Re: Programmatically build UI's considered harmful...

On Thu, 2002-08-22 at 01:10, Colin Marquardt wrote:
> Moray Allan <moray@sermisy.org> writes:
>
> > If someone's interested and has time, it would be useful to start
> > putting together some GPE guidelines on how we should be using libglade
> > - there are presumably other documents to link to which describe the
> > underlying mechanisms, but it would be nice if we could find the 'right'
> > way to deal with e.g. changing interface orientation on rotation (if
> > there are any cases when the same interface just won't fit both ways).
appmgr listens for the "size-allocate" signal on the main window. It
then compares the previous and current window widths; if they are
different, it recreates the UI (ie. so it can show 4 columns in
landscape mode).

> I plan to do a gpe-helloworld app soon, showing GPE specific
> things. I guess that should use Glade, and show the points you
> mention.
Sounds cool!

> Cheers,
> Colin
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