Trying to interface Glade 3.6.7 and 'C' in Ubuntu 10.10
 

Hi, this is my first time here:

I've been programming GUI software in C# in MonoDev for some time now. I just noticed that I can use my favorite language, C, with Glade to do the same thing. I've been going through some tutorials with a little frustration with them. Some seem to be written for older Glade versions.

The latest example had me save my Glade project to a "tutorial.glade" file. Then run it through a 'gtk-builder-convert' utility.

Problem: the utility program returns errors indicating the the tutorial.glade file was written badly, that there is supposed to be a <glade-interface> tag that is missing.

Any ideas???


Glade file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<interface>
<requires lib="gtk+" version="2.16"/>
<!-- interface-naming-policy project-wide -->
<object class="GtkWindow" id="window">
<property name="events">GDK_POINTER_MOTION_MASK | GDK_POINTER_MOTION_HINT_MASK | GDK_STRUCTURE_MASK</property>
<property name="title" translatable="yes">GTK+ Text Editor</property>
<signal name="destroy" handler="on_window_destroy"/>
<child>
<placeholder/>
</child>
</object>
</interface>


C-code:
#include <gtk/gtk.h>

void on_window_destroy (GtkObject *object, gpointer user_data)
{
gtk_main_quit ();
}

int main (int argc, char *argv[])
{
GtkBuilder *builder;
GtkWidget *window;

gtk_init (&argc, &argv);

builder = gtk_builder_new ();
gtk_builder_add_from_file (builder, "tutorial.xml", NULL);
window = GTK_WIDGET (gtk_builder_get_object (builder, "window"));
gtk_builder_connect_signals (builder, NULL);

g_object_unref (G_OBJECT (builder));

gtk_widget_show (window);
gtk_main ();

return 0;
}

Found the problem:
The newest version of Glade, that I have, does not require using the 'gtk-builder-convert' utility. So I was confusing the issue. It works now. Hope no one spent too much time look at it.

Wow, I can write GUI apps in C. Gotta love Linux.

Thanks.