Gtk+ Programming in C

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 864 pages
• Published by: Prentice Hall PTR September 6, 2001
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0130142646
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0130142641
• Book Dimensions: 9.1 x 7 x 1.9 inches
• Weighs: 2.7 pounds

Book Info
Your ultimate guide to building graphical Linux UNIX applications with Gtk+ 1.2. Includes comprehensive coverage on Gtk+ 1.2, GLIB, and GDK. Softcover.

Back Cover Copy


The ultimate guide to building graphical Linux(r)/UNIX(r) applications with Gtk+ 1.2!

• Write great graphical applications for Linux(r) and UNIX(r)!
• Leverage the full power of Gtk+ 1.2, GLIB, and GDK
• Includes comprehensive Gtk+ widget coverage: explanations, examples, and reference
• Also contains Linux/UNIX C programming quick-start/refresher

The more popular Linux becomes, the more developers want to build graphical applications that run in Linux/UNIX environments-and Gtk+ 1.2 offers a powerful toolset for doing so. In this start-to-finish tutorial and reference, respected Linux/UNIX developer Syd Logan covers everything programmers need to begin building powerful graphical applications with Gtk+ 1.2 immediately. Gtk+ Programming in C covers all this, and more:

• The basics of Linux/UNIX programming with C
• A quick GTK+ startup section for novices: constructing simple applications, step by step
• Understanding GTK+'s flexible C-based, object-oriented architecture
• Working with signals, events, objects, and types
• Comprehensive widgets coverage: base, menu, layout, range, scrollbar, scale, container, text, and more
• Creating and using dialogs
• Container and Bin classes
• Expert introductions to the GLIB and GDK libraries

If you're ready to write easy-to-use applications for the world's fastest growing, most robust OS platforms, you've come to the right book: Gtk+ Programming in C, by Syd Logan.

Reader Reviews
When it came time for me to make the transition from the nice and cozy world of Windows/MFC to X Windows, I started to scrounge for an X toolkit to develop applications on. As a result, I searched for decent documentation. This book tries to be a primer and a reference, but it really only succeeds as a reference. This book covers the straight GTK code from a C perspective, and documents most of the basic widgets. With only this book, you will find it difficult and tedious to produce usable applications. However, armed with glade, a glade tutorial, and this book, you can be as productive in designing X GUIs as a Visual Basic programmer. Highly recommended. Comment | | (Report this)