Re: A library API to Glade3 for other programs.
Joaquin Cuenca Abela <[email protected]>
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--- "John (J5) Palmieri" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello > > On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 04:30, Archit Baweja wrote: > > > There are 2 main ways of exposing the glade3's > capabilities > > > > 1) Bonobo || IDL interfaces. Lots of Bonobo/CORBA > overhead involved. Gives us > > the glade3 develops more to do. But we have the > advantage of starting "late" > > on working this without changing much of the code. > With the other option, we > > might just have to start changing from the ground > up. > > > > 2) A simple C library API interface. Not much > overhead. And saves the glade3 > > developers lot of work. Projects wanting to embedd > glade3 can encapsulate > > it by wrapping glade3 API calls in their own > plugin/dock system. > > > > During our discussion on #devel-tools on > irc.gnome.org, we had sort of went in > > favour of option 2. But its the community's call. > > > > As a developer of Scaffold I would like to point out > that we use Bonobo > quite successfully without any noticable slowdowns. I don't think that Archit was thinking on slowdowns when he said "Lots of Bonobo/CORBA overhead involved". It looks to me as if he was speaking of intelectual overhead (but that's up to him to clarify it). FWIW, I don't really care if somebody does a bonobo wraper of glade. Just having a bonobo wrapper doesn't mean that we can't build glade on windows. The bonobo wrapper would of course only be available on the linux build, but that's not a problem. Anyway, I think that you should start trying to use glade-3 on scaffold (even if just copying & pasting the code) and bring the most important issues on current glade-3 to make it usable (I'm expecting changes to report the addition of new callbacks to scaffold, at the very least). It's already discutable the usefulness of having the editor as a component, let alone an alpha quality user interface builder. So, in short, a bonobo wrapper will be nice, but if you want it right now, you will have to do it yourself :) Cheers, ===== Joaquin Cuenca Abela e98cuenc at yahoo dot com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Glade-devel maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/glade-devel