news 28 Posted January 6, 2011 ... And so it was, that yet another GNOME module updated itself to build against the mighty forces of GTK+ 3.0 ... and they lived happily ever ... That's right folks, Glade for GTK+ 3.0 is here... this is the first development release leading up to Glade 3.10 which will run against GTK+ 3.0, currently this software builds and runs against the latest GTK+ git master. Few things I need/would like to mention for this release: Plans: ----- Let it be known that we plan to release a stable Glade 3.8 and a stable Glade 3.10 in parallel for GNOME 3. Glade 3.8: Will include all support Glade has always included for GTK+ up till version 2.24. Glade 3.10: Will include support only for widgets that are still included in GTK+ 3.0 and additionally drops support for Libglade. They will of course be parallel installable, Glade 3.8 in the long term will hopefully serve as a decent migration path for older projects migrating to 3.0. Thanks: ------ Thanks to all the contributors that helped to make this possible. - Johannes Schmid - Marco Diego Aurélio Mesquita - Juan Pablo Ugarte - Matthias Clasen - Javier Jardón - Martin Schlemmer - Daniel Macks - Benjamin Otte - Christian Persch - Dieter Verfaillie And thanks to Openismus GmbH who has sponsored this release of Glade in a really big way. What is Glade? ============ Glade is a RAD tool to enable quick & easy development of user interfaces for the GTK+ toolkit and the GNOME desktop environment. The user interfaces designed in Glade are saved as XML, and by using the GtkBuilder GTK+ object these can be loaded by applications dynamically as needed. By using GtkBuilder, Glade XML files can be used in numerous programming languages including C, C++, C#, Vala, Java, Perl, Python, and others. =========== Glade 3.9.0 =========== - General build fixes for building with GTK+ 3.0, including patches from Johannes Schmid, Matthias Clasen, Javier Jardón and Juan Pablo Ugarte. - Included the new Preview feature by Marco Diego Aurélio Mesquita. - Various leaks and crashes fixed. - GladeWidget becomes GInitiallyUnowned, refcounting improved for project dispose cycles. - Handle combo-box entry child properly (bug 581580). - Fixed crashes when textview's buffer is deleted, fix by Martin Schlemmer, bug 609748. - Restored property order of project objects at save time (glade files no longer container irrelevant diffs). - Hide editor properties when the property is not available on the widget, bug 585299, fix by Marco Diego Aurélio Mesquita. - Fixed makefiles as per bug 521713 (patch initially by Daniel Macks). - Fixed mixups of properties vs packing properties (bug 637475). - Fixed class header of GladeEditor to update when widgets unload (patch by Marco Diego Aurélio Mesquita, bug 637541). - Fixed particalarly nasty crasher bug when loading/saving treestore column definitions, special thanks goes to Benjamin Otte, bug 637563. - Add progress bar to notebook tab of currently loading project (now the whole UI doesnt jam up while loading a big project). - Fixed notebook tab style to use the new CSS stuff. - Removed widgets that are not available in 3.0 - Completely removed Libglade support - Removed GladeClipBoardView completely - Removed GladeParameter obsolete code - Fixed editor labels to use natural word wrapping - Drop GtkTables in editors in favor of GtkGrid - Added custom editor for editing GtkActionGroup and managing child actions - Ran 'indent' on source base, new Glade coding style more similar to GTK+ style - Removed boolean "fixed" catalog attribute, instead can be used to specify a derived GladeWidget to be used in the runtime. - Use locale-independent strtod & dtostr. Fixes bug 616787, fix by Christian Persch. - Applying patch to allow better builds on win32, patch by Dieter Verfaillie, bug 634978. - Fixed loaded state of use-action-appearance so that it always loads as FALSE if there is no "related-action" at load time (closes bug 582882). - Sealed entire core API, libgladeui-2 will be ABI stable after 3.10 release. - Removed GladeApp::update-ui signal, active-project, selection handling and implied commands, everything now must be done in context of a GladeProject. - Optimized GladeEditor to load a widget faster by keeping all the cached pages in internal vboxes and not remove/adding them but just hide/showing them (improves object selection time). - Optimized frontend to load one palette per project, verifying the palette for version information when the related project is set costs around 1 second, this is now only experienced when the target version is changed in the project prefs dialog. Where can I get it ? ================ http://download.gnome.org/sources/glade/3.9/ For more information on the Glade project see our home page at http://glade.gnome.org/ Enjoy, -Tristan _______________________________________________ Share this post Link to post
