Re: [gtkmm] ANNOUNCE: gtkmm 2.0.0



Congratulations to everyone that made it possible.

--
Paulo Pinto

----- Original Message -----
From: "Murray Cumming" <murrayc t-online de>
To: "gtkmm-list" <gtkmm-list gnome org>; "gnome-announce"
<gnome-announce-list gnome org>
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 6:42 PM
Subject: [gtkmm] ANNOUNCE: gtkmm 2.0.0


> *** gtkmm2
>
> gtkmm provides a C++ interface to GTK+. gtkmm2 wraps GTK+ 2.
> http://www.gtkmm.org
>
> After just over a year of intense coding, testing, and documenting, the
> gtkmm2 API is now binary frozen. As well as including all of the
> improvements in GTK+ 2, gtkmm2 offers an improved, simplified, and more
complete
> API in comparison to gtkmm 1.2. If you like C++ then we think you'll like
it, and
> we think it's a reason to like C++.
>
>
> *** Credits
>
> gtkmm2 is this good only because of the effort and care of these
developers.
> Without any one of these people, gtkmm2 would be noticeably less wonderful
> than it is.
>
> Karl Nelson
>   (initial code, mythical figure, exception-handling, others)
> Murray Cumming
>   (workhorse, cheerleader, organiser, blame-taker)
> Daniel Elstner
>   (merciless refactorer, standards expert,
>    solver of unsolvable problems, loser of sleep)
> Martin Schulze (Atk, Pango, Gdk API review and completion. Much more)
> Gergo Erdi (Pango API review, ProgressBar. Much more)
> Michael v. Szombathely (SUN Forte compiler support, test cases)
> Cedric Gustin (Win32 support)
> Andreas Holzmann (Menu API. Much more)
> Michael Babcock (pack_start)
> Bassoukos Tassos (exceptions, glibmm)
> Bradley Bell
> Patrick Crosby
> Jarek Dukat (constness, gcc 3.x support)
> Liam Girdwood
> Michael Koziarski
> Ole Laursen
> Elke Meier
> Marcelo E. Magallo
> Andrew E Makeev
> Mike McEwan
> Christian Meyer (documentation)
> Paolo Pinto (documentation)
> Morten Brix Pedersen
> Christof Petig (Menu fixes)
> Stephan Puchegger (glibmm)
> Alain Rouge
> Daniel Sundberg
> Naofumi Yasufuku (Win32 support)
> Matthew Walton (TreeView demos)
>
> and
> James Henstridge (Python defs generation and docs extraction)
> Havoc Pennington (for writing an easily-wrappable GtkTextBuffer API)
> Valgrind (lifetime/memory fixes): http://developer.kde.org/~sewardj/
>
> And all the bug reporters and testers.
>
>
> *** Changes
>
> The CHANGES file describes some of the more significant differences
> compared to gtkmm 1.2:
> http://cvs.gnome.org/lxr/source/gtkmm-root/base/CHANGES
>
>
> *** Changes since gtkmm 1.3.26:
>
> 2.0.0
>
> * gcc now builds even with -Werror warnings. (Daniel Elstner)
> * Various low-level cleanups/improvements· (Daniel Elstner)
> * SUN-specific workarounds removed now that SUN fixed their
>   compiler (Michael v. Szombathely)
>
> API Changes:
> * Gtk::Box::pack_start() and pack_end():
>   removed default argument values for the bool, bool overloads,
>   to improve type-safety of the more useful PackOptions overload.
>   (Daniel Elstner)
> * Gtk::Menu_Helpers::StockMenuElems can be used to create
>   submenus. (Christof Pettig)
> * Gtk::AspectFrame: Added a constructor that uses AlignmentEnum.
>   (Murray Cumming)
> * Some minor Pango API corrections (Daniel Elstner)
> * Glib::ustring::clear(): Added. (Daniel Elstner)
> * Glib::Ascii::tolower() and Glib::Ascii::toupper() added.
>   (Daniel Elstner)
>
>
> Documentation:
> * Book:
>     Updated almost all widget-specific sections.
>     Used links to reference docs and to example source code.
>     Added screenshots.
> * FAQ: Updated and converted to DocBook XML.
> * examples: Rewrote many examples - see examples/book/
>   (Murray Cumming)
> * Glib::ustring non-standard methods documented.
>   (Daniel Elstner)
>
>
> *** Download
>
> http://www.gtkmm.org/download.shtml
>
> You will need libsigc++ 1.2, available here:
> https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1970
>
>
> *** Development
>
> There is ongoing discussion on the mailing list:
> http://gtkmm.sourceforge.net/mailinglist.html
> and in the #c++ channel on irc.gnome.org
>
> --
> Murray Cumming
> murrayc usa net
> www.murrayc.com
>
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