The stand alone program "Glade" creates XML format files that are generally saved with a .ui or .glade suffix. As such they can let a user create a frame, add panels, buttons, and other graphical objects, set the sizes and links to what to do when that button is clicked or the text is entered into a field or the spin buttun up/down is clicked. This Glade program is available for Windows and Linux and likely also Macs.
That's not any different from say Lazarus (Free Pascal) which has the philosophy write once, compile anywhere to create applications with panels, buttons, and other graphical objects. Or Embarcadero Delphi which has the added feature of being able to also target Mac, Tablets, Iphones, Windows etc.
The 'form' they create isn't an XML file but still contains similar information.
If you have experience in writing applications with these tools then you will understand what I mean. For example, I have run this application on Windows, A beagleBone running Linux and also MachineKit, my PC running LinuxCNC for the mill and a Raspberrry Pi without any changes in the source code. The Pascal is translated from the C command line program provided by Jon Elson.
All I was originally asking for was the ability to edit an existing glade file with the ultimate goal of resizing some of the buttons with embedded .png files so that the entire PSNG screen specified for 1024x768 would fit on a 1200x800 LCD touch screen. When Glase failed to open the psng.glade file on the
Raspberry Pi running LinuxCNC (as I've just been rudely told to do but had already tried) I decided to take a step backwards and create something simple from the Glade Demo files like the provided helloWorld demo. And since Glade was available for Windows I thought I'd start there.
