I will definitely research "model view controller". From the quick scan I did at Wikipedia it sounds like a very good idea indeed.
I made my first pop up window. What I learned from it is; always use a interface designer because looking up and typing the code to set up the windows and event handling is a real pain in the butt. Took me a couple hours to find all the necessary bits to get it working. Then I redid the same window in Glade and it only took 5 min to accomplish the same task.
Code:
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <gtk/gtk.h>
static void hello(GtkWidget *widget, gpointer data){
g_print("Hello World it's Jim\n");
}
static gboolean delete_event(GtkWidget *widget,
GdkEvent *event,
gpointer data){
g_print("delete event occured\n");
return TRUE;
}
static void destroy(GtkWidget *widget, gpointer data){
gtk_main_quit();
}
int main(int argc, char *argv[]){
GtkWidget *window;
GtkWidget *button;
gtk_init(&argc,&argv);
window = gtk_window_new(GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL);
g_signal_connect(window, "delete event",
G_CALLBACK(delete_event),NULL);
g_signal_connect(window, "destroy",
G_CALLBACK(destroy),NULL);
gtk_container_set_border_width(GTK_CONTAINER(window),10);
button = gtk_button_new_with_label("Hello World");
g_signal_connect(button, "clicked",
G_CALLBACK(hello),NULL);
g_signal_connect_swapped(button, "clicked",
G_CALLBACK(gtk_widget_destroy),window);
gtk_container_add(GTK_CONTAINER(window),button);
gtk_widget_show(button);
gtk_main();
return 0;
}
Originally Posted by jimtuv
That is going to give you the best set of options in the end.
Personally I would never use C or C++ for GUI but I'm being open minded here in the spirit of this forum and the board in saying it is perfectly valid. For me with respect to GUI programming it's C# or nothing. I could, on the rare occasion, use VB but I would never mention that here b/c I would lose a lot of C/C++ nerd points. 