For me, create GTK+ custom widgets is a very common task. Using templates for them, too.
Use GTK+ widgets defined by UI XML files, may be created by Glade, is a powerful feature.
Once you create your UI file, you should add it to a gresource XML file too, in order to use glib-compile-resources to compile an embed, if you wish, in your binaries.
Once your project is big enough, you may fall in a large gresource XML file. Regenerate compiled resources based on resources changes, can be tricky, and a hand work.
So I’ve created gresg, a tool to generate automatically an XML gresource file based in a list of files to be compiled with glib-compile-resources. This will help you to trigger a rebuild of compiled resources at any time you make changes in your files.
gresg, is written in Vala and uses GXml to generate XML resources files. As you can see in gresg’s repository, is a very small program.
If you are using Meson you can create a custom target to generate your XML resources, but you need this patch applied to Vala to take all its advantages and automatic re-build of resources.
