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Glade?
by Dan on Thursday 25/Mar/2004, @21:56

Isn't this what libGlade does for GTK? From the webpage:

"Whereas GLADE's output routines create C source code that must be compiled, libglade builds the interface from an XML file (GLADE's save format) at runtime. This can allow modifying the user interface without recompiling."

Read it here: http://www.daa.com.au/~james/software/libglade/

While I'm pretty sure QT doesn't provide that out of the box, obviously we have that power--otherwise Designer wouldn't be able to load it's own data files! And they're an XML format, so there you go. All we have to do to "have the power" as it were, is to refactor Designer's file-loader into a separate library. You know, create like a QWidget subclass called QDesignerUILoader, pass it a QFile pointing to the UI file, and show it. Or something similar, I'm not really a QT developer.

If one of the QT guys would implement this, that would be another bullet point for their widget set. While it takes coders to finish the UI file and make it completely usable, non-coders can take one with the appropriate stuff added and modify it to their heart's content, not unlike having web designers fiddle with templates written in DTML for Zope or Smarty for PHP.

--
Daniel

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Re: Glade?
by Justin Karneges on Thursday 25/Mar/2004, @22:17

You mean QWidgetFactory? Qt's had this for years. :)

http://doc.trolltech.com/3.0/qwidgetfactory.html

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Re: Glade?
by Dan on Friday 26/Mar/2004, @03:42

Oh. Thanks... I'm glad we had this talk. :)

Were you going to tell them?

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