Re: Is there a developer wiki for gtk?

[Stevie Griffiths <stevie craig griffiths gmail com>]

Hi, thanks for the response Tristian it helped me move from untrusting to
cautious optimism.

I'll ask my questions and attempt to be clear and thoughtful of other
peoples time.

However, I really would be interested in a gtk app developer wiki.

Stevie.
On 27/11/2011 10:18 PM, "Tristan Van Berkom" <tvb gnome org> wrote:
> Hi,
>    Please feel free to ask newbie or advanced questions on this list.
>
> I have found this list very helpful over the years, when I started using
this
> list it was much much more of an "elitist" society of RTFM-like responses.
>
> Remember that nobody is required to respond to questions (I dont know
> of any paid positions for that sort of thing, it's all volunteer work).
>
> If you ask a question that sounds like a demand, you will certainly get
> a cold response if you get any response at all, because as I mentioned
> above, anyone who answers your question is doing it on their own time.
>
> A clear subject line is always very important, sometimes even finding
> the right way to form your question will give you the answer before
> sending the email (in my first years I can remember discarding almost
> half of my emails which were just questions which I had not yet phrased
> properly).
>
> Showing/proving that you have done your part of the research and have hit
> a dead-end helps to earn you sympathy points.
>
> For your particular question about those "MacOS button-group-thingies",
> those are implemented in GTK+-3 using CSS.
>
> I can't tell you the exact details because I have not used that exact
feature
> myself.
>
> I expect that it works specifically for GtkButtons inside a GtkButtonBox,
> the GtkButtonBox will apply pseudo classes to the first and last of its
> children (allowing you to style them differently, i.e. with the round
endings).
> So, all you need to do is find out if it is indeed the GtkButtonBox which
> implements this pseudo-classing of it's children, or if it can be done
with
> a simple GtkBox... then you need to find out the actual name of the
> pseudo-class (i.e. is it called "first-child" and "last-child" ?).
>
> Finally you need to cook up the right css to say that "first-child"
children
> of a "GtkButtonBox" get a specific style (probably you will provide a
9-slice
> image for that).
>
> Good luck and welcome to our friendly list.
>
> Cheers,
>          -Tristan