Re: [gtk-list] Re: VDK & Gtk--, was: yet another gtk+ C++ wrapper

[Christof Petig <christof petig wtal de>]

Mario Motta wrote:

> On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, Christof Petig wrote:
> >Hi you,
> >
> >I'd like to comment on this topic.
> >
> >I had a first look at VDK. It has many examples, the documentation is brief
> >(and looks ugly within netscape) but there. The examples look too colourful for
> >Gtk-Apps (both pro and con).
>
> wich version did you look ? 0.1 was very incomplete, version 0.2 is much more
> near the first alpha (0.3 that will be released next).
> Admittely html docs are bad (now Ionut Borcoman is rewriting the tutorial into a
> more fashioned way) but there is also a 60 pages ps version.

I looked at 0.2 (of course). I've never seen so much pictures and colours in an
gtk* example.

> >The signal number #defines look a bit odd to me (how can anyone in his sane
> > mind do this within an OO environment ...) ;-)
>
> if you mean macro expansion of signal/event connection
> this is an interesting
> tech discussion,  it took me about 3 days to decide between macros expansion
> and a plain connecting call like gtk-- does. After some trials I finally decided
> to macros mainly because is an easy way to implement fast look-up static binding
> template table and response handler. Better choices could be possible, but this
> one is'nt so "odd" or rather well known on event-driving programming.

What looked insane to me was the#define SIG_A 2001
#define SIG_B 2002
 ....
I gave up such a coding style two years ago (you some time certainly duplicate some
numbers by chance).

> do you know how many are involved in VDK devel ?

No.

> agreed (even if i do not know wxWindows/Gtk, not yet released i guess)

It's not only released but very popular.

> >Christof (maintainer of glade--)
> >
> >PS: Any volunteers for glade->VDK? I offer my help.
> if only it were true !

???? it???

Christof