lost newbie

captainstan2002 writes:
 > i'm a poor french student who need to make a modeling program using
 > gtk and opengl, so I need th gtkglarea library, and i can't manage
 > to find it...  I'm complete begginner with gtk, i just downloaded
 > dev cpp and devexp, so i can compile some gtk 1.3 on my PC, but I
 > can't find the gtkglarea lib that goes with it.

If you are a GTK+ beginner, why start with the additional burden of
OpenGL mixed in? First learn to write some simple plain GTK+ program,
then add in GtkGLArea.

I'm not sure it's a good idea to start by using dev-cpp (and devexp,
whatever that is). You won't know what really is happening behind the
curtains, and you won't know if problems are caused by dev-cpp or
what. Plain makefiles and a good editor are good enough for me, but
then I am an old fart...

I wouldn't say that GtkGLArea "goes with" GTK+. It is a separately
maintained library, that has been ported to GTK+ at some time. But I
don't know whther the port has been actively maintained as GtkGLArea
and GTK+ has evolved.

 > could anybody help me getting started, telling me where to download 
 > gtkglarea, and how to compile programs using this??

Sorry, don't know if there are any ready-to-use (binary) distributions
for Win32.

--tml