KWWidgets/Projects/UIDesigner/Application/PreviousWork/GladeStudyResults

Glade

Glade is a free user interface builder for GTK+ and GNOME, released under the GNU GPL License.

The user interfaces designed in Glade are saved as XML, and by using the libglade library these can be loaded by applications dynamically as needed. (Glade can also generate C code, though this isn't recommended for large applications.)

By using libglade, Glade XML files can be used in numerous programming languages including C, C++, Java, Perl, Python, C#, Pike, Ruby, Haskell, Objective Caml and Scheme. Adding support for other languages is easy too.

Quote taken from Glade's portal page.

The version used for this study is version 2.12.0, included in the Breezy Badger release of the Ubuntu distribution.

List of basic widgets

These are the basic gtk+ widgets :

Window : A toplevel widget which can contain other widgets. GTK+ reference manual

Menu bar : A drop down menu consisting of a list of menu items used to perform application functions. GTK+ reference manual

Toolbar : Create bars of buttons and other widgets. GTK+ reference manual

Handle box : A bin widget which displays its child and a handle that the user can drag to tear off a separate window (the float window) containing the child widget. GTK+ reference manual

Toolbar with buttons : A specialized toolbar that contains buttons. GTK+ reference manual related topic

Toolbar with toggle buttons : A specialized toolbar that contains toggle buttons. GTK+ reference manual related topic

Toolbar with radio buttons : A specialized toolbar that contains radio buttons. GTK+ reference manual related topic

Toolbar with separator item : A specialized toolbar that contains separators widgets which separates groups of toolbar items. The separator is either vertical or horizontal depending on the theme. GTK+ reference manual related topic

Label : Displays a small amount of text. A label widget may contain mnemonics, which are underlined characters used for keyboard navigation. GTK+ reference manual

Text entry : A single line text entry field. GTK+ reference manual

Combo box entry : A text entry field with a dropdown list. GTK+ reference manual

Text view : A multiline line text entry field. Text is stored in the UTF-8 encoding and might use tags to specify certain attributes, like <bold>. GTK+ reference manual

Button

Toggle button

Check button

Radio button

Combo box

Spin button

List or tree view

Icon view

Horizontal separator

Vertical separator

Image

Drawing area

Dialog : Used to create popup windows. GTK+ reference manual

File chooser dialog

Color selection dialog

Font selection dialog

Horizontal box

Vertical box

Table

Fixed positions

Horizontal button box

Vertical button box

Horizontal panes

Vertical panes

Notebook

Frame

Scrolled Window

Status bar

List of additionnal widgets

•Standard additionnal widgets

These are the additionnal gtk+ widgets :

About dialog : Creates a window to display information about an application. GTK+ reference manual

Input dialog

Toolbar button with menus

Toolbar item

Horizontal scale

Vertical scale

Horizontal ruler

Vertical ruler

Alignment

Event box

Calendar

Progress bar

Layout

Aspect frame

Arrow

Expander

Curve

Gamma curve

Horizontal Scrollbar

Vertical Scrollbar

File chooser

Color selection

Font selection

Cell view

File chooser button

Color chooser button

Font chooser button

Popup menu

View port

Custom widget

•Deprecated widgets

These widgets are declared depracated but still supported :

Columned list

Columned tree

List

Combo box

File selection dialog

Option menu

Preview

•GNOME specific additionnal widgets

With Glade one can create GNOME specific projects. These are the GNOME specific widgets proposed by Glade :

GNOME application window

Druid

GNOME canvas

Icon selection

GNOME icon entry

GNOME HRef link button

GnomeDataEdit

GNOME application bar

Bonobo control

These are the GNOME specific widgets declared deprecated but still supported :

GNOME pixmap

GNOME dialog box

GNOME message box

Property dialog box

GNOME about dialog

Icon list

GNOME entry

GNOME file entry

GNOME pixmap entry

GNOME color picker

GNOME font picker