I agree about Vala, here's my personal experience, I'm a programmer,
mostly C++
but not a great Linux lover :-P I heard about Vala, I dowloaded the Vala
IDE binaries,
copy pasted the "TreeView with TreeStore" tutorial :
https://live.gnome.org/Vala/GTKSample
That was just incredible to build and run a Gtk+ program in a few
minutes under another system than Linux.
Then I'm learning Gtk+ since January, under Linux this time and make big
progresses with Vala.
Great language and great tutorials, I strongly recommend these.
:-)
On 27/03/2012 21:31, Vlad Volodin wrote:
Hi again,
Oh! I remember more. Sometimes Vala implementation helped me in the past,
when I learned how to create GObject classes, interfaces, public, private
section. Vala looks like C# and might help you to understand how to make
correct GObject classes :)
Best regards,
Vlad
27 марта 2012 г. 21:26 пользователь Tristan Van Berkom<t...@gnome.org>написал:
Hi,
I have to strongly agree with Vlad here, I think the quality of
information that
you can find in print on GTK+ pales in comparison to what you have readily
available on the internet. Of course finding the right material to read
might
be staggering at first, just toy with the apis a little, doing some
experimentation
will quickly set you on the right track.
I strongly recommend that you start with getting a grip on the GObject type
system, read the material that can be found here:
http://developer.gnome.org/gobject/2.32/
GTK+ is basically just GObject based widgetry which deals with the GDK
backend for windowing system interaction... once you get a feel for the
main virtual methods involved on the GtkWidget class then you should
have a pretty good understanding of how GTK+ works (yes, easier said
than done... I just doubt that any book on the shelf is going to get you
there any faster than just experimenting and doing it yourself).
And as Vlad also mentioned, do take a look at some of the more simple
and/or more maintained projects source code, the source code of
Devhelp is small and readable (of course most of the work is done
by the browser embedding, just take a look at how it creates the
preferences
dialog using GtkBuilder and creates a widget class to encapsulate
the preferences module).
Cheers,
-Tristan
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 3:54 AM, Vlad Volodin<vest...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello Howard,
I am afraid to disappoint you, but in this case books will not help much.
GTK+ was changed significantly comparing to GTK+ from the 2007.
The best way to start learning is to read a documentation, play with
demos
and tutorials, examine other non-complex projects. If you are able to
find
a copy of the book, you may read it fast and skip many sentences just to
get a brief idea :)
Best regards,
Vlad
27 марта 2012 г. 20:45 пользователь Christopher Howard<
christopher.how...@frigidcode.com> написал:
Hi. I want to have a thorough and well-formed understanding of how to
use gtk+, which I'm not quite getting from the API. What would be the
best book I can buy right now? The most up-to-date book I see is
Foundations of GTK+ Development (2007) but not having a lot of money to
experiment with, I was hoping to get your recommendations before buying
anything.
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