Re: gtkmm capabilities

[Roel Vanhout <roel riks nl>]

Russell Shaw wrote:
> When i was doing difficult M$ stuff with meta-file handling, replies to
> my questions were few, and i could only find snippets of code from few
> thick expensive books.
> With gtk, i can find plenty of *working* source to look at, find plenty
> of mail archives, and even ask developers something. I've got far more
> efficient now than when i was hacking proprietory ware.
> Without some kind of 20k$ licence, answers from proprietory vendors
> are rare, and useful ones even more so.

Ah yes, but that's with MS software. Don't forget that if you want, you 
can still look at all the KDE applications to see how you'd get 
something done in Qt. Again, don't get me wrong, I like gtkmm better 
than I do Qt, but with Qt you get all the benefits of open source PLUS 
great documentation. I personally find it frustrating sometimes with gtk 
(and gtkmm) that the documentation doesn't contain any examples and that 
there is no documentation at all about the more exotic functionality (ie 
writing custom widgets, although that's recently gotten better in gtkmm 
apparently). For open source hobby development, I can afford to spend an 
evening digging through other people's code looking for those 10 lines 
that I actually need, but when I'm writing code for other people, that 
would be an expensive evening.

cheers,

roel