Re: Usage of GTK+ headers

[Tristan Van Berkom <tvb gnome org>]

Banginwar, Rajesh wrote:
> Hello,
>
>             Many of the GTK+ libraries have one or more top level header
> files. E.g. Glib has glib.h, gdk-pixbuf has two gdk-data.h and
> gdk-pixbuf.h and so on... My question is about what applications
> typically use? Do they use just the top level header only? Or is it ok
> to use the specific header file as needed e.g. gtk/gtkstyle.h?

    You should include the header indicated on the API reference,
note that if you decide to include your preffered header, a later
release may not include that header, but be compatible in every
other way, generally; there will always be a glib.h that will give
you access to the glib API.

Cheers,
                                -Tristan