is there any important difference ( or advantages-disadvantages) between glade files and writing codes when designing gui?

Please refer to:

http://www.kksou.com/php-gtk2/PHP-GTK2-Help/594-ReeBook-Purchasing.php#594

Regards,
/kksou

I don't know your skill in programming php-gtk I'm self made programmer but after a long time I think this is the right way to approch to php gtk:

1 ) learn PHP
2 ) learn OOP characheristics of PHP5
3 ) learn PHP-GTK2 ( study the examples from this site )
4 ) learn GLADE
5 ) use all mixed

For my point of view, the main difference is that you can see rapidly the final aspect of your application. But coding your application is better, and is better if you use classes so you can reuse your own widgets.

Glade is not R.A.D. tool , Glade is a GUI builder but after the GUI is builded you have to dirty you hands
with code , and if you want to use some special fuctions you must add your widget GUI builded with gui.

For example think about this stupid case :

You have a Window with a combo and a button and all is builded with GLADE.

COMBO is Empty and you would fill it with an array of codes of you articles picked from a table from a database.

You would navigate this combo but to read 1000 rows of codes the application beacomes very slow so you would paginate the lis of you combo.....

You must build a special combo and insert it into your glade gui..

Ciao Bye