Editing Glade Interface Designer

{{Short description|Graphical user interface builder}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}}

{{Infobox software
| name = Glade Interface Designer
| title = Glade
| logo = Glade 3 logo.svg
| logo caption = 
| screenshot = Glade Interface Designer 3.22.0.png
| caption = Designing a preferences dialog in Glade
| collapsible = 
| author = Damon Chaplin<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7421 | title=Rapid Application Development with Python and Glade] | date=1 July 2004 | first=David | last=Reed | work=Linux Journal | quote=Damon Chaplin wrote the Glade program}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.fifi.org/doc/glade-common/help/glade/C/faq/index.html | title=Glade FAQ version 1.0 | year=2000 | first=Damon | last=Chaplin}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | url=http://oreilly.com/catalog/runux3/chapter/appb.html | title=Running Linux | edition=3rd | first1=Matt | last1=Welsh | first2=Matthias | last2=Kalle Dalheimer | first3=Lar | last3=Kaufman | date=August 1999}} Appendix B The GNOME Project > B.5.3 Programming Tools > ..."Of particular interest is Damon Chaplin's Glade..."</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gnomejournal.org/article/50/glade-3-sees-the-light-of-day |title=Damon Chaplin (author of the original Glade tool) |access-date=2013-02-18 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061103153407/http://www.gnomejournal.org/article/50/glade-3-sees-the-light-of-day |archive-date=3 November 2006}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://glade.pn.org/ |title=Historical Glade website |access-date=2013-02-18 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19990423044329/http://glade.pn.org/ |archive-date=23 April 1999}}</ref>
| developer = [[The GNOME Project]]
| released = {{Start date and age|1998|04|18|df=yes/no}}<ref name=history1998>{{cite web |url=http://glade.pn.org/history.html |title=GLADE GTK+ User Interface Builder > History > The first release, Version 0.1, was on 18. Apr 1998 |access-date=2013-02-18 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19991008021612/http://glade.pn.org/history.html |archive-date=8 October 1999}}</ref>
| discontinued = yes
| latest release version = 3.40
| latest release date = {{Start date and age|2022|08|10|df=yes}}
| latest preview version = 
| latest preview date = <!-- {{Start date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|df=yes/no}} -->
| programming language = [[C (programming language)|C]], [[XML]]
| operating system = [[Unix-like]], [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://git.gnome.org/browse/glade/tree/build/mswindows/README|title = Files · master · GNOME / Glade}}</ref>
| platform = <!--Exactly which?-->
| size = 
| language = <!--Exactly which?-->
| language count = <!-- DO NOT include this parameter unless you know what it does -->
| language footnote = 
| genre = {{ubl|[[Graphical user interface builder|GUI builder]]|[[Linux on the desktop]]|[[Human interface guidelines]]}}
| license = [[GNU General Public License]]
| replaced_by = Cambalache Interface Designer
}}

'''Glade Interface Designer''' is a [[graphical user interface builder]] for [[GTK]], with additional components for [[GNOME]]. In its third version, Glade is [[programming language]]&ndash;independent, and does not produce code for events, but rather an [[XML]] file that is then used with an appropriate binding (such as GtkAda for use with the [[Ada (programming language)|Ada]] programming language). 

Glade is [[free and open-source software]] distributed under the [[GNU General Public License]]. Glade's development and maintenance ceased in 2022, with the final release on 10 August 2022.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-08-10 |title=Rolling last release! (b3823efd) · Commits · GNOME / Glade · GitLab |url=https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glade/-/commit/b3823efd0acea2b0a5629b261cf56b1d3f2664aa |access-date=2024-10-09 |website=GitLab |language=en}}</ref>

==History and development==
The first Glade release, version 0.1, was made on 18 April 1998.<ref name=history1998 />

Glade 3 was released on 12 August 2006. According to the Glade Web site, the most noticeable differences for the end-user are:
* [[Undo]] and redo support in all operations.
* Support for multiple open projects.
* Removal of code generation.
* Contextual help system with [[Devhelp]]

Most of the difference is in the internals. Glade-3 is a complete rewrite, in order to take advantage of the new features of GTK+ 2 and the [[GObject]] system (Glade-3 was started when Glade-1 hadn't yet been ported to GTK+ 2). Therefore, the Glade-3 codebase is smaller and allows new interesting things, including:
* Catalogs of "pluggable" widgets. This means that external libraries can provide their set of widgets at runtime and Glade will detect them. In fact, Glade 3 supports only standard GTK widgets; GNOME UI and DB widgets are provided separately.
* The various Glade Tools (palette, editor, etc.) are implemented as widgets. This allows for easier integration in {{abbr|IDEs|Integrated development environment}} like [[Anjuta]], and makes it easier to change the Glade UI.

On 5 April 2011, two parallel installable stable Glade versions<ref>{{cite web |url=http://lists.ximian.com/pipermail/glade-devel/2011-April/001891.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606214843/http://lists.ximian.com/pipermail/glade-devel/2011-April/001891.html |archive-date=6 June 2011 |title=[Glade-devel] Glade 3.10.0 Released}}</ref><ref>[http://glade.gnome.org/news.html Glade 3.8.0 and 3.10.0 released], Tuesday 5 April 2011 by Tristan Van Berkom – Glade 3.8.0 and 3.10.0 are now available for download. 3.8 is the last stable series of Glade for GTK+2 and 3.10 is the first stable series for GTK+3</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://lists.ximian.com/pipermail/glade-devel/2011-January/001858.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110112181550/http://lists.ximian.com/pipermail/glade-devel/2011-January/001858.html |archive-date=12 January 2011 |title=[Glade-devel] Glade 3.9.0 Released}}</ref> were released:
* Glade 3.8: That includes all support for GTK+ up till version 2.24. This version is to serve as a decent migration path for older projects migrating to GTK+ 3.0.
* Glade 3.10: That includes support only for widgets that are still included in GTK+ 3.0 and additionally drops support for Libglade.

On 11 June 2015 Glade 3.19.0 was released. It depends at least on GTK+ 3.16.0. Among many bug fixes this version is the first to support the widgets GtkStack, GtkHeaderBar and GtkSidebar.<ref name=glade319release>{{cite web|title=Glade 3.19.0 Released!|url=http://lists.ximian.com/pipermail/glade-devel/2015-June/002090.html|access-date=12 June 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150614031300/http://lists.ximian.com/pipermail/glade-devel/2015-June/002090.html|archive-date=14 June 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==GtkBuilder==
[[GTK#GtkBuilder|''GtkBuilder'']] is the [[XML]] format that the Glade Interface Designer uses to [[Persistence (computer science)|save]] its forms. These documents can then be used in conjunction with the GtkBuilder object to instantiate the form using [[GTK]]. ''GladeXML'' is the [[XML]] format that was used with conjunction with libglade, which is now deprecated.<ref>{{cite mailing list |url=http://mail.gnome.org/archives/devel-announce-list/2009-May/msg00003.html |title=Libglade officially deprecated in favor of GtkBuilder. |mailing-list=Gnome devel-announce-list |date=11 May 2009 |access-date=13 November 2010}}</ref>

Glade Interface Designer automatically generates all the [[source code]] for a [[Graphical control element (software)|graphical control element]].

The "Gtk.Builder class" allows user interfaces to be designed without writing code.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://lazka.github.io/pgi-docs/Gtk-3.0/classes/Builder.html#Gtk.Builder |title=Gtk 3.0 documentation on github}}</ref> The class describes the interface in an [[Extensible Markup Language]] (XML) file and then loads the XML description at runtime and creating the objects automatically. The Glade Interface Designer allows creation of the user interface in a [[What You See Is What You Get|WYSIWYG]] manner. The description of the user interface is independent from the programming language being used.

==Code sketching==
Code sketchers are software applications that help a user create source code from a GladeXML file. Most code sketchers create source code which uses libglade and a GladeXML file to create the GUI. Some sketchers are able to create raw code that does not need the GladeXML file. The table below compares basic information about GladeXML code sketcher packages.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name
! Author
! Programming languages
! [[Software license]]
|-
| [http://efsa.sourceforge.net/archive/elphick/eglade.htm eglade] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180513183717/http://efsa.sourceforge.net/archive/elphick/eglade.htm |date=13 May 2018 }}
| Daniel Elphick
| [[Eiffel (programming language)|Eiffel]]
| [[Eiffel Forum License]]
|-
| [https://launchpad.net/gladex/ Gladex]
| Christopher Pax and Charles Edward Pax
| [[Perl]], [[Python (programming language)|Python]], [[Ruby (programming language)|Ruby]]
| [[GNU General Public License#Version 3|GPLv3]]
|-
| [http://sourceforge.net/projects/glc/ glc]
| Bill Allen
| [[Python (programming language)|Python]]
| [[GNU Lesser General Public License|LGPL]]
|-
| [http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgi?ruby-glade-create-template ruby-glade-create-template] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130607115759/http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgi?ruby-glade-create-template |date=7 June 2013 }}
| Masao Mutoh
| [[Ruby (programming language)|Ruby]]
|
|-
| [https://launchpad.net/tepache Tepache]
| Sandino Flores Moreno
| [[Python (programming language)|Python]]
| [[GNU Lesser General Public License|LGPL]]
|-
| [https://github.com/DTJF/GladeToBac GladeToBac]
| Thomas Freiherr
| [[FreeBASIC]] (includes headers for GTK-3 and
GTK-2.22.0 / GTKGlExt-1.2.0)
| [[GNU General Public License#Version 3|GPLv3]]
|-
| [http://wargaleon.users.sourceforge.net/glade2fb Glade2FB]
| Arnel Borja
| [[FreeBASIC]]
| [[GNU General Public License#Version 3|GPLv3]]
|-
| [http://sourceforge.net/projects/lorenz/files/ gate3]
| F. J. Fabien
| [[Ada (programming language)|Ada]]
| [[MIT License]]
|}

== Cambalache ==
{{Infobox software
| name = Cambalache
| title = Cambalache
| logo = Cambalache-logo.svg
| screenshot = Cambalache screenshot.png
| collapsible = 
| author = Juan Pablo Ugarte
| developer = 
| discontinued = 
| repo = https://gitlab.gnome.org/jpu/cambalache
| programming language = [[Python (programming language)|Python]]
| operating system = [[Unix-like]]
| platform = <!--Exactly which?-->
| size = 
| language = <!--Exactly which?-->
| language count = <!-- DO NOT include this parameter unless you know what it does -->
| language footnote = 
| genre = {{ubl|[[Graphical user interface builder|GUI builder]]|[[Linux on the desktop]]|[[Human interface guidelines]]}}
| license = [[GNU Lesser General Public License]]
| website = https://flathub.org/apps/ar.xjuan.Cambalache
| replaces = Glade Interface Designer
}}'''Cambalache''' ([[Help:IPA|/kambaˈlat͡ʃe/]])<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=shared&t=227&v=KKM6_dB8hoM |title=GUADEC 2024 Cambalache: road to version 1.0 |date=2024-08-02 |last=GNOME |access-date=2024-09-11 |via=YouTube}}</ref> is a [[Free and open-source software|free and open-source]] [[Rapid application development|rapid application development (RAD)]] tool<ref>{{Citation |last=James |title=Taiko2k/GTK4PythonTutorial |date=2024-09-09 |url=https://github.com/Taiko2k/GTK4PythonTutorial |access-date=2024-09-10}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Intel |first=Altus |date=2021-12-10 |title=Release Cambalache 0.8.0, GTK Interface Development Tool |url=https://www.altusintel.com/public-yy6hrj/ |access-date=2024-09-11 |website=Altus Intel |language=en-AU}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Darkcrizt |date=2021-07-22 |title=Cambalache, a tool for creating Gtk user interfaces |url=https://www.linuxadictos.com/en/swap-a-tool-for-creating-gtk-user-interfaces.html |access-date=2024-09-11 |website=Linux Adictos |language=en}}</ref> designed for creating [[User interface|user interfaces]] with [[GTK|GTK 4]]. It is designed as a successor to Glade,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Cambalache on alternativeto.net |url=https://alternativeto.net/software/cambalache/about/}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-08-25 |title=Create Beautiful User Interface for Gtk applications with Cambalache |url=https://connectwww.com/create-beautiful-user-interface-for-gtk-applications-with-cambalache/63200/ |access-date=2024-09-10 |website=CONNECTwww.com |language=en-US}}</ref> with a focus on supporting the [[GTK#GTK 4|GTK 4]] library while maintaining compatibility with [[GTK 3]]. Cambalache is geared toward [[Software Developers|developers]] working within the [[GNOME ecosystem]]. Cambalache's [[Software design|design]] emphasizes the [[Model–view–controller|Model-View-Controller (MVC)]] architecture, ensuring separation between the UI components and the [[business logic]] of applications.<br><br>The UI editing workspace is driven by a separate [[Concurrent computing|process]] called '''Merengue''' which interfaces with '''Casilda''', a [[Wayland (protocol)|Wayland]] compositor embedded in a [[GTK]] widget. This [[Computer architecture|architectural]] choice improves stability by separating the [[user interface]] preview from the main application. This separation enables the system to handle different [[GTK]] versions efficiently, ensuring the rendered UI accurately mirrors the application's appearance and behavior.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-09-26 |title=New Cambalache Release 0.92.0! – ar.xjuan.Blog |url=https://blogs.gnome.org/xjuan/2024/09/26/new-cambalache-release-0-92-0/ |access-date=2024-09-30 |language=en-US}}</ref><gallery mode="nolines" widths="240">
File:Cambalache in dark mode.png
File:Camabalache's interface.png
</gallery>

==See also==
* [[List of language bindings for GTK]]
* [[Interface Builder]]
* [[Microsoft Blend]]
* [[Qt Designer]]
* [[XUL]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
{{Commons category}}
* {{official website|https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glade}}
* {{sourceforge|gtk-mingw|Old binaries for Windows}}
* [https://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/GNOME/binaries/mac/glade3/ Old binaries for OS X]

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