[contest-discuss] contest-discuss Digest, Vol 3, Issue 7

[Harry Lu]

In Solaris Desktop, we are developing most of the applications using GNOME and GTK+. We are also using glade-2/-3 to develop the GUI.

We have glade-2 in Solaris 10 and early versions of Solaris Nevada. It has the code generation feature, but this feature has many bugs and no one is maintaining it in community. So this feature is dropped in glade-3. Now we are using glade-3 (http://glade.gnome.org/) to develop the GUI. Both glade-2 and glade-3 are based on libglade. Most of the GUI applications are using the generated .glade file by calling libglade. You can see the API doc for libglade at http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/libglade.

We also have some tutorials about glade, http://developer.gnome.org/doc/tutorials/#glade  . But most of the them are for glade-2, I think.

You can also find some useful docs at http://developer.gnome.org/doc/guides/ and http://developer.gnome.org/doc/books/

For your problem with glade-2, I guess it is because glade-2 generated code were working with old versions of autotools (automake, autoconf, etc), but they have problems with new versions of the autotools.

So I suggest you only use glade-2 to develop the GUI, but use libglade to access the generated .glade files.

Harry

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