicated 3D models

Re: Glade C code a bad thing? (was: root windows)

2005-05-31 Thread Muthiah Annamalai
Hello Everyone! G'day all. I would support the inclusion of Code generation in GLADE UI Editor. It is a welcome feature, for those who would like it. If its not to be in the main tree atleast put the code into a plugin thats enabled at default, and users can turn it off, if they prefer. I

Re: Glade C code a bad thing? (was: root windows)

2005-05-31 Thread Hubert Sokolowski
Hi! Hello Everyone! G'day all. I would support the inclusion of Code generation in GLADE UI Editor. It is a welcome feature, for those who would like it. If its not to be in the main tree atleast put the code into a plugin thats enabled at default, and users can turn it off, if they

Re: Glade C code a bad thing? (was: root windows)

2005-05-31 Thread Freddie Unpenstein
I would support the inclusion of Code generation in GLADE UI Editor. It is a welcome feature, for those who would like it. If its not to be in the main tree atleast put the code into a plugin thats enabled at default, and users can turn it off, if they prefer. Personally, I don't think code

Re: Glade C code a bad thing? (was: root windows)

2005-05-31 Thread Olexiy Avramchenko
Freddie Unpenstein wrote: That doesn't mean generated code shouldn't be available for those who consider it the best solution to their particular needs. Write a utility that reads in .glade files and outputs code. Call it from your Makefile to ensure the source files are kept up to date,

Re: Glade C code a bad thing? (was: root windows)

2005-05-31 Thread Yevgen Muntyan
Olexiy Avramchenko wrote: Freddie Unpenstein wrote: That doesn't mean generated code shouldn't be available for those who consider it the best solution to their particular needs. Write a utility that reads in .glade files and outputs code. Call it from your Makefile to ensure the source

Re: Glade C code a bad thing? (was: root windows)

2005-05-31 Thread John Coppens
On Tue, 31 May 2005 10:30:37 +0200 (CEST) Hubert Sokolowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I request that code generation not be removed from Glade project. Me too!!! Me too... I was convinced that Linux was about freedom of choice? If code designers start limiting the choice of users, next

Re: Glade C code a bad thing? (was: root windows)

2005-05-31 Thread Gus Koppel
Olexiy Avramchenko wrote: Freddie Unpenstein wrote: That doesn't mean generated code shouldn't be available for those who consider it the best solution to their particular needs. Write a utility that reads in .glade files and outputs code. Call it from your Makefile to ensure the

Re: Glade C code a bad thing? (was: root windows)

2005-05-31 Thread Zeeshan Ali
Hello everyone, I strongly agree with the opinion that source-code generation should be removed from glade itself. OTOH I very strongly advice the glade developers to write a nice command-line utility to convert a glade file to it's equivalent source code in C/C++, before they drop this

Re: Glade C code a bad thing? (was: root windows)

2005-05-30 Thread Gus Koppel
Maciej Katafiasz wrote: Unless by build of glade you mean autogenerated C code, which is bad, bad, bad thing to use. Use libglade, really. why it is bad? I use it and it works just fine and I don't have glade dependiencies. Because it makes it impossible to later rework UI without