On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 05:48:59AM +0900, Bill Baxter wrote:
On 4/6/07, Tony Vigil <tjvigil66@...12...> wrote:
Not that it really matters to me either way, but why build from source when you can get it already built for ya? Are you modifying the code to suit your needs?
Yep. I plan to start hacking on the code. 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.
The way I learned was going through the tutorials at gtkmm.org, they were pretty good and didn't take too much time to work through.
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. :-)
Bryce