On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 09:15:47PM +0100, John Cupitt wrote: > Hi Bill, > > It sounds like you have some problems with your installation. I'd try > to get a gtk2 "hello world" program going first. Good idea, thanks. > On 7/9/06, William D. Tallman <wtallman@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 1. Code written for Gtk+-1.2 will, or will not, compile and run > > correctly under Gtk-2.0. y/nt.. > > No, some porting is required. As I remember (I went thorough this a > few years ago) getting something that works is pretty easy. Rewriting > to remove dependencies on deprecated widgets (GtkText, GtkCList, etc.) > is more work. At a glance, it would seem necessary to replace all the 'gtk_' with 'g_' just for starters. Haven't looked any deeper yet. > There's a chapter in the GTK manual about migration: > > http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/migrating.html > > With a section on 1.2 -> 2.0: > > http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/gtk-changes-2-0.html Aha, good resources. > > 2. Gtk+-2.4.0 is, or is not, usable for development. y/n. > > All the gtk2 versions are source and binary backwards compatible, so > if you get it working with 2.4 it should work with 2.10. I gathered as much. We'll see how well it works starting with the Hello World code and progressing from there. I would think that Patrick Volkerding would almost be a guarantee of code included in his distro, so I suspect the problems are mine. > > 3. Should I have to redefine a shell variable in order to get the 2.0 > > version to work? y/n. > > No, you should be OK without. Okay, thanks. I appreciate your response! Bill Tallman _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
