ANNOUNCE: gtkmm 2.5.3 and glibmm 2.5.2

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

*** gtkmm and glibmm 2.5/2.6

gtkmm 2.5 wraps new API in GTK+ 2.5, and is API/ABI-compatibile with gtkmm 2.4. 
The new API is unstable, until this become the API/ABI-stable gtkmm 2.6 when 
GTK+ 2.5 becomes the API-stable GTK+ 2.6.

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

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

http://www.gtkmm.org


*** Changes

gtkmm 2.5.3:

* Builds against the final GTK+ 2.6 API.

Gtk:
* CellRenderer.hg: Added stop_editing() which replaces the 
  now-deprecated editing_cancelled().
* CellView: Inherit from CellLayout. Removed set_value(). 
  Added convenience constructors.
* FileChooserButton.hg: Added action parameters to constructors. 
* IconView: Added get/set_columns(), get/set_item_width(),
  get/set_spacing(), get/set_row_spacing(), get/set_column_spacing(), 
  get/set_margin().
* Label: Added get/set_max_chars_width(), and property.
* TextView: Added get_iter_at_position().

Gdk:
* Pixbuf: Added create_from_file() overload that takes 
  height and width. (Murray Cumming)

Documentation:
* Reference API: Re-extracted C docs, so that the new API
  will be automatically documented. (Murray Cumming)
* examples:
  - input: Use Glib::IOChannel. (Claudio Saavedra)


glibmm 2.5.2:

* OptionEntry: Remove useless enum. (Murray Cumming)
* Documentation:
  - examples: Added iochannel_stream example. (Chris Vine)
  - reference: Generate more reference API from the C documentation, and
    try to use the libstdc++ doxygen tags file to link to their 
    documentation. (Murray Cumming)


*** Download

http://www.gtkmm.org/download.shtml

You will need libsigc++ 2.0, 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