Re: General tips about GTK+ programming

[Vlad Volodin <vest 84 gmail com>]

Hi Tomaz,
I have to rewrite my game, using some general technique, in other
words I'm a bit tied with this. So, I have to rewrite my code to GTK,
and also I want to learn how to program with it :)
Vlad Volodin

2009/3/3 Tomaz Canabrava <tumaix gmail com>:
> from what I'v been into, it's better to write object oriented software
> using object oriented programming languages. I know some in this list
> dislikes c++ , but it's more sane than use pointers and simulations of
> classes.
> you will not learn how to program better by converting your gtkmm code
> to gtk, your code will be larger and will do the same thing.
>
> On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 7:43 AM, Vlad Volodin <vest 84 gmail com> wrote:
> > Hello, everybody
> >
> > I'm a new programming in GTK+ (especially under C). Before, I've used
> > GTKmm with C++ style, and everything was clear till now. I've read
> > many GTK sources, made by people, and found, that there isn't any
> > general rule of GUI program creation. Let me explain, what I want.
> >
> > In GTKmm, I've created a class (Gtk::Window), make public and private
> > methods, also put there some data, I want to display (that data was
> > wrapped inside other classes and etc). I didn't use global variables.
> > If I need to show options dialog window, I've created derived class
> > (OptionsWindow), and use it, for example in MainWindow class. So, I
> > think it helps me with navigating inside my sources and make the code
> > clearer. Main function was too little: i18n, gtkinit, mainwindow
> > creation, gtkrun.
> >
> > In GTK world, there are no specific rules, or maybe I didn't find good
> > one. I saw sources larger than 100-200 kb. They also contains all the
> > windows, signals, internal data. Some of them has functions like "void
> > create_gui();", other create main windows as usual "GtkWidget*
> > create_main_window()".
> >
> > I've even read some books and tutorials about GTK. And there are also
> > one file, which creates all, programmer needed. Yes, I saw some
> > examples named as "Widget Creation". But nobody creates window
> > widgets. Maybe you know why?
> >
> > And the last question, for example, I have data, I want to use in GUI.
> > How should I write or manipulate with it? Should I create it as
> > structure, derived from GObject? or I have to use global (or static)
> > objects. and where should I initialize it?
> >
> > I hope I didn't make you boring. Thank everybody in advance, who will
> > help me with advices, tips, maybe links and clear sources. I want to
> > have a general view of GTK programming and rewrite my C++ game made by
> > GTKmm to GTK, and improve programming skills.
> >
> > Thank you again
> > Vlad Volodin
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