Re: gtk installation problems configure: error: X development libraries not found

2007-02-15 Thread Yeti
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 10:46:32AM +0530, arthy geraldin wrote: > I'm new to gtk and this is the first time I'm installing it.I've installed > all the dependencies for gtk. Is it absolutely necessary to install Gtk+ from source code? Doesn't Gtk+ packages exist for your system? > When I'm trying

spec for accelerator string

2007-02-15 Thread Dan McMahill
quoting from: http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/gtk-Keyboard-Accelerators.html#gtk-accelerator-parse "Parses a string representing an accelerator. The format looks like "a" or "F1" or "z" (the last one is for key release). The parser is fairly liberal and allows lower or upper case,

gtk installation problems configure: error: X development libraries not found

2007-02-15 Thread arthy geraldin
Hello, I'm new to gtk and this is the first time I'm installing it.I've installed all the dependencies for gtk. When I'm trying to give a ./configure inside the gtk+-2.10.0 directory I get the following error. checking return type of signal handlers... (cached) void checking for x86 platform.

GtkContainers, GtkFixed, signals, and The Way

2007-02-15 Thread v4r4n
I'd really like to implement this old Window Interface library based on Motif with GtkBoxes, but I simply cannot accurately predict when the application code needs an hbox or a vbox, or switch an old hbox to a vbox. The library I'm trying to implement with Gtk must be able to put boxes within boxes

Re: libglade frustration redux

2007-02-15 Thread Brian J. Tarricone
Gerald I. Evenden wrote: > 2. A side thread suggested that in order to understand the usage of a system > like libglade one should study the source. I think that's pretty standard practice where any open source library/development system is concerned. Having full reference documentation, tutori

Re: libglade frustration redux

2007-02-15 Thread Michael L Torrie
I have made a major mistake here. Apparently google is indexing the old libglade-1.0 stuff rather than the new stuff. The 2.0 docs are here: http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/libglade/index.html Note that for any gnome-related library, you can find the api and reference docs at: http://de

Re: libglade frustration redux

2007-02-15 Thread Michael L Torrie
On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 13:46 -0500, Gerald I. Evenden wrote: > A the originator of this thread I will rephrase my problems and make a larger > scale complaint. > > 1. My original complaint was compile/linking glade output. Thanks to M. > Torrie this problem was nicely solved and I can compile/li

Re: libglade frustration redux

2007-02-15 Thread Tristan Van Berkom
On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 13:46 -0500, Gerald I. Evenden wrote: [...] > I would love to be proved wrong about libglade documentation so please flame > me if I am and point out my sins. Even though I am now able to compile/link > libglade code I find that I am now stymied by lack of documentation on

libglade frustration redux

2007-02-15 Thread Gerald I. Evenden
A the originator of this thread I will rephrase my problems and make a larger scale complaint. 1. My original complaint was compile/linking glade output. Thanks to M. Torrie this problem was nicely solved and I can compile/link several examples from various sources. 2. A side thread suggested

Re: GObject docs improvements

2007-02-15 Thread Daniel Espinosa
May be a complete example on how put all together will be usefull 2007/2/14, David Nečas (Yeti) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 02:52:02PM -0600, Daniel Espinosa wrote: > > 1) The text "when they register a closure to be invoked upon the > > signal emission" is not clear what i

Re: libglade frustration

2007-02-15 Thread Tristan Van Berkom
On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 05:55 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] > You took it back to the point. I think metaphors don't help much here. > The question is whether usage examples belong to the documentation or > not. As we see, this question is debatable. Personally, I'd side clearly > with the "y

Re: libglade frustration

2007-02-15 Thread Tristan Van Berkom
On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 14:44 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] > The users manual should be provided with every copy of a packaged > distribution. The user's manual should provide sufficient instruction > on how to operate libglade. If a developer finds himself needing to > refer to the source