Re: building a modular interface

2012-03-27 Thread Sébastien Granjoux
Hi, Le 27/03/2012 10:03, Lachlan a écrit : libgdl is EXACTLY what i wanted to do. after looking at ajunta it's perfect. looks like gnome team is handling it now as well http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdl/3.4/ Yes, GDL is still used by Anjuta and is maintained by Anjuta's team. It

learning gtk+ well: Which book to buy?

2012-03-27 Thread Christopher Howard
Hi. I want to have a thorough and well-formed understanding of how to use gtk+, which I'm not quite getting from the API. What would be the best book I can buy right now? The most up-to-date book I see is Foundations of GTK+ Development (2007) but not having a lot of money to experiment with, I

Re: learning gtk+ well: Which book to buy?

2012-03-27 Thread Vlad Volodin
Hello Howard, I am afraid to disappoint you, but in this case books will not help much. GTK+ was changed significantly comparing to GTK+ from the 2007. The best way to start learning is to read a documentation, play with demos and tutorials, examine other non-complex projects. If you are able to

Re: learning gtk+ well: Which book to buy?

2012-03-27 Thread Tristan Van Berkom
Hi, I have to strongly agree with Vlad here, I think the quality of information that you can find in print on GTK+ pales in comparison to what you have readily available on the internet. Of course finding the right material to read might be staggering at first, just toy with the apis a little,

Re: learning gtk+ well: Which book to buy?

2012-03-27 Thread Vlad Volodin
Hi again, Oh! I remember more. Sometimes Vala implementation helped me in the past, when I learned how to create GObject classes, interfaces, public, private section. Vala looks like C# and might help you to understand how to make correct GObject classes :) Best regards, Vlad 27 марта 2012 г.

Re: learning gtk+ well: Which book to buy?

2012-03-27 Thread Axel FILMORE
I agree about Vala, here's my personal experience, I'm a programmer, mostly C++ but not a great Linux lover :-P I heard about Vala, I dowloaded the Vala IDE binaries, copy pasted the TreeView with TreeStore tutorial : https://live.gnome.org/Vala/GTKSample That was just incredible to build and

Re: learning gtk+ well: Which book to buy?

2012-03-27 Thread Axel FILMORE
And I forgot that trick, if you use Google, you can search files of a particular type with filetype For example you can search GtkTreeView in C source code with this : GtkTreeView filetype:c Or in Vala with this : Gtk.TreeView filetype:vala Then you have a huge book with tons of sample code.

Timely Display of Dialog Contents

2012-03-27 Thread Marshall Lake
I have an issue where the contents of a dialog (a label pic) is not always displayed in a timely manner (or at all). In the code below the dialog outline (the size of the dialog changes from pic to pic) always displays properly as it should. But the contents of the label and the pic in