On Thursday 30 November 2000 19:13, Martin wrote:
> I've decided to improve my c and learn a gui toolkit for Linux. At the
> moment I am thinking about gtk. Anyone got any tips on a good book? Or
> any advice on whether c/gtk is a good combination or should I be
> learning something else? Any tips appreciated. So far all i've done is
> take a look at the gtk getting started guide and FAQ.
I work for Trolltech so ofcourse I throughly recommend you try Qt :)
It is quite nice, object oriented and very well documented. I think the
documentation is one of it's major strengths. There are also tutorials
included and some example programs. If that's not enough then O'Reilly's have
Qt programming books which you can get from most technical bookstores.
If however you do decide to use Gtk then have a look at a book called
"Developing Linux Applications" written by Eric Harlow. It's not too bad.
There are quite a few toolkits out there, but Gtk and Qt are the two main
ones. Personally I think C++ and OO techniques are very useful for GUI
programming. Gtk is sort of OO but it's written in C. If you do want to use
Gtk with C++ then have a look at Inti which is coming along. It doesn't have
the maturity that Qt has, but it is LGPL (Qt/X11 and Qt/Embedded are GPL).
Regards
John
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