Re: perl gtk2 bindings?

2002-11-20 Thread Tom Insam
On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 23:31, Toby Corkindale wrote:

 Ah, that fluidness is what i was afraid of..
 I'm just trying to write some applets that will work against varying versions
 of (future) distros. I figured there wasn't any point writing for the (almost)
 obsolete gtk-1.2 when gtk2 is around and distros are migrating to it.
 
 Would prefer to use Perl, since i understand it's database interface well, but
 looks like maybe C or C++ will be the way I go instead now. I guess it was
 about time i dived into that area anyway..

Ah, now well there perhaps I'm being a little harsh. Pelr-Gtk2 is just
over 2 months old now. That's not a very long time. he fact that it's
got this far already I find very encouraging. I'd play with the alpha
release and see where you get, myself.

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Tom Insam [EMAIL PROTECTED]




Re: perl gtk2 bindings?

2002-11-19 Thread Peter Haworth
On Mon, 18 Nov 2002 15:59:46 -0800, Toby Corkindale wrote:
 I wonder if anyone knows the state of perl bindings for gtk-2?

Undergoing farily active development. Check out [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(http://lists.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-perl-list) for more info.

It looks like you can already write a working program, but the API is
still a bit fluid. I'm still using gtk version one, and not very
actively recently, so this is just my limited understanding of what's
been said on the list.

-- 
Peter Haworth   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Democracy is overrated. I think a meritocracy is needed.
 Perhaps measured by Perl competence.
-- Simon Cozens




Re: perl gtk2 bindings?

2002-11-19 Thread Tom Insam
On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 23:59, Toby Corkindale wrote:
 Hi,
 
 I wonder if anyone knows the state of perl bindings for gtk-2?
 

There's an alpha release, it vaguely works. API is massively changable
right now, though, seems to be a battle between making it behave exactly
like gtk2 in C, and making it behave 'sensibly' from a perl point of
view.

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-perl-list/2002-November/msg00077.html

Discussion on the gtk-perl mailing list.
(http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-perl-list)

But I've used them, and they work, at least.


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Tom Insam [EMAIL PROTECTED]




Re: perl gtk2 bindings?

2002-11-19 Thread Toby Corkindale
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 09:23:40AM +, Tom Insam wrote:
 On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 23:59, Toby Corkindale wrote:
  Hi,
  
  I wonder if anyone knows the state of perl bindings for gtk-2?
  
 
 There's an alpha release, it vaguely works. API is massively changable
 right now, though, seems to be a battle between making it behave exactly
 like gtk2 in C, and making it behave 'sensibly' from a perl point of
 view.

Ah, that fluidness is what i was afraid of..
I'm just trying to write some applets that will work against varying versions
of (future) distros. I figured there wasn't any point writing for the (almost)
obsolete gtk-1.2 when gtk2 is around and distros are migrating to it.

Would prefer to use Perl, since i understand it's database interface well, but
looks like maybe C or C++ will be the way I go instead now. I guess it was
about time i dived into that area anyway..

Thanks for the mail lists, guys,

Toby





perl gtk2 bindings?

2002-11-18 Thread Toby Corkindale
Hi,

I wonder if anyone knows the state of perl bindings for gtk-2?

ta,

tjc