On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 06:41:48AM +0900, Bill Baxter wrote:
On 4/6/07, Bryce Harrington <bryce@...983...> wrote:
Biggest hurdle is that I don't know squat about GTK. If anyone knows good resources for learning GTK I'd appreciate it. Is that GTK book by Havoc Pennington a good investment?
If it's the one published in 1999, it's not worth it because it focuses on Gtk 1.x. I haven't seen good printed material for Gtk 2.x, unfortunately.
Hmm. Ok. Good to know. I almost did an impulse buy yesterday on Amazon. The recent wxPython book is a very nice reference and guide, and even if I don't refer to it that much it's nice to have there by my side when I foray into new or forgotten territory.
Yeah mine turned out to be precisely the right width to prop up my second monitor so both my monitors are even, so it wasn't a complete waste of a purchase. ;-)
For working on existing gtk code in inkscape, you can probably get by just looking up routines at the gtk.org and gtkmm.org websites. The docs are pretty terse but they generally give a fair idea what's going on.
Of course, if you ever get stuck, you can always ask here (or better on the inkscape-devel list), and others can try to help you through it.
Yeh, but I don't want to waste your time asking questions like "what's the spinner widget called in GTK?"
Hehe. There is a useful page on the gtk.org site that lists ALL of the classes sorted by type that's handy for that.
But once you get deeper into things you'll find areas the docs don't cover, and that google doesn't give much help on, which are good to ask on the list.
Also, there is an #inkscape IRC channel that a lot of folks hang out on, which some people find to be a good place to ask development questions in a more informal setting.
Bryce