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XDC2012: Programming languages for X application development

Posted Oct 4, 2012 8:49 UTC (Thu) by pabs (subscriber, #43278)
In reply to: XDC2012: Programming languages for X application development by flewellyn
Parent article: XDC2012: Programming languages for X application development

If you are using GTK+, then you want to look at GtkBuilder (and the GUI for creating them is glade).

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Posted Oct 4, 2012 14:04 UTC (Thu) by debacle (subscriber, #7114) [Link]

Yes, Glade is really nice, esp. with Python, but also with C. I used it some time back, before the existence of GtkBuilder, but with the obsolete libglade. For cross platform development (= MS compatibility) I think that wxWindows (and wxPython) are easier to deploy.

XDC2012: Programming languages for X application development

Posted Oct 12, 2012 20:00 UTC (Fri) by oak (subscriber, #2786) [Link]

While Glade is OKish, it forcing the UI creation to happen in the widget hierarchy root -> leaf direction makes the process of creating the UI almost as painful as creating the UI manually and changing of the resulting UI maybe even harder..

Qt GUI design tool has a really nice feature; you can add the basic widgets first and only as last thing drag the containers over their child widgets, in the way that makes the UI most scalable.