Re: gtkmm/glade tutorial?

["Jonathon Jongsma" <jonathon jongsma gmail com>]

On 7/20/06, Greg Schussman <schussman slac stanford edu> wrote:
>  Hi.
>
>  I want to get started with gtkmm together with libglademm.   I'm looking at
> the page:
>
>    http://www.gtkmm.org/
>
>  which says:
>
>    "... You can create user interfaces either in code or with the Glade User
> Interface designer, using libglademm. There's extensive documentation,
> including API reference and a tutorial."
>  But following the "extensive documentation" link, and searching for
> "tutorial" gives no links.

Well, the "extensive documentation" claim was regarding documentation
in general, not specifically about using libglademm, but I can see how
it might be read that way :)

> links (for about 4 hours now).  But I seem to hit several dead ends: finding
> only C (not C++) examples, or examples which are  C++ but don't use
> libglademm, or finding c++ snippets which do use libglademm but aren't
> complete enough examples to actually compile and run.   In the manual at:
>
>
> http://www.gtkmm.org/docs/gtkmm-2.4/docs/tutorial/html/ch21s02.html
>
>  I see:
>
>    "The basic example in the libglademm package shows how to load a Glade
> file at runtime and access the widgets with libglademm."
>
>  which sounds exactly like what I'm looking for, but
>
>    %rpm -qa | grep -i glade
>
>  gives me:
>
>    libglade-devel-0.17-16.2.1
>    libglade2-devel-2.5.1-4.fc5.1
>    libglademm24-devel-2.6.2-1
>    glade2-2.12.1-2
>    libglade-0.17-16.2.1
>    libglademm24-2.6.2-1
>    libglade2-2.5.1-4.fc5.1
>    libglade2-debuginfo-2.5.1-4.fc5.1
>
>  and exhaustively perusing that list via:
>
>    rpm -ql  package_with_glade_in_its_name
>
>  says nothing about basic (with the exception of window-palette-basic.png in
> glade2-2.12.1-2).
>  Any help would be tremendously appreciated!

I don't know if redhat / fedora (or whatever RPM-based distro you're
using) actually installs the examples with the libglademm rpm or not
(I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't -- Ubuntu / Debian doesn't),
so you might need to get them from the libglademm source.

You can browse the libglademm examples in CVS here:
http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gnomemm/libglademm/examples/

or you can just download the libglademm source package ( e.g. from
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/bindings/2.14/2.14.2/sources/ ) if you
want to compilable files to play with.

have fun!

--
jonner