On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 09:23 -0500, John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
> C's not flat. Use gobject or at least structs to organize your code.
> Never use globals and only use static variables sparingly. Look how
> other large projects organize their code. Open Source is good in that
> way. Usually large apps with have a main gobject that acts as a factory
> for the app. Sample main:
>
> int
> main (int argc, char *argv[])
> {
> MyApp *app;
>
> app = my_app_new();
>
> gtk_main();
> }
>
> MyApp would be a gobject that holds all the widgets you care about
> manipulating and pointers to any other data needed by parts of the
> program. The reference to this object would be passed to callbacks as
> userdata. You also don't need to hold the glade widget tree in memory
> if you do things this way. Hope this helps.
A good example of this style of programming is Gossip:
http://www.imendio.com/projects/gossip/
I am sure there are others, but I found the Gossip code quite easy to
read.
Keith.
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