Re: draft of bonobo controls tutorial 0.0.1

[Michael Meeks <michael helixcode com>]

Hi Dirk,

On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Dirk-Jan C. Binnema wrote:
> At http://linux.denhaag.org/bonobo_controls/ you can find a new
> version of the tutorial I wrote on writing bonobo controls. 

	This discussion is really nice; a good practical guide to reating
your first control. I do however have a few comments;

	* I would export a single string property of the stringified IP
address; this is so people can see the usual use case of the arg_id ie.

	switch (arg_id) {
	case IP_STRING:
		...
		break;
	default:
		g_warning ("Unknown id");
		break;
	};

	Whilst your use of the arg_id works fine; it is perhaps hard for a
begginner to see how to extend this in a nice way to a larger variety of
types of argument.

> I have added a discussion of property bag listeners, updated the code
> to the latest CVS versions of Bonobo, fixed a lot of errors, and
> probably introduced some new errors.

	Great :-) With our nice frozen API your pain should be reduced
significantly now.

> I'd like to thank all people who have send me error reports,
> suggestions, fixes and other forms of encouragement.
> Please continue to do so!

	Another thing that I thought was possibly a mistake, was putting
all the code in to handle bonobo-win / the ui container. Although you
explain it nicely, it is not neccessary for the simple embedding case
which is just:

	bonobo_widget_new (..., NULL);

	which is far more simple and hassle free; of course, the
BonoboWindow stuff is great to have too, perhaps that could go in a 'full
version' you attach in an appendix ?

	The version of bonobo this should work with is perhaps
Bonobo>=0.28 ( ie. the last release ), and Oaf >= 0.6.0.

	Thanks for this valuable resource; perhaps we should put it on
developer.gnome.org somewhere; or put a link from the bonobo FAQ.

	Regards,

		Michael.

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