Re: [glade--]Simple tutorial

John Motsweng wrote:
> Please don't shoot me, because I am just the messenger. It is just hard 
> to break into glademm and the recurring question about accessing widgets 
> is not a bug or a nuisance, but an expression of genuine interest.
> 
> I bet it is easy to move on to gtkmm if you come from gtk, but I can't 
> take that route. I can't turn away, because I never learned C and my C++ 
> is just taking shape. All I want to achieve for now is a simple program 
> with a button, an entry and a label. On the button click the contents 
> should be send to standard out and to the label. A second part could 
> maybe do a little string manipulation, concatenation type of thing.

Attached. Simply do "cd tutorial; glade-- tutorial.glade ; ./autogen.sh 
; make ; src/tutorial". It should be really obvious what was needed to 
create the glade file with glade-2 - isn't it?

> 
> Here's the deal. If anybody on this list could mail me some commented 
> code with these three little widgets I will study it and write a good 
> tutorial adding the other little parts I already understand. I can then 
> send it to one of the more knowledgeable members for review and comment 
> and develop a tutorial as I learn, for the benefit of all us newbies.

I really think that two liners do not need comments (with approx. 40 
chars a line).

Gtkmm.org has a really good documentation about the widget and their 
methods.

> Maybe I should go as far as promise that I am willing to write a few 
> more tutorials as I progress as long as somebody who knows can guide me 
> a little.

No problem for me ;-)

    Christof