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

[Sven Jaborek]

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Am Freitag, den 06.01.2006, 14:24 -0700 schrieb 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
>         > 
>         > 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
>         > > 
>         > > 
>         > > 
>         > >     
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