[Mono-list] Porting PyGtk tutorial to GTK# - Help needed

[Chuck Esterbrook]

On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 4:59 AM, Andy <andy at ninjagod.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I was looking at the tutorials available for GTK#, and none of them seem to
> be as good as the tutorials available for PyGtk or Gtk+. I realized that the
> PyGtk tutorial is almost like a port of the original GTK+ tutorial with some
> added tutorials regarding TreeViews, etc.
> Since GTK# bears some significant similarity over PyGTK, I felt that it
> wouldn't be too challenging to port the code samples and syntax from the
> original tutorial to a newer one. The structure of the tutorial and the
> content has been tested for several years and seem to be effective enough as
> a starting point for material. I decided to start an ambitious attempt to
> port the entire tutorial to GTK# within the next few weeks)
> The original PyGtk tutorial can be accessed from
> here: http://pygtk.org/pygtk2tutorial/
> I have attempted porting a single section just to get a feel for it. You can
> see the original "Buttons" tutorial here
> - http://pygtk.org/pygtk2tutorial/ch-ButtonWidget.html
> And also compare it with my attempt available
> here: http://www.ninjagod.com/gtk-sharp/wikka.php?wakka=Buttons
> The conversion was relatively effortless and required a single concise
> read-through and porting the code line-by-line. The rest was just
> copy-paste. Porting is a lot easier if you have an understanding of Python
> (I did), but it's quite readable and obvious. I guess we also need to write
> whole programs and make the source available after testing and making sure
> that it works (My code that I put up there doesn't). It took about half an
> hour to get it done.
> I'm hoping that with enough contributors sharing the work, and not altering
> content significantly, we can finish the conversion fast and effectively,
> and make the learning content available for people who are new to GTK#
> development, and leverage existing documentation. Please email me if you are
> interested in contributing.
> Also, for people who have done something like this before, any advice
> regarding the tools to use, etc would be greatly appreciated.
> Thanks,
> Andy

This was a good idea, but Andy's domain seems to be down which means
his email might be down as well.

Are there any additional tutorials besides what is listed here?
http://www.mono-project.com/GtkSharpTutorials

Searching for GTK# on Google yields a lot of GTK+ results, making it
hard to get only GTK#-specific pages.


-Chuck