"Gideon is a versatile GUI designer for GTK/C++. The goal of the project is to provide an easy-to-use RAD tool for C++ programmers who want to create multi-platform GTK-based GUI applications. Gideon is not overloaded but strives to provide all necessary features and remain 'simple and lightweight' to end user. Gideon is highly productive for experts and accessible for newcomers."
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Member since:2005-06-29
Member since:Why create another GTK GUI Designer? Well first I think a loot of people just can't wait for Glade3 but there are other reasons too. Glade3 doesn't create code anymore; it is now the responsibility of the GTK wrapper to provide an XML -> code converter if they want one. Some projects might just create their own GUI Designer if they have to do that.
Example, Stetic:
MonoDevelop needs a GUI Designer, they need a code generator for C# (and maybe others). Option a) wrap Glade3 and create an XML -> c# program, b) write from scratch a program that creates c# code.
Might as well go with b) and get to do some of the fun stuff to and not just the tedious stuff.
Member since:2005-07-15
>MonoDevelop needs a GUI Designer, they need a code generator for C#
why does they need a code generator? I think code generation is a really bad idea. Also Qt4 has introduce the way to load the xml file into the application.
On c# just type:
Glade.XML gui = new Glade.XML("gladefile.glade", "window");
gui.Autoconnect(this);
and everything is fine.
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2005-07-15
why everyone writes his own GUI Designer? Glade, Static, Gibeon,... all programs for the same task -> creating Gtk-GUIs. Als long as the create all the same xml file there is at least no compatibility problem but i don't understand why everyone wants to write his own designer?
Especially on Gtkmm: I think the most needed feature is not just another GUI-Designer. I think it would be much more important that libglademm would have an autoconnect function. Gtkmm is the only (big) toolkit were i have to connect all my signals by hand. A GUI Designer could be so much more usefull if i could connect the signals directly with the designer like i can do it with Gtk+ or Gtk#.