Gtk# class library refrence or manual?

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Gtk# class library refrence or manual?

by True_Friend :: Rate this Message:

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Hi
I am a beginner in programming as well in mono/gtk. There are guides available to winforms and windows based application development. But gtk based application devel guides are not. There are not any books even. I tired to find some class/reference manual or something in monodoc on Gtk namespace but there is nothing there as well. I want to know about the classes and methods because gtk is lot different from winforms and it is very annoying sometimes to inability to find a method to do a simple task even e.g. I am trying to find a way to display some text in textview widget cannot find a Textbox.Text equivalent in gtk. Plz refer me some manual or such thing where at least methods and properties are explained of gtk.
Regards

Re: Gtk# class library refrence or manual?

by countcb :: Rate this Message:

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The gtk documentation is part of the mono doc.
http://www.go-mono.com/docs/
The gtk namespace is in the tree on the left under the node Gnome.

Direct link to the gtk namespace:
http://www.go-mono.com/docs/index.aspx?tlink=4@N%3aGtk

Re: Gtk# class library refrence or manual?

by Christian Hoff :: Rate this Message:

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Finding documentation on Gtk# GUI development is really a problem. After
some time I found the developer resource section of the Mono page
(http://www.mono-project.com/Category:Developer_Resource). The problem
with the Mono Wiki in general is that most articles completly outdated
and some are full of errors . Generally I prefer MSDN if I can use it.
"Normal" visitors are not allowed to change the Mono Wiki. A good way
would be to allow changes by users with approval of one of the
developers. As I am definitly not the only user who is annoyed by the
Wiki(see IggyMa's blog
http://iggyma.blogspot.com/2008/06/mono-wiki-or-how-i-learned-to-stop.html 
for a description that I can completly agree to :-) ) I think I'll write
a mail to the Mono list.

The same thing can be said about the monodoc documentation. At least the
Gtk# section did not get updated recently.

Really good documentation on Gtk+ is available on the Gnome website:
http://library.gnome.org/devel/references. Most of the information can
be used for Gtk# development as well.

Christian

True_Friend schrieb:

> Hi
> I am a beginner in programming as well in mono/gtk. There are guides
> available to winforms and windows based application development. But gtk
> based application devel guides are not. There are not any books even. I
> tired to find some class/reference manual or something in monodoc on Gtk
> namespace but there is nothing there as well. I want to know about the
> classes and methods because gtk is lot different from winforms and it is
> very annoying sometimes to inability to find a method to do a simple task
> even e.g. I am trying to find a way to display some text in textview widget
> cannot find a Textbox.Text equivalent in gtk. Plz refer me some manual or
> such thing where at least methods and properties are explained of gtk.
> Regards
>  
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Re: Gtk# class library refrence or manual?

by countcb :: Rate this Message:

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I had no problems so far with using the doc which can be found under the above posted link.
Maybe the wiki was not updated recently but the apidoc is very usable in my opinion.