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

10 Text entry

11 Combo box entry

12 Text view

13 Button

14 Toggle button

15 Check button

16 Radio button

17 Combo box

18 Spin button

19 List or tree view

20 Icon view

21 Horizontal separator

22 Vertical separator

23 Image

24 Drawing area

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

26 File chooser dialog

27 Color selection dialog

28 Font selection dialog

29 Horizontal box

30 Vertical box

31 Table

32 Fixed positions

33 Horizontal button box

34 Vertical button box

35 Horizontal panes

36 Vertical panes

37 Notebook

38 Frame

39 Scrolled Window

40 Status bar

List of additionnal widgets

•Standard additionnal widgets

These are the additionnal gtk+ widgets :

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

2 Input dialog

3 Toolbar button with menus

4 Toolbar item

5 Horizontal scale

6 Vertical scale

7 Horizontal ruler

8 Vertical ruler

9 Alignment

10 Event box

11 Calendar

12 Progress bar

13 Layout

14 Aspect frame

15 Arrow

16 Expander

17 Curve

18 Gamma curve

19 Horizontal Scrollbar

20 Vertical Scrollbar

21 File chooser

22 Color selection

23 Font selection

24 Cell view

25 File chooser button

26 Color chooser button

27 Font chooser button

29 Popup menu

30 View port

31 Custom widget

•Deprecated widgets

These widgets are declared depracated but still supported :

1 Columned list

2 Columned tree

3 List

4 Combo box

5 File selection dialog

6 Option menu

7 Preview

•GNOME specific additionnal widgets

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

1 GNOME application window

2 Druid

3 GNOME canvas

4 Icon selection

5 GNOME icon entry

6 GNOME HRef link button

7 GnomeDataEdit

8 GNOME application bar

9 Bonobo control

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

1 GNOME pixmap

2 GNOME dialog box

3 GNOME message box

4 Property dialog box

5 GNOME about dialog

6 Icon list

7 GNOME entry

8 GNOME file entry

9 GNOME pixmap entry

10 GNOME color picker

11 GNOME font picker