Re: GtkBuilder Public API - Last call

[Johan Dahlin <jdahlin async com br>]

Matthias Clasen wrote:
> 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);

Not so nice, really.
And still missing connect_signals() and (maybe) set_translation_domain.

Do we really want this?

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Johan Dahlin <jdahlin async com br>
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