[Glade-users] build source or use libglade?

[calum benson sun com (Calum Benson)]

On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 19:01, Carl B. Constantine wrote:

> The question I have is why is this? You use glade to generate your UI
> and then click: Build to build all the source for the UI so your .glade
> file isn't required anymore. So why make external calls to use libglade
> in your application vs. just build source? I can see if you use Perl-GTK
> or pyGtk, etc but I don't see it for a C application.

Well, one nice advantage is that when the XML file is only loaded at
runtime, you can experiment with the layout of your GUI without having
to recompile anything.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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