From: Kevin Smith <sent@...>
Date: 2001-03-04T05:05:34+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:11944] Gtk resources (was: Re: Seeking Ruby/Tk sensei...)

Guerry Semones wrote:
>Which book did you get and would you recommend it?

Originally I had Havoc's Gnome programming book. 
It was too much Gnome and not enough Gtk. 
Helpful, but not ideal. I sold that and bought 
GTK+/GNOME Programming by Peter Wright (from Wrox 
press). I chose it mostly based on Amazon 
reviews. 

It is pretty introductory, which is a nice 
complement to the official online reference 
pages. It's also about 50% Gtk and 50% Gnome. 
Hopefully there are better books out there, but 
this one is better than nothing (and better than 
the other one I had). It has definitely cleared 
up some questions that I couldn't answer using 
the online docs.

>Also, what are your thoughts on Ruby/LibGlade?  Does it help to leverage
>any effort if you are doing Ruby/GTK+?  Does Glade alone help?

I haven't used Glade or LibGlade at all. In my 
apps, it has been simple enough to build the UI 
directly in code.

Kevin