[KLUG Members] Link Of the Week GTK tutorial

[Jim Pharis]

On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:

> >Im playing with GTK right now. Been finding myself at that tutorial
> >alot but the best resource I have found so far is at www.wrox.com, which of
> >course publishes books. They have all the code from their beginning
> >GTK programming book in a tarball. Printing it out is a small book in
> >itself but its full of solid examples on how to put the peices together. TIP
> >(dont print the executables).
>
> How about a presentation on GTK and especially GLADE?  Please please please....

NO excuses but I have class on Tuesday nights. That means no Kzoo meetings
for me this semester. Possibly 2002 I can do something on GLADE.

>
> ><rant>
> >I learned not to sit down in front of glade unless you understand
> >packing widgets. Otherwise you'll get mad at glade and blaim it for your
> >ignorence. Once you learn GTK programming well enough you'll go back
> >to glade and think "this is nice".
> ></rant>
>
> In my several brief attempts to use GLADE (the GNOME guys keep saying how
> awesome it is, and hoe in GNOME 2.0 it is simply going to ROCK YOUR WORLD),  and
> it has always sent me packing,  tail tucked firmly between my legs.  But then
> I'm not really a developer.
>
> >Im interested to know from someone who already knows graphical
> >programming, how close is GTK. Does GTK adhere to other graphical
> >programming languages designs? I recognized events from my Java Script
> >experience, but thats the extent of it.
>
> I'm told (second hand knowledge here) by people I think are rather bright,  that
> every GUI toolkit is an island.  Signals are a generation beyond callbacks,  but
> every toolkit relies on one or the other.  They say Qt's "object" model is the
> most "out there",

Thats interesting. I studied GUI programming in Linux and I
looked into both environments, libs, etc. I felt that dispite the fast
advancments in KDE that the underlying workings of GNOME were
thought out more clearly. I can't exactly place my finger on it though.

with GTK lying somewhere between Qt and Java or OWL.  What
> that means it open to your interpretation,  cause I don't have a clue.  Ages ago
> I wrote OWL code (Borland, Win32),  I wrote a simple Qt app years ago (die QT
> die) and I've peered into the dark realm of GTK,  but not written anything I'd
> go so far as to call an "app"... so just discard everything I've said on this
> topic as you may know more than I do.
>
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Sincerely, Jim Pharis



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