Re: libglade frustration redux

2007-02-20 Thread Freddie Unpenstein
Especially since glade is pushing the use of libglade as THE way to incorporate glade-produced layouts into applications, libglade should be packaged so as to encourage just that. Not make it hard for application developers to figure out how to use it. In any case, this is more an issue

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 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

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

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 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 and

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

2007-02-16 Thread Michael Torrie
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 address these to a specific issue on a subsequent email I'm not

libglade frustration redux

2007-02-15 Thread Gerald I. Evenden
A the originator of this thread I will rephrase my problems and make a larger scale complaint. 1. My original complaint was compile/linking glade output. Thanks to M. Torrie this problem was nicely solved and I can compile/link several examples from various sources. 2. A side thread

Re: libglade frustration redux

2007-02-15 Thread Tristan Van Berkom
On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 13:46 -0500, Gerald I. Evenden wrote: [...] I would love to be proved wrong about libglade documentation so please flame me if I am and point out my sins. Even though I am now able to compile/link libglade code I find that I am now stymied by lack of documentation on

Re: libglade frustration redux

2007-02-15 Thread Michael L Torrie
On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 13:46 -0500, Gerald I. Evenden wrote: A the originator of this thread I will rephrase my problems and make a larger scale complaint. 1. My original complaint was compile/linking glade output. Thanks to M. Torrie this problem was nicely solved and I can compile/link

Re: libglade frustration redux

2007-02-15 Thread Brian J. Tarricone
Gerald I. Evenden wrote: 2. A side thread suggested that in order to understand the usage of a system like libglade one should study the source. I think that's pretty standard practice where any open source library/development system is concerned. Having full reference documentation,