I'm wondering if there are any examples online somewhere on how to code XML
describing the GUI objects in an gtkmm program, similar to the way that
WPF/XAML with C#.
C#/WPF example:
<Grid>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="2*" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="1*" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="1*" />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="2*" />
<RowDefinition Height="1*" />
<RowDefinition Height="1*" />
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Button>Button 1</Button>
<Button Grid.Column="1">Button 2</Button>
<Button Grid.Column="2">Button 3</Button>
<Button Grid.Row="1">Button 4</Button>
<Button Grid.Column="1" Grid.Row="1">Button 5</Button>
<Button Grid.Column="2" Grid.Row="1">Button 6</Button>
<Button Grid.Row="2">Button 7</Button>
<Button Grid.Column="1" Grid.Row="2">Button 8</Button>
<Button Grid.Column="2" Grid.Row="2">Button 9</Button>
</Grid>
I really like the way you can just code WPF XAML in C# without needing the
GUI tool to draw the gui similar to a gnome "glade tool" tool... really
wish gtkmm would specific an XML language for specifying the instantiation
of gtkmm GUI objects without the need of glade, I'm think the way that
Adobe Dreamweaver works, and the way SharpDeveloper works, you get an HTML
or XAML code window and you can directly code the XML code describing your
gui and then switch back and forth bewteen preview and XML code to see how
your GUI is rendering... I find this way of developing GUI's workers really
well,it makes your code inherently easier to maintain because its similar
to HTML...Really wish glade and GTKMM would get together and clone this
aspect of C#/WPF in a way similar to SharpDeveloper.
The problem I have with all these GUI automation tools like glade, etc...
is that they are all based on the old winforms model ofdragging and
dropping everything with a graphical tool with X,Y coordinates... which I
think just is messy and makes your code turn into spagetti...epecially the
old win32/winforms approach in C#.... I think glade and gtkmm needs to
move beyond that and adopt a SharpDeveloper/WPF/C#/XAML approach to
defining the GUI.
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