[Mono-list] where to get the right documentation?

[Martin Willemoes Hansen]

On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 22:42, Davy Brion wrote:
> Hey guys,
> 
> i'm using mono 0.26 and gtk# 0.10
> 
> I'm a complete newbie to gtk and i must say that it is very frustrating to 
> learn gtk due to the documentation.

Here a a couple of nice documentation hints :o)

http://www.go-mono.com/tutorial/
http://www.go-mono.com:8080/
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/cpref_start.asp

Wright, Peter: Beginning Gtk+/GNOME programming

Remember to read the source of Gtk+ too, its pretty nice.

> I can't get monodoc running... i don't have most of the gnome libraries since 
> i don't run gnome and installing gtk# from CVS (which is apparantly a 
> requirement to get monodoc working) is not something i'd even consider since 
> i'm writing an application that uses gtk# and i can't expect the users of my 
> application to install gtk# from CVS.  So imagine my happyness when i found 
> out about http://mono.ximian.com:8080.  However, the webserver hosting that 
> documentation is sometimes painfully slow and today i've noticed that the 
> documentation isn't even complete.  For instance: i wanted to find out which 
> event i needed to handle to respond to a mouseclick on a row in a TreeView.  
> I was surprised that i couldn't find an appropriate event to handle a 
> mouseclick.  Then a quick google search showed me this: 
> http://www.es.gnome.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/MonoTagEditor/Attic/main.cs?annotate=1.1&cvsroot=GNOME
> in which you can see that there are definitely more events than listed in the 
> documentation on mono.ximian.com:8080 (including the ButtonPressEvent which 
> seems to be the one i need).  
> 
> So now i'm wondering: what source should i use for documentation when it comes 
> to gtk# ?  Having Gtk# CVS as a dependency of monodoc 0.6 is a huge problem 
> to those of us who aren't involved in the development of mono or gtk# but who 
> are actually trying to create applications for end users.  Isn't it possible 
> to create some sort of downloadable html version of the documentation?  It 
> sure would make life easier for many of us i think...   
> 
> Don't get me wrong... i'm very impressed with what the mono project has 
> accomplished so far but if you want people to create GUI applications in Mono 
> then you really should try to lower the learning curve for those of us who 
> don't have any GTK experience.  Easily accessible documentation would 
> definitely be a step in the right direction.
> 
> I hope i haven't offended anyone, but please think about this.
> 
> kind regards,
> davy brion
> 
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