Re: A newbie question...

["Mauro Ferreira" <mauroferreira enersulnet com br>]

Tara M Wrote:

> Would this complicate things for the user? I've seen many `similar'
> ways to compile stuff and they never really seem to work.

Well, this is working very well for me....

> Maybe your putting too much GTK dependencies and levels of IO (ie
> that mysql stuff) and making it complicated. GTK+ 1.3 is not the
> same as the stable GTK+ 1.2.x.

Then is stable enough. Is doing well things that are impossible under
M$FC.

> If your doing this now why are you getting into MySQL? Is there
> a reason you need to learn both in parallel?

All my apps are database related - specially mysql related. And my
samples are just tests to compare mysql compatibility with GTK+..... and
i discovered that GNU mingw 2.95.2 with GTK+ 1.3 and mysql 3.23.40 are
FULL compatible - my samples with this combo got best results and are
more stable than M$FC counterparts. This implied to me that's learn
GTK/GDK is a good path to jump to linux.

> I'm confused at your approach, why are you going into an integrated
> development, using GTK+ with MySQL when you haven't understood
> GDK yet?

Because first i needed to test GTK with mysql and mingw 2.95.2 to see if
this 'combo' is a good path to convert my apps for then jump to linux.
The result was so good that now i'm starting to learn all about GTK/GDK,
because now i'm sure that i'll can port all my apps to linux without any
undesirable surprise - even the IDE i'm using (Dev-C++) have a linux
port !

That's it : Now i'm a GTK/GDK newbie. And thanks a lot for all clues and
sugestions you all did for me. Thanks for the clues i already did
because this pointed i'm in the right way, and thanks for all new for me
because i have a lot to learn about ! If anyone can point some new
clues, this will be wellcome too !

Mauro Ferreira
mauroferreira@enersulnet.com.br