Re: Step One. Eeks what to do next

Dark Elf writes:
 > i don't know if it is windows specific or not

Most probably not.

 >       button = gtk_button_new_with_label ("Hello World");
 > 
 > ok this should make a button with hello world written on it. Why doesn't 
 > it. I mean it makes the button but does not display the text.
 > how can i fix it

Hard to say with just that one line. There might be lots of things
wrong in your program. Did you have a look at the example programs,
and start by modifying those?

 > glade produces code which  has the _("hello world") what does this
 > mean.

The _ preprocessor macro is commonly used in Unixish software sources
to indicate strings that could be translated into other
languages. Typically it is defined in a application-specific header
file called "something-intl.h" like this:

#ifdef ENABLE_NLS 
#define _(string) gettext(string)
#else
#define _(string) (string)
#endif

If you don't want to think of internationalisation at this point, just
use the second definition above.

 > in windows it shows an error.

Is the _ macro defined?

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