Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 10:26:27 +1000
From: Erik de Castro Lopo <ocaml-erikd at mega-nerd.com>
To: lablgtk at math.nagoya-u.ac.jp
Subject: Re: Low level lablgtk2 hacking
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Jacques Garrigue wrote:

> LablGTK tries to be both close enough to GTK+ so
> that the original documentation is still relevant,

I think it misses the mark here :-). I am very comfortable with
C but have done very little with GTK+ and was able to get pretty
much exactly what I wanted without too much pain.

My Ocaml coding skills are not as strong as my C skills and until
using lablgtk I hadn't used the object oriented parts of the 
language.

The methodology that is currently bearing the most fruit is:

  a) Figure out how to do it in C/GTK+.
  b) Grep for same concepts in the lablgtk2 *.mli files.
  c) Goolge for "concept lablgtk2".

Step c) will usually get me a code snippet that works.

> You could also try using glade. If the interface is simple enough, it
> could ease the building a lot, while letting you control everything
> from ocaml.

I'm so close now I can almost taste it but I may well try glade next
time. 

Cheers,
Erik
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