The One-Laptop-Per-Child’s XO laptop has Tepache to generate code from Glade XML.

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/PyGTK/Hello_World_with_Glade_and_Sweettepache

But they’ve added some extras to it to make it play nicely in the sugar desktop environment and perhaps updated versions of glade 3. I guess it works for them, but i’m not developing on or for the XO right now.

Why can’t I find a code generator that works?

Tepache?

Tepache is a code sketcher for python that uses pygtk and glade.

It’s supposed to create pure python modules so they call it a sketcher rather than a generator. But the Tepache homepage is broken and it looks like it hasn’t been updated since July 2005 anyway. Following a link to anything useful will result in the incarnation of an ugly oops page.

An error has been encountered in accessing this page.
1. Server: kefir.sourceforge.net
2. URL path: /tepache/tepache
3. Error notes: NONE
4. Error type: 404

Gladex?

Gladex was broken out of the box. It wouldn’t load any plugins. The entries just show up in the dialog with place holders, so it won’t actually generate anything at all.

autoglade?

Autoglade doesn’t seem to be that old, but it’s not working on my apps and the documentation is, well… limited. There’s a README.txt but it’s empty. And a CHANGES.txt, but that’s empty too.
./autoglade.py id.glade

True: root=None
True: autoinit=None
True: autonitsplit=:
True: autodump=shell
True: AutoGlade::__init__(glade=id.glade, root=None, autorun=True, autodump=shell)
True: Should open id.glade
True: 	working directory: /home/user/python/trunk/autoglade
./autoglade.py:703: Warning: g_set_prgname() called multiple times
  properties=properties)
['__getTopLevelWidgetNames']: start
['__getTopLevelWidgetNames']: finish
['__getTopLevelWidgets']: startvi
['__getTopLevelWidgets']: finish
__mapAutoInvokeWidgetNames: start
['__findStockItem']: __findStockItem(gtk-preferences, <type 'gtk.Button'>) start
['__findStockItem']: __findStockItem(gtk-delete, <type 'gtk.MenuItem'>) start
['__findStockItem']: __findStockItem(gtk-paste, <type 'gtk.ToolButton'>) start
['__findStockItem']: __findStockItem(gtk-copy, <type 'gtk.MenuItem'>) start
['__findStockItem']: __findStockItem(gtk-about, <type 'gtk.Button'>) start
['__findStockItem']: __findStockItem: parent = <DOM Element: object at 0x8ff244c>
['__getitem__']: __getitem__(AutoGlade, __repr__)
['__getitem__']: 	checking if key=__repr__ matches reSetTreeviewCell RE
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./autoglade.py", line 2716, in <module>
    autodump=options.autodump)
  File "./autoglade.py", line 715, in __init__
    self.__getStockItems()
  File "./autoglade.py", line 1583, in __getStockItems
    self.__autoStockItems[asi][ASI_GTKCLASS])
  File "./autoglade.py", line 1565, in __getStockItem
    self.__autoGladeObjects[agokey] = self.__findStockItem(stock, gtkClass)
  File "./autoglade.py", line 1621, in __findStockItem
    raise RuntimeError('Parent is not widget')
RuntimeError: Parent is not widget

Oh well.

I’m probably just doing it wrong.

Time to just carve it out by hand.

class MyGui:
    def __init__(self):
        self.builder = gtk.Builder()
        self.builder.add_from_file("app-dialog1.glade")
...