GUI Question

[ncf]

Note: My apologies for the length of the message.

I've got a stable background in console mode programming (daemon-like
and interactive) and am starting to get into GUI programming. Because I
learn best by making stupid little hacks on stuff, I have decided to
attack Gaim's source code and alter the Buddy List window to have a
background image.

I have isolated in gtkblist.h (Line 77) the structure that composes the
buddy list window, and more specificially, the object I suppose I shall
have to make a function call on:
GdkRectangle contact_rect; /** This is the bounding rectangle of the
contact node
and its children. This is used for
auto-expand on
mouseover. */

By isolating this, I think it will be easier to find out where to apply
the call in the source code of gtkblist.c.

Sadly, however, when I google for such topics, I seem to be inable to
discover how I should approach this. Any advice/guidance on this matter
would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance
-Wes

[Skarmander]

ncf wrote:

Note: My apologies for the length of the message.

I've got a stable background in console mode programming (daemon-like
and interactive) and am starting to get into GUI programming. Because I
learn best by making stupid little hacks on stuff, I have decided to
attack Gaim's source code and alter the Buddy List window to have a
background image. <snip> Sadly, however, when I google for such topics, I seem to be inable to
discover how I should approach this. Any advice/guidance on this matter
would be greatly appreciated.

The only guidance I can offer is that you should try forums dedicated to
GTK, not this one, which is dedicated to the C language. I advise
reading the tutorial: http://www.gtk.org/tutorial/, and trying a few
simple programs of your own rather than hacking an existing program.
That only ever teaches you something if you know how to do it; it's not
worth it if you have to dig deeply.

I wager most of us are not familiar with the Gaim source code and aren't
interested in becoming familiar with it, either.

S.

[ncf]

Err, my apologies. Thanks for the reply.

And on a side note, I have never learnt from tutorials for whatever
reason. Just never seems to click for me. Oh well.

Thanks anyways,
-Wes