Re: [gtk-list] RE: Whoo Hoo!

[Eric Hegstrom <ehegstrom sonoranscanners com>]

While Eric Harlow's book is a good introduction, I think of it as
analagous gateway drug. Great fun to start with, but quickly it becomes
not enough. The coverage is spotty and within days you will either have
given up on Gtk+ or be digging through the docs available at gtk.org.
Then you will have to move on to harder stuff. You friends will consider
intervention as an option when you can no longer communicate in English
cause you have got so deep into the source.


Cheers,
Eric

Steven Hébert wrote:
> 
> > -----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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