RE: [gtk-list] Whoo Hoo!

["Steven Hébert" <Steven Hebert bauernike com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: lloy0076 [mailto:lloy0076@senet.com.au]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 1999 12:15 PM
> To: gtk-list@redhat.com
> Subject: [gtk-list] Whoo Hoo!
> 
> 
> 
> Excuse this post!
> 
> When I first heard about linux I thought to myself: I wonder what
> programming libraries exist. After having a search through some URL
> which compared the various libraries I came across three that 
> seemed to
> stand out: xForms, Qt and Gtk+. Perhaps the main reason why I 
> eventually
> chose Gtk+ was that I liked the look and feel of GNOME and the GIMP
> itself; part of the reason was also because I dislike KDE and 
> rumour had
> it that Qt was slow.
> 
> I took my first leap into Gtk+. Quite different - I was very familiar
> with Borland's Object Windows Library, Visual Component Library and am
> slightly familiar with the MFC. I wasn't able to work out terribly
> easily how to get a window or such up in Gtk+ so I shelved it for a
> while and discovered the online tutorial (as listed on the 
> home page ).
> The tutorial appears to be OK but it is online and my printer 
> is dead. I
> don't know what it is but I learn much faster if I can curl up in bed
> late at night and just read away from the computer and the Internet.
> 
> Then I chanced upon a 40% discounted "Developing Linux 
> Applications with
> Gtk+ and GDK" book by Eric Harlow (New Riders part of the Macmillan
> publishing group). It was well written, well thought out, basic enough
> for total beginners like me but it looks like it's got enough info to
> satisfy the more technically minded as well.

That is the book that made me interested in GTK, It is great... I suggested
it to a few people asking me about Linux  programming, thay all liked it.
> 
> Heh! It's so painfully easy. Whilst programming any GUI in C 
> is, well, a
> little tedious on the fingers, it's not too difficult to work out what
> is happening and how. I can't believe it. I'm now shifting 
> all my Linux
> development from Java to Gtk+....and who knows where I'll go 
> from here!
> 
> DL
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