Hi,

Concerning the existing GTK+ code, my advice is to ignore it.

Better to look at some of the code that Ovidiu Ciule wrote for the PyQT
front end - much of that is very recent, and you should be able to
figure out pretty easily what he was up to.

Cheers,
Dave.

Paul Ryan wrote:
> Hey Dave, 
> 
> I've downloaded the COIP source from
> http://hg.qutecom.org/qutecom-coip/archive/tip.zip
> 
> I see that there is already some gtk code in the source. Would anyone be
> able to direct me how to build the gtk code that is already there ? I
> don't see any make files etc and documentation is a little sparse too. 
> 
> I must admit I do need a lot of help to get started, Looking at the src
> now and trying to figure out where to start is a bit overwhelming. 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 09:00 +0200, Dave Neary wrote:
>> Hi Paul,
>>
>> The ideal is to work on the (experimental) COIP Manager branch, which is
>> still under active development I believe.
>>
>> This branch doesn't depend on the GUI libraries of QT (it does depend on
>> libqtcore, I think - which is essentially QT's glib), and you can add a
>> completely independent GUI that uses the library.
>>
>> You don't have to use glade although it might be a good idea to use it,
>> or Gazpacho, or any of the other GNOME GUI builders.
>>
>> I'd suggest using gtkmm rather than gtk+ directly - since the rest of
>> QuteCom is already C++ it's likely to make things easier.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Dave.
>>
>> Paul Ryan wrote:
>>> Hey all,
>>>
>>> I'm a developer currently not working in IT and looking for a project,
>>> partially out of interest and partially for a reason to keep coding
>>> while I am working in a different field.
>>> I've never done any UI development on Linux but I am a long time Linux
>>> user and I have developed low level non-GUI stuff on Linux before in my
>>> last job.
>>>
>>> I would very much like to try and develop a GTK frontend for
>>> wengophone/qutecom as I want to use it myself and I want to learn about
>>> working with glade (I assume I must use glade) and UI development.
>>>
>>> I'm currently running debian lenny (testing) and have gcc, glade etc
>>> installed.
>>>
>>> What I don't have unfortunately is a clue about where to go from here,
>>> would someone be available for some hand holding to try and help me get
>>> started ?
>>>
>>> Thanks very much in advance.
>>>
>>> Paul
>>>
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> 
> 

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