Thanks Adam That was extremely helpful and encouraging. I printed your response, I willkeep it with my notes. Thanks for looking after this Newbie noob-Patrick Adam Bloom-3 wrote:> > 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> > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/GTK-help-for-newbie-noob-tf3254228.html#a9048739Sent from the Gtk+ - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________gtk-list mailing listgtk-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
