Re: [ossig] gtk applications ?

[Colin Charles <byte@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 12:59 +0800, Raja Iskandar Shah wrote:
> anyone out there has any real life experience with developing
> applications with gtk ? strengths and weaknesses ? trying to help a
> friend in evaluating php-gtk - he is already familiar with php; as
> opposed to dot-net - where you can use the same language for web
> services as well as rich client applications. he has given up on java
> (too complicated).

Funny you ask; I myself have just been introduced to PHP-GTK (gtk
bindings for php)

Coming from a python+gtk background, and wanting to hone PHP, PHP gtk
seemed rather impressive. The only downside is that stable version
currently is for an older gtk, but work on getting the bindings working
with the newest gtk is underway (from the website, it seems)

I was rather impressed with the way PHP can be used to call and draw gtk
widgets (because I've always looked at PHP as a web-based thing... never
more than that; I'm wrong of course, playing with PHP more these days),
and even sync with an external CMS (think gnome-blog, but intsead of a
pygtk app, you're getting phpgtk, plus more), with XML-RPC. Sweet demo,
and easy to write your first app (provided you have some gtk experience)

If your friend is learning GTK, "devhelp" is useful. For PHP, I immersed
myself in something for production use (privately!), and found the
tutorials at the website particularly useful (get the tarball - ~2mb,
unpacks ~30mb)
-- 
Colin Charles, byte@aeon.com.my
http://www.bytebot.net/
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, 
then you win." -- Mohandas Gandhi


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