Feedback on my Win32 GTK+ Experience

2007-11-24 Thread Micah Carrick
Hey everyone. I built a little GTK+/ Libglade project on Win32 over this holiday primarily just so I knew how to do it. However, I also have a project in the queue which will require this knowledge. I'm going over my installation notes getting ready to put them up on my blog, however, I was hop

Re: C vs C++ for GTK

2007-11-24 Thread Patrick
Patrick wrote: > Hi Allin > > I have no interest in QT. > > Your points are very strong. > > If most of the free/libre software is in C then I better stick with C, > especially if learning C++ does not guarantee an understanding of > plain C. > > Thanks very much for your help, it's easy to keep

Re: C vs C++ for GTK

2007-11-24 Thread Allin Cottrell
On Sat, 24 Nov 2007, Patrick wrote: > Sorry for the flame war bait, I know how passionate language debates > get but I need some guidance. I am using PyGTK right now and I am happy > with it, but a day is coming soon were the speed limitations and > less-then-straight-forward threading will be

Re: C vs C++ for GTK

2007-11-24 Thread Chris Sparks
Not trying to start a language flame war but I always prefer Ada. And no it hasn't gone away either! ;-) Chris > Patrick wrote: > >> is C++ to complicated? >> > C++ is more complex than C, and thus harder to fully understand. > > >> Is C going out of date? >> > No, it's still be

Re: C vs C++ for GTK

2007-11-24 Thread Tomas Carnecky
Patrick wrote: > is C++ to complicated? C++ is more complex than C, and thus harder to fully understand. > Is C going out of date? No, it's still being used for lots of projects. > Am I limited with C? No, there are very few features in C++ that are hard/impossible to imitate in C, but you usual

C vs C++ for GTK

2007-11-24 Thread Patrick
Hi Everyone. Sorry for the flame war bait, I know how passionate language debates get but I need some guidance. I am using PyGTK right now and I am happy with it, but a day is coming soon were the speed limitations and less-then-straight-forward threading will be an issue. I figure my next mo

Re: memory leak in gtk

2007-11-24 Thread Mike
Junior Polegato - GTK+ & GTKmm wrote: > Vincent Torri escreveu: >> On Sat, 24 Nov 2007, Junior Polegato - GTK+ & GTKmm wrote: >>> Vincent Torri escreveu: On Sat, 24 Nov 2007, Michael Lamothe wrote: >> From what I've heard about memory leaking, this is not unique to the > GTK library.

GLib 2.14.4 released

2007-11-24 Thread Matthias Clasen
GLib 2.14.4 is now available for download at: ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/glib/2.14/ http://download.gnome.org/sources/glib/2.14/ glib-2.14.4.tar.bz2 md5sum: 7ee7874108cbe9ea7fff1f4ab3389ce8 glib-2.14.4.tar.gzmd5sum: 3159b8723ef323b40134c57b44029bda This is a bug fix release in the 2.14 series

Re: {Spam?} Re: {Spam?} Re: memory leak in gtk

2007-11-24 Thread Junior Polegato - GTK+ & GTKmm
Vincent Torri escreveu: > On Sat, 24 Nov 2007, Junior Polegato - GTK+ & GTKmm wrote: >> Vincent Torri escreveu: >>> On Sat, 24 Nov 2007, Michael Lamothe wrote: > From what I've heard about memory leaking, this is not unique to the GTK library. If the rumours are correct, applications like

Re: {Spam?} Re: {Spam?} Re: memory leak in gtk

2007-11-24 Thread Vincent Torri
On Sat, 24 Nov 2007, Junior Polegato - GTK+ & GTKmm wrote: > Vincent Torri escreveu: >> On Sat, 24 Nov 2007, Michael Lamothe wrote: >> From what I've heard about memory leaking, this is not unique to the >>> GTK library. If the rumours are correct, applications like `ls` are >>> not

Re: {Spam?} Re: memory leak in gtk

2007-11-24 Thread Junior Polegato - GTK+ & GTKmm
Vincent Torri escreveu: > On Sat, 24 Nov 2007, Michael Lamothe wrote: > >>> From what I've heard about memory leaking, this is not unique to the >>> >> GTK library. If the rumours are correct, applications like `ls` are >> notorious for leaking memory, safe in the knowledge that the OS w

Re: {Spam?} Re: memory leak in gtk

2007-11-24 Thread Vincent Torri
On Sat, 24 Nov 2007, Michael Lamothe wrote: >> From what I've heard about memory leaking, this is not unique to the > GTK library. If the rumours are correct, applications like `ls` are > notorious for leaking memory, safe in the knowledge that the OS will > clean up after them. and if someone