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[gtk-list] Re: New projects
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Otto Hammersmith)
Wed Jun 25 08:58:20 1997
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 08:56:50 -0400
From: Otto Hammersmith <otto@redhat.com>
To: gtk-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <54soy697hs.fsf@wisdom.m.enhanced.com>; from Camm Maguire on Wed, Jun 25, 1997 at 08:45:03AM -0400
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On Wed, Jun 25, 1997 at 08:45:03AM -0400, Camm Maguire wrote:
> Greetings! I am totally new to X-Wiindow programming, but faily
> fluent in generic C. I want to write a text indexing/searching
> program, and am considering GTK from the positive reports I've heard
> thus far and its GPL licensing.
>
> My question: I need some honest advice about whether the man hours
> required for me to get up to speed with GTK are justified given the
> sparse GTK documentation, the state of flux of the routines, and the
> alternate widget sets available.
>
> Can anyone share their thoughts with me here?
>
> Keep up the good work on this project!
The time involved isn't really any more than you'd spend getting going
with most X toolkits, despite the lack of documentation. I'd say Qt
is the only one that's comparable, but that's C++ so if you know C
gtk+ is the way to go. (I think it took me about two weeks to get
going with gtk+... longer to start writing new widgets, which I
haven't quite mastered just yet)
Not to mention the amount of money you'd end up spending on books to
lear something like Motif. Very scarry thought. :)
Good luck.
--
-Otto.
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