Re: Glade is such a pain!

[Ben Pfaff]

Jason Stover <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 08:51:40PM +0900, John Darrington wrote:
>> I have mixed feelings about glade.  I find it useful for visualising
>> how a gui will look, particularly with respect to the packing options
>> of all the various container widgets, which can be almost impossible
>> to get right by setting them in the code.
>
> I agree with this, but I also share Ben's frustration in making the 
> dialog box look correct after the hbox's and vbox's are in place.

About a billion years ago, before I discovered GNU, I used to
build GUI software for Windows (just as a hobbyist thing for my
own personal use, really).  I don't remember the dialog box
builders for Windows being as nasty.  Borland's Resource Workshop
was pretty darned usable, if I recall correctly.
-- 
Ben Pfaff 
http://benpfaff.org