Re: gtkmm3?

[Josh Bialkowski <jbialk MIT EDU>]

> > I was reading the gtkmm book and when I hit the clock example for
> > drawing widgets with cairo, I realized that this was exactly what I was
> > looking for (i.e. wanting to draw widgets with cairo). It was only after
> > I couldn't get the example to compile that I noticed the note that it
> > was for gtkmm3 not gtkmm2 (after all, I guess gtk3 is where all the
> > cairo drawing is at anyway).
> 
> Yes, you were probably looking at this, for gtkmm-3.0:
> http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtkmm-tutorial/unstable/sec-drawing-clock-example.html.en
> 
> But maybe you want to look at this instead, for gtkmm-2.4:
> http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtkmm-tutorial/stable/sec-drawing-clock-example.html.en
> 

Ah! I got to the tutorial from the main page and hadn't noticed the
"unstable" in the URL. Thanks for the link.

> > Anyway, so is gtkmm3 without a stable branch at this moment? If so, how
> > stable are the unstable branches? Should I be able to build and use
> > them?
> 
> No, gtkmm 3 is not stable yet. Hopefully it will be soon.

Ok, thanks. 


> There is a gtkmm-list mailing list, by the way. 

Oops! I should have known... I will post future gtkmm questions to that
list. 

Thanks!