At 6:58 PM +0200 12/9/05, Jarkko Elfving wrote: >Hello > >I'm starting my first GTK programming and I need some guidance. > >I've searching in Google little help, but I haven't found any >full-filling guides yet to help me in this little project. Some kind of >help I've found, but I'm sure that there is more and better helps with >working examples. All I've found for GTK is reference docs and a rather uneven guide. I'm programming in Python, which pretty well eliminates the large amounts of scaffolding code that GTK requires when used from C. Use the source. Gedit is one accessible GTK application. There are lots of apps at www.gnome.org, and you can browse them in CVS or download the FC SRPMS. Go with the flow in GTK. GTK menu handling is, umm, disappointing. Most GTK apps don't bother disabling menu items that don't apply to the current conditions or selection. Also, GTK doesn't have Undo in it, neither in its UI management or in its widgets. I found Glade to be mysterious. Now that I have a better understanding of the GTK class and containment hierarchies, I might find it less mysterious, but I still don't plan to use it. The thing that GTK is best at is automatically laying out visual layouts constructed on the fly. Glade doesn't seem to have much real purpose. >Also I'm trying to finding some useful commands to build a system wide >program with functions like getenv() and system(). I don't understand the question. You already have getenv() and system() with your C library, right? (They are in Python, as well.) >What else I should to noticed before I start this kind of project? wxWidgets? QT? I don't know them yet, but they might be a better choice. (Though, any of wxWidgets, QT, and GTK can be used on various OSs. I have my Python GTK app running on MSWindows as well as FC3 Linux.) ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
