You don’t want to generate code. You really don’t want to generate code. Repetition is the bane of programming. You want to abstract it away, not make it more efficient by making the computer do the typing for you.

Indeed, the code generation stuff in Glade is deprecated.

The recommended usage for Glade2 is to link against libglade (ie Gtk2::GladeXML in Perl) and load the XML files at runtime. You can then access widgets by the names you gave them in the Glade2 GUI editor.

Makeshifts last the longest.