Re: libglade frustration redux - back away from the keyboard

2007-02-17 Thread James Scott Jr
Geraldi, I take notice of the following comment. "I give up! I throw in the towel". This is certainly your option, but I will tell you that your experience with libglade is typical for persons who approach programming the wrong way. Let me suggest an alternative that WILL yield different and

Re: libglade frustration redux

2007-02-17 Thread Michael Torrie
On Sat, 2007-02-17 at 13:18 -0500, Gerald I. Evenden wrote: > LOL > > I give up! I throw in the towel. Sorry to hear that. I believe that you could have found GTK programming very rewarding. Note that I did not say "libglade" because I think you had difficulties because you focused on libglade

Re: libglade frustration redux

2007-02-17 Thread Gerald I. Evenden
On Saturday 17 February 2007 12:38 pm, Michael Torrie wrote: ... My comments about information access is addressed on another email. > The example works just as it is supposed to. I get a pulsing progress > bar which, on my GTK theme, is a small blue rectangle that moves back > and forth

Re: libglade frustration redux

2007-02-17 Thread Gerald I. Evenden
On Saturday 17 February 2007 12:16 pm, you wrote: > Gerald I. Evenden wrote on 02/17/2007 05:49 PM: > > On line 72 in module main there is a reference to function > > g_signal_connect. I cannot find any reference to this entry in the index > > Have you tried typing "g_signal_connect site:developer.

Re: libglade frustration redux

2007-02-17 Thread Michael Torrie
On Sat, 2007-02-17 at 11:49 -0500, Gerald I. Evenden wrote: > >From a gnome.org web page there are four example programs from which I will > select example2 as an sample of incomplete/non-existant documentation. See Having addressed your points below, I have to disagree that the documentation is

Re: libglade frustration redux

2007-02-17 Thread Olivier Ramare
Dear all, I've learned how to use gtk by reading this documentation, and other ressources found on the fly on the web; I've found is extremely useful and well done, especially for a growing project. I am no C-guru, not even a computer scientist, and my training is programming is twenty years o

Re: libglade frustration redux

2007-02-17 Thread Gerald I. Evenden
On Friday 16 February 2007 11:17 pm, Michael Torrie wrote: > On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 22:13 -0500, Gerald I. Evenden wrote: > > I believe that much of the above and following issues are reasonably well > > resolved but there are serious problems with the adequacy of some > > sections (glib) but I will

Re: libglade frustration

2007-02-17 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 08:15:13AM +0100, David Nečas (Yeti) wrote: [...] > Definitely, but I'd put only snippets and smaller examples > to the manual itself. I hope we agree it makes no sense to > put the source of gtk-demo-like programs to the manua