Re: [ILUG] GTK Programming book

From: Liam Bedford (lbedford at domain lbedford.org)
Date: Wed 05 Sep 2001 - 17:12:22 IST


On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 05:01:10PM +0100, Dave Neary came forth with:
> "John P. Looney" wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 04:17:33PM +0100, Dave Neary mentioned:
> > > *The* gtk+/gnome book is available online at...
> > > http://developer.gnome.org/doc/GGAD/
> >
> > It's not as good as the Wrox one. The offical one spends a good third of
> > the book talking about writing your own widgets.
>
> IMHO, that approach gets you into what you're going to need in terms of
> gtk+ programming - everything from signals, callbacks, gtk's object
> structure and how it implements it, and trapping & using gdk events. And
> saying that it spends half the book at that is a bit harsh :) It's also
> got a fairly comprehensive overview of GNOME's api and the general gtk
> api/widget system. This, along with the more detailed but undescriptive
> API docs, is more than enough to get people right up to speed, methinks.
>
undescriptive API docs would be about right :)

anyone got a useful primer or info on GTKHtml?

it's really annoying.. I can put data in, but I can't append onto the end of
it, or get out what is in there... And the docs are about as good as mine!

L.

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