ANNOUNCE: gtkmm and glibmm 2.4.0

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

*** gtkmm and glibmm 2.4:

gtkmm provides a C++ interface to GTK+. gtkmm 2.4 wraps additional API in GTK+ 2.4. 
gtkmm 2.4 installs in parallel with gtkmm 2.2, so you can have both installed at 
the same time. glibmm is now a separate module, for use in non-GUI software.

gtkmm stays in-sync with GTK+ by following the official GNOME Platform Bindings 
release schedule:
http://www.gnome.org/start/2.5/bindings/

Bindings for the rest of the GNOME Platform are also available, and are also 
API-stable.

http://www.gtkmm.org


*** Changes since gtkmm 2.2:

- Highlights:

  There are several new widgets/classes, with examples:

  * New File Chooser:
    FileChooser, FileChooserWidget, FileChooserDialog, FileFilter classes.

  * Action-based Toolbar/Menu API:
    UIManager, Action, ToggleAction, RadioAction classes.

  * New Combo Box:
    ComboBox, ComboBoxEntry, ComboBoxText, CellLayout classes 

  * Auto-complete for Entry:
    EntryCompletion class.

  * Other new classes:
    IconInfo, IconTheme TargetList.

  * New ATK, Pango, and GDK API wrapped.

- Existing API improved:
  * Use of improved libsigc++ 2 API.
  * Removed useless key-binding signals.
  * Alignment: Added set/get_padding().
  * Entry: Added set/get_alignment().
  * Settings: New properties.
  * ListStore/TreeStores: Added insert_after(), which should be faster than insert().
  * TreeView: Added move_column_to_start()
  * TreeModel: Deriving is now easier, because the virtual functions now use C++ types.
  * TreeModel::iterator: Added operator--(), which is slow.
  * See the NEWS file for detailed API changes.


*** Thanks

The following people made gtkmm 2.4 happen:
  Bradley Bell
  Murray Cumming
  Bryan Forbes (lots of very significant work)
  Cedric Gustin
  Oli Kessler
  Ole Laursen
  Andrew E. Makeev
  Hagen Moebius
  Frank Naumann
  Elijah Newren
  Billy O'Connor
  Gene Ruebsamen
  Martin Schulze
  Enrico Scholz
  Sebastian Rittau
  Takashi Takekawa
  Matthew Walton


*** Download

ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/
and
http://www.gtkmm.org/download.shtml

You will need libsigc++ 2, available here: 
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1970


*** Development 

There is active discussion on the mailing list: 
http://www.gtkmm.org/mailinglist.shtml
and in the #c++ channel on irc.gnome.org


-- 
Murray Cumming
murray usa net
www.murrayc.com