On 6/14/07, Michael L Torrie <torriem@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 15:44 -0300, Alexandre Moreira wrote: > > > Exactly. If you can keep up with the weird syntax and understand what > > is going on with pointer-intensive C code, I guess you'll do pretty > > well with C Gtk+. I like it better than other bindings, but that is a > > matter of taste. > > > > I believe you should check other options too, Gtkmm seems to be pretty > > good for C++ programmers and I heard good things of Gtk# if you don't > > mind using the Mono runtime. > > > > That said, keep in mind that the amount of code needed to write basic > > stuff in C Gtk+ is pretty big, so you would be happy to write or have > > a few boiler-plate generator scripts (take a look at GOB2 and spuug). Yeah, the problem is I usually write Gtk+ based files in a pure OO design (I often do lots of UML modelling before writing code) so I need to write a ton of GObject classes. > > > libglade is very nice to reduce boiler-plate C code. Actually I use > libglade in all my languages, which right now are C, C++, Python, and > C#. > > If you want to make your own gobject-based class files, either for your > own purposes or to extend a Gtk Widget, GOB2 is nice. Another thing to > check out is vala[1]. vala is getting more and more useful at building > Gobject-based code using a language that's very much like c#, but > compiles directly to C code, allowing your classes to be trivially > wrapped and used in any language that has GTK bindings. Vala is just great. I just with the guys (Jürg and the others) had more support from the rest of the Gtk+ community. I think this would be a great addition to the Gtk+/Gnome development platform. I've been following their development for the last 6 months and I just love it... I disagree with a few things here and there and normally write pure C files just because I'm used to it. People really should take a look at it. > > Python's GTK bindings make it very easy to extend an existing GTK class, > but you can't typically use the extended classes outside of python. > Well that's not completely true. Using the python C extension API, you > can easily use the classes from C or C++, but it's not quite the same > thing as what vala does. > > Michael > > [1] http://live.gnome.org/Vala > > > > > Regards, > > Alexandre Moreira. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > thanks > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
