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

[Clark Endrizzi]

Yeah, I've been confused on that point.  I saw the glade 3 integration but
had to wonder why they were using that instead of stetic, is stetic on hold
or something?

On 1/6/06, hemant kumar <gethemant at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Ultimately Monodevelop will be using either glade-3 or stetic..but it is a
> work in progress...
>
>
> Buddy Lindsey wrote:
>
> 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
>
> --
> Buddy Lindsey
> http://www.buddylindsey.com
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> On 1/6/06, Clark Endrizzi <cendrizzi at gmail.com> <cendrizzi at gmail.com> wrote:
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>  On 1/6/06, László Monda <mondalaci at gmail.com> <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 <http://monda.hu/%7Elaci/blog>
>     Home: http://mondalaci.objectis.net
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>
>        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
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