I agree with you. gtkmm and mainly gstreamermm are lacking of documentation.
This is the main reason why I use Qt for GUI and the C version of gstreamer. When you finish your tutorial, let us know. :) 2011/6/20 Phong Cao <phn...@gmail.com> > Thank you Brett I already subscribed to gtkmm mailing list and I am half > way done with my software using gtkmm + gstreamermm. > > I would say that gtkmm is very "C++-ish" which, as you said, helps me more > in understanding the C++ ways of doing things. But I found that my decent > foundation in GTK+ is still necessary in understanding gtkmm, since it is > only a matter of switching syntax and functional to OOP. > > I think that after getting a long well with gtkmm and gstreamermm I will > write a small tutorial on my blog for gtkmm. I found the gtkmm main tutorial > is a little terse and does not explain very deeply the concept of > adjustment, scale, etc... > > As many people have pointed out on many other forums the main tutorial is > still lack of the clearance that the book "Foundations of GTK+ Development" > and main GTK+ tutorial have. I feel like the main gtkmm tutorial just throws > huge bunch of codes in and lets the users figure out him/herself, without > really understanding the underlying concept, like inheritance hierarchy, > glibmm, etc... Some examples they gave are too complicated that (as far as I > remember) a GTK+ newbie like me last year was unable to grab. "What is > spinbox? what is adjustment? Why do we need to pack adjustment into the > spinbox?". The main gtkmm tutorial explains all of these concepts in less > than 2 paragraphs, then throws a 4-5 pages of codes to the readers, which > made me feel like they just copied all of them from the reference document. > > It is not the fluency of C++ that affected my understanding of gtkmm but > the tutorial that makes me confused about the core concept of creating GTK > GUI. But now after digging in GTK+ I feel that everything in gtkmm is clear, > just a matter of switching from functional to OOP. I think after finishing > this project I will be ready to make a small tutorial. > > Thank you for your sharings! Have a good day! > > > Best regards, > Phong Cao > > On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Brett Viren <b...@bnl.gov> wrote: > >> Phong Cao <phn...@gmail.com> writes: >> >> > BTW, do you guys have any wrapper for GtkMozEmbed? Is there anything >> that I can >> > use instead of it? I just want to embed a browser window into my >> application >> > and I don't know how to embed GtkMozEmbed into Gtkmm app? >> >> I suggest subscribing to the gtkmm mailing list for such questions. >> >> Regarding your original questions, maybe my experience is useful. When >> I was a fledgling C++ programmer I wrote a gtkmm based GUI. Besides >> finding it accessible for a new C++ (but old C) programmer, it helped >> teach me a lot of the "C++ way" of doing things. It was such a strong >> influence that when I was later forced to use an inferior GUI for a >> project I partially grafted sigc++ on to it to replace its string based >> signal/slot mechanism. It was an improvement but it took a lot of work >> and in the end was still not as satisfying as gtkmm. >> >> Luck, >> -Brett. >> > > > _______________________________________________ > libsigc-list mailing list > libsigc-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/libsigc-list > > -- Vinícius dos Santos Oliveira https://profiles.google.com/118295250366112843114/about Linux user #481186 Majoring in Computer Science Instituto da Computação at Universidade Federal de Alagoas Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil
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