glib and Xlib

2008-06-06 Thread jaafar EL GONNOUNI
Hello; What is *glib *adding that the GTK + compared to *Xlib *? All what is possible with glib with Xlib is feasible, then why create a new library. Best regards. -- EL Gonnouni JaĆ¢far. GSM : +21266682150. ___ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list

Re: glib and Xlib

2008-06-06 Thread Mikael Hallendal
Hi, I don't entirely understand your question. GLib and Xlib aren't really comparable. GLib is a utility library that adds hash tables, lists, IO abstraction, platform abstraction and also an object system used by GTK +. If I misunderstood, could you please elaborate a bit on what you

Finding coordinates and dimensions of check box

2008-06-06 Thread Mitko Haralanov
Hi, I need some help figuring out how to find the coordinates and dimensions of the checkbox of gtk_checkbox widget. What I mean is that I would like to know exactly where the little square where the check mark is places is. I know how to get the coordinates and dimensions of the entire widget

Re: glib and Xlib

2008-06-06 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
jaafar EL GONNOUNI escreveu: Hello; What is *glib *adding that the GTK + compared to *Xlib *? All what is possible with glib with Xlib is feasible, then why create a new library. glib is a library to easy programming with the C language. It contains data structures, utility functions,

Re: glib and Xlib

2008-06-06 Thread Tomas Carnecky
jaafar EL GONNOUNI wrote: Hello; What is *glib *adding that the GTK + compared to *Xlib *? All what is possible with glib with Xlib is feasible, then why create a new library. From http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/stable/glib.html : GLib is a general-purpose utility library, which