[Glade-users] Large Glade XML vs Multiple Small Glade XML

[balakkvj at dcs.shef.ac.uk (BalaKrishna Kolluru)]

2008/10/26 James <proglottis at nothing.co.nz>

> Hey,
> So I've been looking around a few of the projects that use Glade3 and
> have been developing a few small projects myself.
>
> I'm wondering, is it best to have a single large all encompassing glade
> file or many small glade files, say one per dialog. I guess ultimately
> I'm interested in finding out what best practices are for using Glade3
> especially for multiple dialogs.
>
> Currently I'm wrapping each dialog in its own class and using XML
> builder to load the dialog in that class. Such that every dialog class
> creates a new instance of XML builder and loads what it needs from a
> single large XML file. This is obviously going to be less efficient if
> the XML files aren't cached.
>
> I hope no-one has asked this before. I had a quick search of the
> mailing-list archives, but couldn't find anything.
>
> Cheers,
> James
>
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Hi James,
               I think it is a good idea to use multiple files; however, I
feel 1 per widget may incur too many
open--file instructions if one were to navigate quickly between the
different widgets. Thus, it may mean we gain little
by such an approach. I reckon if we uselimited number of widgets per file
and limited size for each file, we may get
a better result. I shall try this idea as well and come back with my
findings on "single large file vs. multiple small files".

B
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BalaKrishna Kolluru
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