[ILUG] athena widget set: butt ugly.

[Fowler]

kevin lyda wrote:
> 
> ok, i have a soft spot in my heart for the athena widgets - compared to
> straight xlib it was very nice.  but having xmessage pop up on a gnome
> desktop is just, well, sad.
> 
> i'd be interested in trying to write gtkmessage but i'm not sure where
> to start.  in the x world there used to be this x skeleton program, is
> there a similar beast for gtk?  you know, here's your makefile, a main.c
> that loads the bare minimum headers, initialises some data structures,
> plays with xlib related commandline args, etc.
> 
> kevin
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Hi Kevin,
	check out glade -(www.glade.org AFAIR) its an interface builder for GTK which will
let you set up widgets like VC++ and then dump the source code. Theres a full html
tutorial at www.gtk.org for GTK thats quite good - also availabe as a tgz.
	
	hope this helps,
			Colin Fowler