Re: GTK Perl Demo

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Jul 23, 2005, at 1:48 PM, Gábor Szabó wrote:

> Some time ago I was talking about a downloadable set of examples/ 
> tutorials/demo
> whatever you call it.
>
> Finally I got around and put together a first version.
> If you are interested looking at it you can dowload it from here:
>
> http://www.szabgab.com/gtk2.html

nifty!

> You comments are welcome!

The color snooper doesn't work --- it complains on the console that  
it needs an argument.

gtk-demo allows you to run scripts by activating their rows in the  
treeview (double-clicking or pressing enter).  It also allows you to  
run more than one demo at a time.  Both of those features would be  
handy.  (Since you can edit the script, it would be rather easy for a  
user to hose the demo.)

Mnemonics and stock icons would spruce up the main window a bit.

If you set the shadow type on the two scrolled windows to "in", the  
window will look a little better.

The scrolled windows should both be set to automatic on both  
directions; set a default size for the toplevel window to account for  
that; and use an HPaned instead of an HBox to contain the tree and  
text -- that gives the user more control over the size and position.

It wasn't immediately obvious that i could edit the text to modify  
and run the samples.  Some explanatory text and a "revert" button  
would be helpful.  The feature is a really awesome idea, though.

Instead of the "List Widgets" button that turns into a "List  
Examples" button, you could place both trees into a notebook.

If you add support for Gtk2::SourceView for syntax highlighting,  
please be sure to make it optional.  (Not very hard to do.)




--
Examples really shouldn't include unexploded ordnance.
  -- Joe Smith, referring to an example program i wrote.