http://www.osnews.com/story/14658/Gideon_Designer_Will_Support_Not_Only_C_ Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:23:43 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?126505 http://osnews.com/thread?126505 I hope this catches on better than Microsoft's attempt. XML-based GUI builders could prove to be useful for cross-platform software development as well as more than one programming language. Sat, 20 May 2006 22:28:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (SamuraiCrow) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?126507 http://osnews.com/thread?126507 What advantages does this have over Glade? Sat, 20 May 2006 22:30:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (mallard) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?126508 http://osnews.com/thread?126508 I think this is intended to be an enhanced sequel to Glade for GTK+ and a replacement for the underdeveloped wxGlade for Python users. Sat, 20 May 2006 22:34:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (SamuraiCrow) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?126526 http://osnews.com/thread?126526 I have been using Glade but I think I'll give this a try, especially since they decided to support more than just C++. Sat, 20 May 2006 23:26:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (abraxas) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?126527 http://osnews.com/thread?126527 libglade will be intergrated to GTK. And this is because it's a defacto standard, already wrapped for tons of languages and Glade2 works great too.

If you want just a better UI then you can use Glade3 or Gazpacho. Sat, 20 May 2006 23:29:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (zeppelin) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?126611 http://osnews.com/thread?126611 I think this is intended to be an enhanced sequel to Glade for GTK+ and a replacement for the underdeveloped wxGlade for Python users.

Sorry, you're misinformed. glade doesn't generate python code, but it's still perfectly usable using libglade's python bindings. wxGlade is a totally independent project, using wxWidgets instead of GTK; what do you mean by underdeveloped? Sun, 21 May 2006 08:50:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jjezabek) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?126618 http://osnews.com/thread?126618 >libglade will be intergrated to GTK.
>And this is because it's a defacto standard,
>already wrapped for tons of languages
>and Glade2 works great too.

Are they better only because they support "standard" GladeXML? As said in Gideon FAQ, "standard" was discarded in order to implement new features: GuiXml is actually an advantage.

Gideon project was started because many programmers - including Gideon developer(s) - want a GUI builder for GTK+ that plays on a par with Qt Designer or those found in Borland JBuilder and MS Visual C# IDE's. Not an easy task counting the lack of FOSS manpower. Instead of a brute-force approach, Gideon tries to innovate and does this in its save format also.

Gideon even goes further in some respects. For example, Multiple Edits - this is when you can select more than one widget and have a Property Explorer with a list of matching properties. It is possible to edit those properties for several widgets at once. Qt designer does not support this feature. And one Gideon feature AFAIK has no analogues in the industry: a support for nested objects and arrays in Property Explorer.

I am Gideon developer and I believe that it is a very exciting project, being completely FOSS, innovative and without a commercial back-end.

/Maxim Sun, 21 May 2006 09:38:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Maxim Udushlivy) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?126709 http://osnews.com/thread?126709 wxGlade is a totally independent project, using wxWidgets instead of GTK; what do you mean by underdeveloped?

I mean that it hasn't reached version 1.0 yet compared to standard Glade that is already in its third major release. Sun, 21 May 2006 20:32:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (SamuraiCrow) Comments