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Dear folks,
I am very new to Gtk.I am sorry to ask very basic question.

Can Gtk builder load the binary format of user interface file.I feel rich UI like XML can take more time to load

so my idea is to load as binary file rather then XML.Is GTK has support to load binary file.

please suggest me the better alternative idea to speed up the loading time.

Thanks in Advance

Hi,

Glade only outputs a XML file and GtkBuilder can only read a XML file or XML data stored as a string. So to answer your question binary data is not supported. I would not think that there would be any performance to be gained by using a binary data file instead of an XML file but you will lose the ease of editing a XML file manually.

In an application you will normally call GtkBuilder to create a window and its widgets, get pointers to the relevant widgets and connect the signals. After that you normally ignore GtkBuilder until you need to create another window or batch of widgets. So you are not calling GtkBuilder repeatedly.

In an application I am working on I need fairly good performance as I am playing back many tracks of audio and MIDI which can be triggered at any time and also updating the display. I am also using GtkBuilder and do not find it a problem with performance.

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Hey Thanks for your reply.That sounds great...

And one more question do Gtk have support for in built 3D animation.

Have you tried any samples out of it.Is GTK have any wrapper on top of

OpenGL.. Can you brief me on this.. I am planning to implement some 3D stuffs

in my application,so i just want to know the depth level and feasibility.

Please help me out on this..

Thanks in advance