C++\Win32 API - Load controls at run-time from xml

Question

Is there a library that can load controls (buttons, text boxes, etc.) from an xml file? Kind of like in WPF.

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 13 '10 at 23:45

Qt's resource files (*.qrc) are quite similar to XML (though they lack an XML header, so they're not truly proper XML). At least if memory serves, they get parsed and translated to C++ at build-time, so once the application is built, the UI is "fixed".

wxWidgets has an XML-based resource system (XRC, if memory serves) that I believe parses the XML and builds a UI from it at run-time. The UI can be modified independent of the code.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 13 '10 at 23:50

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If you want to use GTKmm, then there is GTKBuilder and LibGlade (now deprecated). They get loaded at runtime and define a UI in XML.

answered Aug 13 '10 at 23:50

Soo Wei Tan

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There is a Windows version of GTKMm (http://live.gnome.org/gtkmm/MSWindows). It does come with a large set of dependent DLLs though. – Soo Wei Tan Aug 15 '10 at 06:29

C++\Win32 API - Load controls at run-time from xml

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