GTKSharp Window Decorator

A C# class generator for glade files.

The binary is framework independant written in .NET 6. The file gtksd, gtksd.exe is the renamed output file for shorter name on invocation. You can get gtksd from the releases page.

How to use

gtksd is for use with https://github.com/GtkSharp/GtkSharp.
gtksd shouldn't be too hard to use unless you are unfamiliar with command line interface. You can always refer to built-in help by invoking gtksd -h.

Usage:
  gtksd [options]

Options:
  --file <file>                      The .glade XML input file to generate from
  --window <window>                  The window id in the glade resource
  --with-namespace <with-namespace>  Namespace for generated class
  --output-folder <output-folder>    Output location for generated files (optional, defaults to current directory)
  --ui-only                          Generates the UI definitions only (optional, defaults to true) [default: True]
  --version                          Show version information
  -?, -h, --help                     Show help and usage information

Example

gtksd --file abs-auto.glade --window MainWindow --with-namespace ABS --output-folder UI --ui-only false

The above command will parse abs-auto.glade, finding a GtkWindow with widget id MainWindow. The output class will be partial class MainWindow in namespace ABS. the --ui-only false tells gtks to generate not only the UI definitions, but also the class separated, outputs both MainWindow.UI.cs and MainWindow.cs in the UI folder.

Sample UI Definition Output

using Gtk;
using UI = Gtk.Builder.ObjectAttribute;

namespace ABS {

public partial class MainWindow: Window
{

    private MainWindow(Builder builder) : base(builder.GetRawOwnedObject("MainWindow"))
    {
        builder.Autoconnect(this);
    }

        [UI] public Button btnSpeakSequence1
        [UI] public Label lblSequence1NomorPolisi
        [UI] public Label lblSequence1NomorPO
        [UI] public Label lblSequence1KodeMaterial
        [UI] public Label lblSequence1DocKey
        [UI] public Label lblSequence1Sequence1Start
        [UI] public Label lblSequence1Sequence2Start
        [UI] public Label lblSequence1Sequence2End
        [UI] public Label lblSequence1TipeTruk
        [UI] public Button btnSpeakSequence2
        [UI] public Label lblSequence2NomorPolisi
        [UI] public Label lblSequence2NomorPO
        [UI] public Label lblSequence2KodeMaterial
        [UI] public Label lblSequence2DocKey
        [UI] public Label lblSequence2Sequence1Start
        [UI] public Label lblSequence2Sequence2Start
        [UI] public Label lblSequence2Sequence2End
        [UI] public Label lblSequence2TipeTruk
        [UI] public Button btnReconnect
        [UI] public Button btnReset
        [UI] public Button btnConfigure

}

}

Sample Window class Output

using Gtk;

namespace ABS {

public partial class MainWindow: Window
{

    public MainWindow() : this(new Builder("abs-auto.glade"))
    {
    }

}

}

TODOs

There are a lot of improvements to be made since the code was written at 2AM lol and is very messy.

• Refactor and clean up code
• Regenerate file on glade file change feature
• Compile for Linux. Shouldn't be too hard since there is no platform-specific code.

Warnings

• gtksd, GtkSharpWindowDecorator was written with naive approach, assuming all GTK classes that should be generated has the Gtk prefix to be removed and might not be suitable for every cases.
• gtksd, GtkSharpWindowDecorator generates only definitions of a GtkWindow with the widget id specified in --window switch.

Pull requests, issues and discussions are welcome to improve gtksd.
Have a nice day.