Re: QtDesigner/Glade

[Richard Dale]

On Monday 14 January 2002 3:05 pm, Helge Hess wrote:
> did anybody consider building GNUstep/MacOSX UI using the GLADE or
> QtDesigner XML files ?
I think the Qt Designer format is too specific to the Qt toolkit to use as a 
AppKit format. For instance, here is a sample extract:

        <widget class="QPushButton" row="3" column="2">
            <property name="name">
                <cstring>editButton</cstring>
            </property>
            <property name="enabled">
                <bool>false</bool>
            </property>
            <property name="sizePolicy">
                <sizepolicy>
                    <hsizetype>0</hsizetype>
                    <vsizetype>0</vsizetype>
                </sizepolicy>
            </property>
            <property name="text">
                <string>&amp;Edit Books</string>
            </property>
        </widget>

It has the name of a Qt widget 'QPushButton', and expects it to have 
properties compatible with other Qt widgets. 

On the other hand, it would be possible to generate Objective-C/Qt code via 
the Qt Designer uic utility for the KDE Qt/Objective-C bindings project, but 
I haven't done that yet. Qt 3 Designer has a plugin api for syntax 
highlighting, which could be used to add Objective-C highlighting.

The .ui file format isn't language independent as it can contain embedded 
snippets of code (always C++ at the moment), which makes it specific to 
whichever language you were using with Qt Designer. And it assumes widgets 
are connected via the Qt slots/signals mechanism, rather than outlets/actions.

-- Richard