Re: GTK not good for newbies?

[Russell Shaw <rjshaw iprimus com au>]

Manish Chakravarty wrote:
> hi all,
> i am just beginning to understand GTK programming,
> but the documentation is not very helpful
> Just look at Qt's docs... they have a lovely tutorial and GTK's docs are
> nowhere near it.
> 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
> 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"
> So does there exist a decent tutorial for gtk or gtkmm?
> And i do think the authors of gtk and gtkmm should pay more attention to
> documentation now.. for the experienced hackers its ok, but for novices and
> first timers, you are asking them to shift to Qt
> Regards
> Manish

Install Devhelp and the gtk books. You can then search the gtk docs using
keywords which makes things much easier. Do the gtk tutorial too.