[Gtk-sharp-list] Re: gtk-sharp theory

[Buddy Lindsey]

Thanks for the replies.  I will check out the links.

The reason I am not using glade yet is to get an understanding of how
they widgets are working.  I eventually plan on using a form designer,
but most likely what gets put into monodevelop.  I will however look
more into glade to see how that goes.

Again thaink you for your responses.  I am sure they will help me out a lot.

Thanks
Buddy lindsey

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Buddy Lindsey
http://www.buddylindsey.com

On 1/6/06, Clark Endrizzi <cendrizzi at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/6/06, László Monda <mondalaci at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hey Buddy,
> >
> > On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 12:08 -0600, Buddy Lindsey wrote:
> > > I was curios is there anything that I can read on some theory on how
> > > you should layout programs using gtk-sharp?
> > >
> > > since I am new to software development I am not entirely sure how, or
> > > what, to do on design of forms and such.  I want them to look coherent
> > > and nice without useing glade.
> > >
> > > Is there something I can read on it or can some of you developers that
> > > have been around the block give me some insight?  Also some help with
> > > general how to do layout stuff in Gtk-sharp would be great.  I have
> > > been playing with it, but sometimes I am disconnected from the
> > > internet for hours so i can't check much documentation because I am
> > > using windows. BTW I am working on converting to linux full time, but
> > > it is moving slow.
> >
> > GNOME developers generally layout their GUI according to the GNOME Human
> > Interface Guidelines.
> >
> > You can find it at:
> >
> > http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/
> >
> > In this document you'll find dozens of good advices related to designing
> > your GUI.
> >
> > Speaking of Glade, I think it's a really good idea using it.
> > Constructing you GUI using pure Gtk# without Glade can be a serious
> > pain.  Since there are not high-level widgets that automatically comply
> > to the GNOME HIG, using Glade is always a good idea in my opinion.
> >
> > --
> > Laci
> >
> >     Blog: http://monda.hu/~laci/blog
> >     Home: http://mondalaci.objectis.net
> >
> >
> I'll second that with glade.  I have a little application that I have to
> code the layout on part of it because of the flexibility I need and the code
> can get a little ugly.  If you have a pretty static interface then you
> should always use glade.  What's nice about GTK is that you can do most of
> the interface in Glade and in the parts you need the extra flexbility
> required by hand coding you just leave that part blank and pack in your
> custom stuff.
>
> That might be confusing but it's pretty simple as I'm a pretty big noob
> myself.  To start my journey I started by looking at an application called
> monotheka (http://monotheka.mdk.org.pl/).  It's a simple application and it
> used sqlite so it was a good starting point for me.  If you get the source
> you'll see how the author set up his glade stuff.  My application is still
> too early to start showing it as an example : ) (plus I'm learning .net and
> GTK# at the same time, so I don't feel confident enough on my coding
> technique).
>
> - Clark
>
> --
> -Clark Endrizzi
>
>