Re: GtkBuilder Public API - Last call

["Matthias Clasen" <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On 6/12/07, Johan Dahlin <jdahlin async com br> wrote:
> Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > Is the Hello, World simplest use case as short and simple as it possibly
> > could be? That's always a handy final litmus test for an API.
>
> How do you do an hello world in a ui toolkit?
> Should it include signals? How many widgets?
>
> > From the header it looks like the simplest hello, world would have to
> > builder_new, add_from_file, connect_signals, get_object at minimum?
> > Maybe there's a convenience function or two that makes sense?
>
> builder_new + add_from_file could be combined into one constructor,
> I've been thinking about that, which would make it easier to
> port applications using libglade which has such an api.

You could combine it with get_object too, to arrive at

GObject *
gtk_builder_load_object_from_file (const gchar *filename,
                                                     const gchar *name);