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Glade |
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A user interface designer for Gtk+ and GNOME |
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Web: http://glade.gnome.org |
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Mailing Lists: glade-users@ximian.com - For discussions about using |
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Glade to build applications. |
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glade-devel@ximian.com - For discussions about the |
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development of Glade itself. |
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General Information |
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Glade is a RAD tool to enable quick & easy development of user interfaces |
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for the Gtk+ toolkit and the GNOME desktop environment. |
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The user interfaces designed in Glade are stored in XML format, |
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enabling easy integration with external tools. |
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In particular libglade can load the XML files and create the interfaces |
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at runtime. The DTD for the XML files is included with libglade, and is |
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also at http://glade.gnome.org/glade-2.0.dtd. |
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Other tools are available which can turn the XML files into source code |
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in languages such as C++, Perl and Python. |
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About Glade-3 |
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This version of Glade (Glade-3) is a complete rewrite of the original Glade codebase. |
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One of the main differences from glade-2 is that C code generation has been removed from |
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glade-3: this has been done on purpose, since using generated code is deprecated; the preferred |
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way to use glade files is with libglade (if code generation is needed, this can be provided |
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as another tool or plugin, code generation is simply not a part of the glade-3 project). |
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Another main difference is that glade-3 was designed to make maximal use of GObject |
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introspection, thus easing the integration of external toolkits and handling widgets, |
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signals and properties genericly; thus making it easier to write fancy features in the |
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future (toolkits such as gtk+ itself, gnome, gnome-db and any others are implemented |
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externaly as widget catalogs with optional support libraries, thus catalogs may be |
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distributed seperatly; possibly along with their libglade support modules). |
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It has a few useful new features such as stacked Undo/Redo and Multiple Project support |
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and respects the same XML format as glade-2. |
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For a more details on what has changed, what still needs work, etc. see |
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the NEWS file & the glade3 product at bugzilla.gnome.org. |
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Comments, bug reports and patches are more than welcome. |
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License |
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Glade is distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL), as described |
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in the COPYING file. |
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Note that you are free to use whatever license you like for the source code |
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generated by Glade. (We do not consider the code generated by Glade to be |
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'a work based on the Program' as described at the start of the GPL.) |
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Requirements |
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o GTK+ 2.10.0 or above - http://www.gtk.org |
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You also need the glib, pango and atk libraries. |
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Make sure you have the devel packages as well, as these will contain the |
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header files which you will need to compile C applications. |
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o libxml 2.4.1 - used to parse the XML files. If you have GNOME 2 you |
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should already have this. |
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Installation |
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See the file 'INSTALL' |
