Description

Glade home page describes it as "a RAD tool to enable quick & easy development of user interfaces for the GTK+ toolkit and the GNOME desktop environment, released under the GNU GPL License. The user interfaces designed in Glade are saved as XML, and by using the libglade library these can be loaded by applications dynamically as needed."

An example using this package is detailed in the STklos Wiki

Package API

glade-xml-new

(glade-xml-new fname root domain)

Creates a new GladeXML object (and the corresponding widgets) from the XML file fname.

This function returns the newly created GladeXML object, or #void on failure.

Parameters

  • fname: the XML file name

  • root: the widget node in fname to start building from (or #void)

  • domain: the translation domain to use for this interface (or #void)

glade-xml-get-widget

(glade-xml-get-widget self name)

This function is used to get a pointer to the GtkWidget corresponding to name in the interface description. You would use this if you have to do anything to the widget after loading.

This function returns the widget matching name, or #void if none exists.

Parameters

  • self: the GladeXML object.

  • name: the name of the widget.

glade-xml-signal-autoconnect

(glade-xml-signal-autoconnect self)

This function uses introspection to connect the signals with the handlers specified in the Glade tool.

Parameters

  • self: the GladeXML object.