[Mathmagic-devlopment] Druids and everything else.

[NAYANI A. <nay...@ya...>]

Hi,

	The best resources you can have when programming with
GTK+ & GNOME toolkits are the reference guides. You
can download them from developer.gnome.org/docs/api.
You should get all the docs there (
gtk,glib,gdk,libgnome etc.) and there are excellent
tutorials in the doc directory itself (like GGAD etc.)
If it is not possible to download all these stuff you
can find similar docs in /usr/doc/gnome-libs-devel/.
The thing you need to know about a druid is it is
mostly automated. It needs to be put in a toplevel
window of its own.There are three types of pages it
can hold, druidpagestandard - this has an empty vbox
in which we can keep any of our widgets,
druidpagestart(or first :)) - this page has a disabled
back button and we can display any text in the center.
druidpagefinish - similar to first, but it has got a
finish button instead of next. The druid automaticaly
handles the next and other buttons if we don't handle
the signals. There are four signals we can handle
"next","cancel","back","finish". you can connect a
callback to it ,do your function calls and then
display the next page using the func
gnome_druid_page_set(). For more info see the docs
--its easy. I used glade to do the following - create
the toplevel window, set the title, create druid with
4 pages. set each pages heading,logo. set the first
pages intro, create an hbox for the second page and
embed a label and entry widget. that's all! save,
build and delete the .glade file. The changes i did to
the main interface file are at the bottom separated by
****.
This style is really good and I would like it if you
can get used to it as well :).

				Abhi.

PS: I actually downloaded the whole
developer.gnome.org :). (wget -cr --tries=0 -nc
http://developer.gnome.org)
It comes to arround just 25Mb of high quality data.

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