]> Havoc Pennington Red Hat Advanced Development Labs hp@redhat.com First Release 1999 1999 New Riders Publishing 0-7357-0078-8 New Riders Publishing This material may be distributed only subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Open Publication License, v1.0 or later (the latest version is presently available at http://www.opencontent.org/openpub/ ) The first chapter of the book gives you an overview of GTK+ and Gnome technologies. Chapters 2 and 3 rapidly cover the basics of GTK+ programming. These chapters move very quickly, and give you the information you need to understand the remainder of the book. For a gentler introduction to GTK+, you may wish to read the GTK+ Tutorial or Eric Harlow's book Developing Linux Applications with GTK+ and GDK. &INTRO; &GLIB; >K; With the basic concepts out of the way, you're ready to start building a full-scale Gnome application. This part of the book walks you through the creation of a generic application skeleton: a source tree using automake and autoconf, argument parsing, session management, internationalization, the main window, dialogs, toolbars, and menubars. Many examples in Part 2 come from a simple application called "GnomeHello"; the source code for this application is included in the back of the book. Of course the "meat" of the application is up to you; but in Part 3 of the book we'll cover a range of library features you can use to develop it. &SOURCETREE; &STARTUP; &MAIN; &DIALOGS; &CHECKLIST The previous part got you started with a skeletal application. This part of the book describes features available to the Gnome developer as she begins to implement the main functionality of the program. The first few chapters in this part cover some useful GTK+ details. The later chapters branch out to describe facilities unique to Gnome. You may not use all the tools described here for a given application, but you will probably use many of them. &OBJECTS; &GDK; &CUSTOMWIDGET; &CANVAS; &CANVASITEM; Appendix A describes the GTK+/Gnome object hierarchy; it should help you find the widget you need for a given application. Appendix B is a guide to the GTK+ and Gnome header files. Appendix C answers some frequently asked questions; Appendix D points you to some useful online resources; and Appendix E contains code listings for examples used in the book. &HIERARCHY; &HEADERS; &FAQS; &ONLINE; &LISTING;