[Help-smalltalk] Re: Gtk+ bindings

[Roberto Amorim]

This is fantastic news. I thought more than once about doing it myself, but
I realized that my knowledge of GTK+ is far from what it takes to do such
work, and thus found myself wondering when (and even if) such a thing would
appear. And then I read this. :-)

I'll take a good look on your work ASAP, and I'm sure almost everyone else
on this list will. Meanwhile, *do* get some rest. I'm sure you deserve it.
:-)

Best regards, and many thanks,

Roberto

> Ladies and Gentlemen,
>
> I've been working on my set of Gtk bindings, and they are now in a
> fairly functional state (ie. you can use them to build and run
> functional windows).
>
> Implementing any 'regular' widgets I've missed takes minimal work.
> Trees/lists and text buffers require many extra C bindings, and there
> are probably many useful ones not implemented yet (although basic
> functionality is there - see the tests/examples).
>
> This isn't built on the existing Gtk bindings, but that is not in any
> way a criticism of them - it's simply that I didn't have the knowledge
> to work on them (since it involved much automaking, sedding, etc.),
> whereas I could write new bindings from scratch.
>
> Available from http://www.gingerbread.plus.com/downloads.
>
> All suggestions and criticism, short of personal attacks, gratefully
> received. Actually, if anyone can suggest an approach for writing unit
> tests for this type of work, I'd be very interested.
>
> Mike
>
> P.S. I am, of course, going away now for a few days. I'll be back in
> touch at the weekend.