Re: Gnome Desktop Only

Miloslav Trmac wrote:
> The *big* one is making GNOME developer-friendly, if it is possible at
> all. If you know C, look up how to get a current value of GtkOptionMenu

Is there a C interface for QT and/or KDE? I thought it required
C++? I can us GTK-- and get a C++ interface to GTK+.

I'd use Gtk::OptionMenu methods to get_menu() and remove_menu(),
and probably use set_menu() to add the new menu.

Following the inheritence for a Gtk::Menu, you find the append(),
prepend(), and insert() methods to create the menu to use in set_menu()
above.

This is in the docs from gtkmm(-devel)-1.2.10 and took me 5 minutes
to find. I don't normaly program for X.

Now for the Gtk+ C interface, you probably right. But, take a look
at other X11 C interfaces. There are just about as bad, one of
the reasons I don't programm for X.

> GTK+, libgnomeui etc. are excellent C libraries and I also poke
> at object internals when writing in C, but at the scale of the
> GNOME libraries, this means that in order to be able to write
> a good application you have to spent an enormous (comparatively
> to the size of the program) amount of time understanding the libraries.

For C, the interface is similar, just uses the typical
X11 object style. Lots of info, crossreferenced, in
/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/gtk/

	-Thomas