[desktop-discuss] creating simple gui (zenity not enough)

[Calum Benson]

On 4 Nov 2007, at 18:08, vlad wrote:

> Hello guys. I need to create my own small gui. Can anybody help  
> with tools that i need, and may be point me to some guide like a  
> 'developing jds apps for dummies' ? Zenity have not enough futures
> :(

What programming language you want to use for your application?  The  
'traditional' gtk/gnome programming language is C, but there are also  
bindings for (at least) Python, Perl and C++.  There are plenty of  
tutorials online to get you started, e.g.

http://www.gtk.org/tutorial (for C)
http://www.pygtk.org/pygtk2tutorial/index.html (for Python)
http://gtk2-perl.sourceforge.net/doc/gtk2-perl-tut/ (for Perl)

You might also want to investigate the Glade UI builder that's part  
of JDS.  This will allow you to design your GUI and, using the  
libglade API, load it into your application at runtime.  There are  
quite a few Glade tutorials online, although admittedly not many for  
glade-3, which is the version that is currently in Nevada/vermillion.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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