Re: Help me I bought a GTK+ 1.2 book now!!!

["Jamiil Abduqadir" <jalqadir gmail com>]

I have the book, and it is definitely out-dated. However, you could use it 
as a good introductory, or when you sit on the can and need something to 
read. Other than that you will be better off reading the documentation that 
comes with the library.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Necas (Yeti)" <yeti physics muni cz>
To: <gtk-list gnome org>
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 6:03 AM
Subject: Re: Help me I bought a GTK+ 1.2 book now!!!


> On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 08:27:58AM +0530, Madhusudan C.S wrote:
> >           I am a newcomer to GTK+ world. Inorder to learn GTK+ I bought a
> > book titles "Sams Teach Yourself GTK+ in 21 days" in a local book stores.
> > Unfortunately I came to know that the book is based on GTK+ 1.2.6 and not 
> > on
> > GTK+ 2.x which has become the standard for GTK+ development from past 4-5
> > years. But since I am a beginner I don't have any idea of how GTK 1.2.6 
> > is
> > different from current 2.x. I don't even know whether I have to read from
> > that book or not.
>
> I don't know this book.   Generally, overall concepts, such
> as how widgets are packed into boxes or that you connect
> callbacks to signals in order to react to changes, have not
> changed, but many widgets (selectors; list, tree and text
> views; combo boxes, ...) were superseded by more modern
> alternatives.
>
> Also the switch from GtkType to GType and generally moving
> core functionality from Gtk+ to GLib in 2.x caused lots of
> name and preferred style changes.
>
> You can probably use the book, but always look at the
> current API reference whether the thing described is not
> deprecated -- and if it is, you will find a pointer to its
> replacement there.  Also consult the on-line Gtk+ 2.0
> tutorial (which is unfortunately already a bit oudated too).
>
> >          So can someone explain me how GTK+ 1.2 is different from 2.x and
> > how its different from beginners point of view.
>
> I suppose you are aware of
> http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/migrating.html
>
> > Also can I learn from that
> > book initially atleast so that I will not have any problems when I 
> > actually
> > start coding i.e while compiling.
>
> Gtk+ 1.2 code would mostly work in 2.x, but it would be
> a bad code you don't want to [learn to] write nowadays.
>
> Yeti
>
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