RE: draft of bonobo controls tutorial 0.0.1

["Willem J Dantuma" <willem dantuma dobs nl>]

Micheal,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gnome-components-list-admin gnome org
> [mailto:gnome-components-list-admin gnome org]On Behalf Of Michael Meeks
> Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 1:42 AM
> To: Dirk-Jan C. Binnema
> Cc: gnome-components-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: draft of bonobo controls tutorial 0.0.1
> 
> 
> 
> 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.

The link is already on the http://developer.gnome.org/doc/tutorials/ page.


Regards,

Willem