.TH GATE 1 "29 March 1999" "GNU Debian/Linux" "GtkAda programming manual"
.SH NAME
gate \- generate Ada applications from a GLADE XML file
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B gate
.I file
.SH DESCRIPTION
\fIgate\fP is the static version of the program transforming
a file produced by \fIglade(1)\fP, the Gtk GUI builder, into an Ada
program.
It will generate a set of Ada files that, when compiled, will
recreate the interface you just designed in \fIglade(1)\fP.
The most important file created by Gate is called
.\" .IR "callback_<project_name>.adb" .
.IB "callback_" "<project_name>" ".adb"
and contains stubs for all the callbacks you declared in Glade.
.PP
Note that you can easily go back to Glade any time, modify your interface,
and have \fIgate\fP regenerate a set of files. All your modifications will be
kept in the new files. For that, \fIgate\fP creates a directory
.B .gate
in the current directory. Please do not delete it if you want \fIgate\fP to be able to
keep your changes from one version to the next.
Also note that to be able to keep track of your modifications, gate relies on
patch and diff being available on your system. If you don't have a working set
of diff/patch, configure will simply replace them by null operations.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR gtkada-config (1),
.BR dgate (1),
.BR glade (1)
.SH "COPYRIGHT FOR THIS MAN PAGE"
This man page has been written by Samuel Tardieu
for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution, from informations given
by the GtkAda authors Emmanuel Briot, Joel Brobecker and Arnaud Charlet.

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