Re: Frustrated again!
- Posted by irv May 19, 2015
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I bought the commercial version of Delphi several years ago, when it was Windows only. Too difficult to use, I thought, even tho I had written a number of commercial programs in Pascal (Turbo, to be exact). The new Delphi commercial version is in the several thousand dollar range, I'll have to pass on that. Even the 'toy' one is $200.
I've also used VisualBasic, maybe 10 years ago. It wouldn't be my choice nowdays - lots of 'foibles' as you mentioned.
As for Glade, You'll have to develop on Linux, as there doesn't seem to be a current version for Windows. Perhaps I'm wrong. Once you've got your program ready to run, it should run on Windows with no problem, since Glade isn't involved at that point.
As for setting it up, I don't recall doing anything but installing it from the Software Manager under the Programming tab. One click, and it's done. Then just open a new file and save it with the .glade extension. Under the File menu there's a Properties item, which lets you specify some things, such as which version of GTK you're aiming for. Mostly, you can ignore this, unless you want to be warned about using new controls that aren't implemented in earlier GTK releases.
There are some instructions included with EuGTK, and several example programs in the /examples/glade folder. Since there seem to be dozens of possible ways to use the combination of Glade and EuGTK, I need to write more documentation. I'll try to do that asap.
