Postings by Michael in February 2009
Undocumented Widgets?
So that is why people struggle with tree views!
Debugging signals in GTK+
So I ran over an odd signal flow in the GTK+, and I needed to get helpful debug information. Daniel quickly pointed me to the GTypeDebugFlags, which contains the pro-tip to use the environment variable GOBJECT_DEBUG instead (the glib docs that come with the source has the same advice)[1]. Great!
$ GOBJECT_DEBUG=signals my_gtk_app
and I ...
The power of github
A lot has already been said about github, but I guess it can't harm if I make a list of my preferred features:
- Dashboard (need to be logged in to see): this is your personal start location. It contains many useful links and other automatically generated information, such as news from people you track ("follow"). It is the most prominent feature regarding the user-centered approach of github ...
Learning GTK+
During the last weeks I started to learn about the GTK+. I mostly followed the official tutorial but soon tried to walk on my own legs. Perhaps that was not always the best choice, as I ran into dead ends later (I skipped some chapters which probably were important, but their title did not give it away). Requiring sequential reading is so 1999 ...
Now why is the GTK+ awesome ...
