Re: Timers

["Ian Frawley" <ifrawley opaltelecom co uk>]

Hi Krishnan

I have already bought a copy of Havoc Pennington's GTK+ / Gnome Application
Development, which is good but I need a book that's a little bit softer
going as I am starting from scratch with more code examples and stuff. I
have GTK+ installed and the web based GTK+ Reference manual, which has been
really useful. I suppose I shouldn't get to bogged down with all the
different acronyms that fly about.

I have developed a front end for my app that makes use of message boxes and
dialog boxes so I am getting the hang of it now.

Have you any ideas for my first question?

> I am trying to develop an application on Linux. This application has a GUI
which I have implemented using GTK written in C++. >The problem is that I
have to periodically poll another application so a timer widget or something
would be great but I don't think >timers exist. Hopefully I am wrong and
someone could point me in the right direction.

Thanks allot

Ian
----- Original Message -----
From: "S. Krishnan" <sri_krishnan yahoo com>
To: <gtk-app-devel-list gnome org>
Cc: "Ian Frawley" <ifrawley opaltelecom co uk>
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 12:08 PM
Subject: Re: Timers


Ian,

Good tutorial books are

1. Havoc Pennington's GTK+ / Gnome Application
Development (New Riders) - you will find an online
copy at andamooka.org.

2. Eric Harlow's Developing Linux Applications with
GTK and Glib (also New Riders Publishing).

> From what I've heard, you wouldn't want to do direct X
programming without a wrapper library like GTK or
Motif, unless you are a masochist :-).  The final
reference for bare X are the manuals (you'll find them
on the O'Reilly website).  Nabajyoti Barkakati has
also published a fairly readable book on X
programming, in which he first covers the principles
of base X programming (ouch!), and then moves on to
Motif.  The name of the book escapes me, but IIRC, it
is a Prentice Hall publication.  Anyway, the copy I
used (a couple of years back) in India was a Prentice
Hall India version.

I'd suggest that you stick to GTK+ however; after a
few years of Win SDK based GUI programming, GTK has
come as a breath of fresh air for me!

Other refernces for GTK are the website (see the FAQ
and the tutorial).  Maybe you'll want to check out
Glade as a RAD tool (glade.gnome.org).

I have used wget to download the relevant GTK
documentation off the website onto my hard disk, so it
is has become a permanent offline reference for me.  I
suggest that you do the same.

Mail me if you need any further info.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,

Krishnan

--- Ian Frawley <ifrawley opaltelecom co uk> wrote:
> PS. could anyone recommend a good book on the
> programming of X cos I am really new to this and I
> am a bit confused with GTK+ GTK--, GDK, GIMP etc.
> etc. I am not sure what I should actually be using.
>
> Thanks
>
> Ian


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