[Glade-users] VB form converter

[Calum.Benson at Sun.COM (Calum Benson)]

On Sat, 2006-06-24 at 10:37 +0200, Carlos Garces wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I'm a Visual Basic developer with free time and I'm starting to write
> a program to convert VB Forms to .glade files
> (http://glade.gnome.org/)
> I need you opinion
>
> - People need a form converter?
> - It's a good idea? VB forms have fixed positions. Glade can do it,
> but not it's the better way ...

Also, things like spacing and button orders are different between
Windows and GNOME.  I guess, for large projects, a converter might be a
time-saving starting point... but however good the conversion is, I'm
guessing you'd still end up having to tweak most dialogs by hand.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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