Re: [gtk-list] Re; Further plans ?

[Eric Harlow <linuxgeek yahoo com>]

I'd enjoy a little more documentation on how to do some of the little
things that I'm having trouble doing - like how to change the label
color.

At any rate, I'm in the middle of writing a book to advance the cause
of GTK over QT, but it's difficult reading through what is essentially
uncommented source code.  The tutorial was good to get me started with
a lot of information, but there just seems to be some stuff I want to
do that I can't seem to get working right due to the lack of docs. 
Does someone want to help me with this book?  :-)  

 -Eric



---Erik Greenwald <br0ke@shells.clipboard.com> wrote:
>
> Preben Randhol wrote:
> 
> > OK here I go again. :)
> >
> > Now that GTK+ 1.0.4 is out and things seem to generally work nice,
> > wouldn't it be a good time to start doing the documentation work
> > before moving on to GTK 1.1? After looking at the GDK source
(haven't
> > looked much at GTK) I found no evidence that the actual source code
> > was documented. Is this so for GTK too? I can understand that
> > documentation is limping behind when one does a lot of coding to
> > release a stable version, but I think that the documentation should
> > catch up before moving on.
> >
> > I fear that if one doesn't have proper documentation things will
soon
> > get quite messy.
> >
> > That said, the tutorial is good, but the reference manual is rather
> > sparsely commented.
> 
> I definitly agree that documentation is a must. The reference guides
for gtk,
> gdk, and glib are full of holes, and the tutorial seems to skate
over some
> issues without much concern. QT's tutorial was mindblowing in that
it included
> interactive 'projects' where you take there example and edit it to
perform how
> you want it to. I found that immensly useful (Was the first widget
kit I had
> serious success with...).  I know writing up the docs isn't nearly
as sexy and
> exciting as writing the code, but without good complete accurate
> documentation, a lot of programmers (primarily ppl new to GUI
programming)
> will be turned off, which is self defeating in the long run. If I
knew more
> about gtk, gdk, and glib, I'd be writing, but I don't, so I can only
struggle
> along, pulling open header files and looking at other ppls source :(
> 	-Erik
> 
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