Gnome API redesign

The XP Framework's GUI apis date back to the PHP4 / GTK1 days and have not been touched since then. In desparate need of an overhaul, and following the PHP-GTK2 releases and the stability provided by its PHP5 backing, I began an experiment to redesign the API from scratch.

Prerequisites

The GUI api is based on the so-called "Gimp Tool Kit", better known as "Gtk" these days. Language bindings exist for many languages, PHP's is called PHP-GTK.

Resources can be found at http://gtk.php.net/ and http://php-gtk.eu/

Setting it up (Windows)

Getting PHP-GTK is as easy as:

• Go to http://gtk.php.net/download.php
• Download php-gtk-2.0.1 Windows binary pack and php-gtk-2.0.1 Windows binary extensions pack
• Unpack their contents into, say, f:\Programme\php-gtk2
• You need php-gtk.extensions = php_gtk_libglade2.dll in php-cli.ini

Setting it up (Un*x)

See here http://php-gtk.eu/de/resources/installing and here http://gtk.php.net/manual/en/tutorials.installation.php

Testing it

To run the sample applications in this directory, use the following shell commands:

  $ XP_RT=/path/to/php-gtk2/php xp ButtonClick
  $ XP_RT=/path/to/php-gtk2/php xp GladeApp

Elements

lib
org
gnome.pth	2010-03-22 08:47:30+0100
GenerateClasses.class.php	2010-03-22 08:47:30+0100
GladeApp.class.php	2010-03-22 08:47:30+0100
ButtonClick.class.php	2010-03-22 08:47:30+0100
README	2010-03-22 08:47:30+0100
hello.glade	2010-03-22 08:47:30+0100