Re: GTK not good for newbies?

["David M. Cook" <dave davidcook org>]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 08:44:10AM +0530, Manish Chakravarty wrote:

> I wanted to prgram in C++ as i am more comfortable with it.
> But the gtkmm docs are very sparse and moreover it does not work directly
> with glade

Sure it does, using libglade.

It sounds to me that you're a little overwhelmed right now.  I encourage you
to keep trying.  gtk is a very nice toolkit.  The documentation is much
better than it used to be ;} 

> Also, whenever i ask a question about programming with glade on any of the
> LUG's or mailng list, usually the response is "Dont use Glade-generated
> code, just use the XML file and write your own"

They mean that you should use libglade instead to dynamically load in your
glade-generated widget tree at runtime.  Very easy to use, and it keeps your
code from getting cluttered with layout boilerplate.

http://www.gtkmm.org/gtkmm2/docs/tutorial/html/ch19.html

This is much EASIER than using generated code, and a much better practice.

> So does there exist a decent tutorial for gtk or gtkmm?

I can't believe that you haven't seen the tutorial, linked right off the
main page of www.gtk.org, so I guess you don't like the existing one?

And there's a whole book on the gtkmm site:

http://www.gtkmm.org/gtkmm2/docs/tutorial/html/index.html

There's also a pygtk tutorial:

http://www.moeraki.com/

(Frankly I think programming applications in C or C++ is kind of crazy, but
that's just me.)

Dave Cook