Re: Java compatability

[Mike Newman <mike gtnorthern demon co uk>]

On 03 Apr 2001 17:36:17 +1000, Scott McKenzie wrote:

> Also, how long would it take to fully learn and understand gnome if i was to create a moderately advanced program with it.


Hmm....a bit of a "how long is a piece of string" question!

GNOME and GTK+ have a reasonably simple, reasonably logical,
sort-of-object-oriented API in C, which despite occasional
idiosyncracies is pretty easy to get to grips with. Along with this,
there are mature bindings for C++, Perl and Python in which some serious
applications have been developed. Add on the Glade GUI builder and you
have a relatively low time-to-coding overhead.

There are some useful resources at http://developer.gnome.org, including
Havoc Pennington's GTK+/GNOME Application Development (free for download
under the GPL). You may find locating docs for the more bleeding edge
technologies in GNOME less fruitful, but that's the beauty of having the
source!

Mike

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