Archives May 15, 2008


15 May

As great as Cairo seems, I just recently learned about a widget in the gnome / GTK+ library that can also be used for drawing: Gnome Canvas. While Cairo seems to be more for drawing static, non-interactive pictures, the Gnome Canvas is more for layering shapes, bitmaps, etc... onto a "canvas", and it keeps track of ...


15 May

Glade 3.0 is a great GUI designer. I can't imagine creating a GUI using code when this option is available. It takes no more than a few minutes to setup a screen, name your signals, and set the default properties. It's also super easy to hook up the handler methods.

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