Re: [gtk-list] Gtk-- versus GTK+

[Guillaume Laurent <glaurent worldnet fr>]

Peter Berlau <pberlau@muenster.de> writes:

> My goal is to program some stuff for sound - playing, like
> heartraining and notation my profession is music not programming

I'm using Gtk-- (and got involved in it to start with) for the GUI of
Rosegarden, a notation editor (see my homepage for more details).

> (but I have a lot of fun programming some things).
> Ok, 
> I very confused in what should I preffer to use        
>  - Gtk-- 
>  - GTK+
> I preffer writing C++ - Code but some people say
> its better using GTK+ instead Gtk++ and wrap the
> code myself

Then you would be re-inventing Gtk--, as it mostly wraps GTK+ (with a
couple of C++-related niceties here and there).

> They say:
> - Gtk-- is oversized,

What can I answer to that... "No, it's not" perhaps ? Size, especially
in programming, is a very subjective matter.

> - Gtk-- is only a subset of GTK+ 

Wrong. All the widgets are here, only some signals are missing (mostly
in Gtk_Style). 99% of the GTK+ functionality is there, the remaining
1% is something you very rarely use.

> - Gtk-- is not documented( in fact  I can't find documentation for Gtk--)

Wrong, although the doc is far from complete. Then again, the GTK+ doc
can be refered to just as well for most of the features, except
signals. The translation is straightforward.

> - and "there is no standard"

No standard what ?

> but:
> - GTK+ is very stabil 
> - GTK+ is very powerfull 
> - GTK+ is the best of all.

And Gtk-- wraps all this the best it can. Ain't that great ?

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					Guillaume.
					http://www.worldnet.fr/~glaurent