Re: [VB4Linux-Dev] GUI Development

[Luke-Jr <Mi...@an...>]

I was under the impression that any project members could upload to the
project groups' directory and modify files set g+w (which the website
IS, BTW)...
Maybe we could make a builtin implementation of GTK for VB4Linux?


Abhijit Paithankar wrote:

> > Well, this may be the first version of VB4Linux that we make! Microsoft
> > just accepted me as a Visual Studio.NET beta tester! When I get the
> > stuff I'll prolly make the help files accessable to the group...
>
> hey thats great news!
>
> for the VB *.chm files, if you guys could wait till monday, I could have
> those files up by then.
> Mike, I think I would need the admin rights to do the needful...(or do I?)
>
> I found out some more info about the GUI Development:
>
> If you want something that will work on all X-servers, you are better
> off using just Xlib and XT and not using any widget set at all. This
> will ensure that your applicatoin will work on any X-server. However,
> this involoves a lot of programming even for small things like buttons,
> menus, and diaglog boxes, etc. that we generally take for granted when
> we use a widget set.
>
> If you would like to be able to use your application under all
> distributions under linux, then you should program using GTK, there is a
> tutorial at gtk.org and a book in the market.
> Glade is very useful once you understand the code that is required to be
> written in GTK, since you need to add to the code automatically
> generated by Glade. Once you understand basic GTK concepts, Glade makes
> UI development very easy.
>
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