Re: General tips about GTK+ programming

[Tomaz Canabrava <tumaix gmail com>]

from what I'v been into, it's better to write object oriented software
using object oriented programming languages. I know some in this list
dislikes c++ , but it's more sane than use pointers and simulations of
classes.
you will not learn how to program better by converting your gtkmm code
to gtk, your code will be larger and will do the same thing.

On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 7:43 AM, Vlad Volodin <vest 84 gmail com> wrote:
> Hello, everybody
>
> I'm a new programming in GTK+ (especially under C). Before, I've used
> GTKmm with C++ style, and everything was clear till now. I've read
> many GTK sources, made by people, and found, that there isn't any
> general rule of GUI program creation. Let me explain, what I want.
>
> In GTKmm, I've created a class (Gtk::Window), make public and private
> methods, also put there some data, I want to display (that data was
> wrapped inside other classes and etc). I didn't use global variables.
> If I need to show options dialog window, I've created derived class
> (OptionsWindow), and use it, for example in MainWindow class. So, I
> think it helps me with navigating inside my sources and make the code
> clearer. Main function was too little: i18n, gtkinit, mainwindow
> creation, gtkrun.
>
> In GTK world, there are no specific rules, or maybe I didn't find good
> one. I saw sources larger than 100-200 kb. They also contains all the
> windows, signals, internal data. Some of them has functions like "void
> create_gui();", other create main windows as usual "GtkWidget*
> create_main_window()".
>
> I've even read some books and tutorials about GTK. And there are also
> one file, which creates all, programmer needed. Yes, I saw some
> examples named as "Widget Creation". But nobody creates window
> widgets. Maybe you know why?
>
> And the last question, for example, I have data, I want to use in GUI.
> How should I write or manipulate with it? Should I create it as
> structure, derived from GObject? or I have to use global (or static)
> objects. and where should I initialize it?
>
> I hope I didn't make you boring. Thank everybody in advance, who will
> help me with advices, tips, maybe links and clear sources. I want to
> have a general view of GTK programming and rewrite my C++ game made by
> GTKmm to GTK, and improve programming skills.
>
> Thank you again
> Vlad Volodin
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