Hey, This is the opinion of a fellow newb, but I think it may help. Looking at GTK as it if were C can be very confusing, because GTK doesn't make much sense from a pure-C perspective. GTK is a pseudo-OO language, so thinking of the syntax as a very mangled form of Python or C++ may help. So a call such as (from the GTK tutorial: http://www.gtk.org/tutorial/c39.html) window = gtk_window_new (GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL); Can be thought of as an object creator. A signal: g_signal_connect (G_OBJECT (window), "delete_event", G_CALLBACK (delete_event), NULL); Is sort of like a dynamic method creator. Give the object (window) a new method that activates on a "delete_event" and calls the function delete_event. You said: > I am trying to work my way through the pygtk tutorial but I feel like I am > just memorizing bit and pieces of information without understand the > underlying rules. Honestly, that's fine. As you memorize bits and pieces, the underlying rules will start to come into focus. You'll start to see patterns, and once you know a few patterns you'll be able to look at something unfamiliar and say, "We'll, I know what this bit means, and this looks like that other thing." Anything you still don't recognize is just an API document away. That's my two cents. -Adam > Thanks for your time Mariano. > > I am not sure if I am using the correct terminology here. By syntax I mean > the grammar of the language. Since GTK is written in C I tried reading > through some tutorials on C syntax to get an understanding of how the > language is laid out. I was not really able to see the correlation between > the C syntax and GTK's. > > I am trying to work my way through the pygtk tutorial but I feel like I am > just memorizing bit and pieces of information without understand the > underlying rules. > > The problem here may be that I am a dumbass. I will try to continue > studying. > > Thanks again-Patrick > > > > Mariano Suárez-Alvarez-2 wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 09:55 -0800, NewbieNoob wrote: > >> Hi There > >> > >> I am just learning GTK. > >> > >> I don't quite get the basic "building blocks" of GTK. > >> > >> Is there a reference or tutorial out there that focuses on the syntax in > >> a > >> systematic way? > > > > I don0t really understand what you mean by syntax here, but... > > > > There is a tutorial oriented to C at <http://www.gtk.org/tutorial/> and > > another one, oriented towards python, at > > <http://www.pygtk.org/pygtk2tutorial/index.html>. > > > > (If you google for "gtk tutorial" you get these two links, and the ones > > for Perl, Ruby, and Ocaml among tyhe first few results. Remember: Google > > is your friend) > > > > -- m > > > > > > -- > > Mariano Suárez-Alvarez > > http://www.gnome.org/~mariano > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > gtk-list mailing list > > gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/GTK-help-for-newbie-noob-tf3254228.html#a9047223 > Sent from the Gtk+ - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > gtk-list mailing list > gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list > _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
