[Java-gnome-developer] Reading Quickly glade files

[Andres A. <aal...@gm...>]

Hello devs!

I'm working on a Gtk plugin for the Griffon framework that relies on
java-gnome to do its thing (great work you guys!).
However attempts to read a glade file that was created by using Ubuntu
Quickly resulted in some manual mangling of the xml before java-gnome was
happy with it. Thought I should share what I did to get it to run

http://www.jroller.com/aalmiray/entry/griffon_the_quickly_connection

Basically I had to follow these steps:

   1. change <interface> to <glade-interface>
   2. comment out <requires lib="gtk+" version="2.16"/>
   3. change all <object> elements to <widget>
   4. remove type="submenu" from every menu widget

Also had to remove an image widget definition as the image filename was
translated (erroneously) as '/tmp/background.png' instead of
'background.png'. Which brings me to the next point I noticed while working
with java-gnome: it expect resources to be defined as files that can be read
from the native side. This hinders the ability to place resources on the
classpath (inside jars for example) and let the library picke them up.

Would it be possible to have the Java wrappers expose Java friendly
InputStream methods? Internally they can read a stream and feed the contents
to a temporal file, then feed the file to the native code; no changes needed
on the gtk side :-) This is actually a 'hack' I put in place on the
griffon-gtk plugin but if won't work while reading glade files.

Cheers,
Andres