1 Graphical User Interfaces, The UNIX Way
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4 Pipeglade is a helper program that displays graphical user interfaces
5 for other programs. It renders the GUI definition found in a
6 GtkBuilder file (created using the Glade Interface Designer), and
7 communicates with the main program solely via pipes or fifos.
9 Visit http://pipeglade.boundp.org
17 should build a usable binary.
19 make PREFIX=/some/dir/ install
21 installs the pipeglade binary in /some/dir/bin/ and its manual page in
22 /some/dir/man/man1/. Default PREFIX is /usr/local/.
24 To get rid of the installation, call
30 make PREFIX=/some/dir/ uninstall
40 runs pipeglade's tests (which require some human assistance). The
41 GtkBuilder file for the test GUI, pipeglade.ui, is also used in the
46 which redirects the messages initiated by user activity on the GUI
47 back into a text area of the same GUI.
49 There are three other example GtkBuilder files. To see how they look
52 ./pipeglade -u simple_dialog.ui
56 ./pipeglade -u simple_open.ui.
58 The third one, bad_window.ui, is for testing, and is intentionally
65 FreeBSD 10.1, GTK+ 3.14.5
66 Debian wheezy, GTK+ 3.4.2