Re: General tips about GTK+ programming

[Vlad Volodin <vest 84 gmail com>]

Hi Tomaz,
I have to rewrite my game, using some general technique, in other
words I'm a bit tied with this. So, I have to rewrite my code to GTK,
and also I want to learn how to program with it :)
Vlad Volodin

2009/3/3 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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