Re: [Java-gnome-developer] generating code from glade

[Mark H. <mh...@ca...>]

On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 04:29:26PM +0100, Alex Moreno wrote:
> I´ve seen that glade can generate code for diferent languages. Ada,

It is a really horrible way of programming. When you use libglade, you
can easily edit the user interface without having to mess around with
the program source code. If you generate sources, you would then have to
manually merge all your changes into a new set of source files for any
changes you make to the ui. If a tool could do these merges
automatically, this might be good (e.g. Visual Basic style), but that
would be a full RAD tool, not glade. 
Also, for java-gnome, using libglade brings slight performance
advantages. Generation of the ui is all done natively with libglade. If
the same interface was generated from java code, it would require many
jni calls, which are expensive. 

I really look forward to reading your tutorial - it is a vital missing
document in java-gnome at the moment. I hope you will be able to
maintain this document in the future - some ideas I have already for
extra sections include:
 - glade custom widgets (soon to be implemented)
 - localisation with java, glade and gnu gettext (see recent email to
   this list from Bruno Haible)

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