Re: General info about C++ dev. with gtkmm

[David Sillou <silloudavid yahoo fr>]

Marko a écrit :

> Hello,
> For a while I've been planning to start programming for GNOME/GTK
> in C++, but I have to admit that all the widget competetion (gtk(mm),
> wxWindows, Qt/KDE, FLTK) in Linux generally and GNOME's strong bond
> to C (meaning, no true OOP) in particular are a bit distracting.
> Another issue which kept me back (still does, sort of; I hope I will
> get an encouraging and inspirational reply or two :)) is that, although
> Anjuta is a fine IDE, it supports only gtkmm 2.0. I guess I could
> install
> the older version of gtkmm lib and all the rest, but is it reasonable
> for example to expect that somebody else who wants to use my program is
> going to install an old version of additionall library?
> Personally, I'm used to windows IDEs and I think that that's not a bad
> thing - I don't really want to write UI code by hand.
> I know about glademm, I installed it and I've played a bit with Glade -
> it generates code, ok. But is this code "gtkmm-compatible"? Are glademm
> and libglade actually two separate ways of doing the same? Is it
> possible
> to draw the UI in Glade, and have a project in Anjuta where I'd write
> everything else using gtkmm 2.4? In short, what I want is a as much as
> possible-integrated set of tools which let me draw the UI, specify the
> properties, callbacks etc and have the code for this generated for me.
> > From what I've concluded so far, if Anjuta supported ver. 2.4 everything
> would've been perfect, but since it doesn't, can you give me some
> pointers
> about what are my options?
> Has anyone made a pdf version of gtkmm documentation?
>
> Marko
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>  

Hi,
I did (recently) try  to use code generated by glademm... bad idea.  
Conceptually and practically, the best way is to use libglademm: 
Conceptually, it allows a good degree of independence between ui & core 
code;  Practically, it works :-).

I did never try wxWindows neither FLTK. I did once work on a QT based 
project (under MsW & Linux).I do think that gtmm/gtk 's approach is more 
interesting cause it  provides very powerfull ui engine  at lower cost  
(Qt is sometimes as heavy as MFC).

Concerning IDEs, I personally spent more time  
using/debugging/workarounding  MS Visual Studio/MFC than writing  
gtkmm's ui  code "by hand" (glade/libglade/libglademm helps a lot).


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