Crow Designer

Update 2006-10-25: Crow Designer (formerly known as 'Gideon') is no longer under active development.

Package	License	Dependencies	GTK+	Version	Sources	RPM	Date	Monitor
crow	MIT	guiloader-c++ dbus-glib xdg-utils	2.12	2.11.3	tar	1	2008-04-18	subscribe
crow	MIT	guiloader-c++ dbus-glib xdg-utils	2.10	2.11.2	tar	1	2007-11-22	subscribe
guiloader	MIT	gtk2	2.12	2.12.0	tar	1 2	2008-04-18	subscribe
guiloader	MIT	gtk2	2.10	2.10.1	tar	1 2	2007-09-01	subscribe
guiloader-c++	MIT	guiloader gtkmm24	2.12	2.12.0	tar	1 2	2008-04-18	subscribe
guiloader-c++	MIT	guiloader gtkmm24	2.10	2.10.1	tar	1 2	2007-09-01	subscribe
rally	BSD	guiloader-c++ libcurl rpm-libs zlib db4-cxx xdg-utils usermode	2.12	0.4.2	tar	1	2008-05-13	subscribe
rally	BSD		2.10	0.3.1	tar	1	2007-12-21	subscribe

About Crow Designer

Crow is a modern GUI builder for the GTK+ toolkit. It is an advanced IDE-embeddable RAD tool designed to fulfill the needs of desktop programmers who want to create multi-platform GTK+ based applications with minimal GUI coding. Crow is full-featured yet lightweight: its tree-based Property Explorer solves many GUI constructing tasks in a versatile manner without additional popup dialogs. The project is targeted to develop a tool that is coherent and productive for experienced GTK+ users as well as simple and accessible for newcomers.

Features Summary:

Property Explorer for managing trees of nested objects and arrays
undo/redo for all operations
uses GuiXml as a save format: a simple GUI description language
utilizes GtkUIManager for generating menus and toolbars
multi-platform: X11/Posix and Windows are supported
IDE-embeddable via a dynamic library or a DBus p2p service
standalone designer application is included in the distribution

About GuiLoader Library

GuiLoader is a high-performance and compact GuiXml loader library. This library allows GTK+ applications to create GUI widgets and objects at run-time from GuiXml resource files. GuiLoader is written in the C language as a GObject subclass and has a trivial language-independent API. GuiLoader was designed to be easily wrapped for any language that has GTK+ bindings.

About Rally Application

Rally is a fast GuiLoader-based front end for RPM. It provides RPM package management functionality via an intuitive tree-less graphical interface. Users are able to browse available repositories, search for packages, perform updates, installations and removals. Rally employs Parallel Installer, which downloads and updates packages simultaneously, potentially reaching a vast performance boost. The name of this application reflects its orientation for speedy and reliable processing, having the same meaning as in e.g. "Paris-Dakar endurance rally". Rally is a part of the Crow Designer project, and was started as a sample GuiLoader-based application.

Assorted Links

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