Re: ANNOUNCE: PonG 0.5 "4 just isn't prime enough"

[Jamin Philip Gray <jgray writeme com>]

This sounds like a really incredible develeopment tool.  I'm
wondering, with the various development tools for the Gnome Project,
is there any plan to integrate them at all?  Either forming an IDE of
some sort or at least having them work together really well?



> 
> A new PonG (v 0.5) is out.  If you wonder what PonG is:
> 
> PonG is a library for creating preference dialogs with a minimum of coding.
> The description of the gconf keys and widgets are written in an XML file that
> is read at runtime and the dialog is created and gconf magic is done.  All
> you have to do on your side is listen for gconf changes.  It also allows the
> preference dialogs to be run from a different program and actually even from
> the command line.  It would also allow a registry editor to run the correct
> preference dialog for some keys.
> 
> The biggest thing in this release is the GUI editor, called pong-edit.  It
> doesn't have the best interface, but it's fully usable (or should be).  It
> will even export schema files for you as well.
> 
> Other then that the interface is stabilizing and I do promise to write some
> docs soon.  But it's not actually that horribly difficult now with pong-edit.
> While still being a development library and shouldn't be used in production
> programs, it should be usable and I'd be interested in some feedback from
> people using it.  The first person to use PonG in his program earns a free
> beer.
> 
> Here's a rundown of the changes:
> 
> 	pong-edit (GUI Editor):
> 		- Basically a rewrite
> 		- Now usable.
> 		- Writes out schema files as well for you, data is stored in
> 		  .pong files
> 
> 	pong (library):
> 		- Change how user levels are specified for widgets
> 		- Revert button
> 		- Slider widget
> 		- Support got all GtkEditable widgets directly
> 		- Support for GtkText directly
> 		- Better gettext support
> 		- Work with latest GConf (Maciej)
> 		- Fixes
> 
> 	pong-bonobo:
> 		- Preliminary IDL
> 
> 	pong-i18-tool
> 	pong-gettext-tool:
> 	pong-tool:
> 		- Fixes
> 
> 	docs:
> 		- Very beginnings of docs
> 
> George
> 
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> George <jirka 5z com>
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