Re: GTK 2.2 compatibility and GTK 2.4+ widgets

[Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com>]

On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 03:24, Gabriele Greco wrote:
> There is a way to know if a widget is available only in a particular 
> version of GTK 2.x?
>
> I'm developing an application on a GTK 2.4 machine with the target to be 
> able to run it also on GTK 2.2, since  most distributions of the past 
> two years still has that installed.
>
> It's the second time I have to disable a feature I've added since I've 
> discovered (compiling on a GTK 2.2 machine) that the widget doesn't 
> exists on that! (gtk_combo_entry, gtk_color_button...)
>
> It will be nice to have in the widget documentation the GTK version in 
> whitch a particular widget has been introduced.

The docs of GTK+ head (which will hopefully appear online soon) have
separate indices for new apis introduced in each version, making it
very easy to answer questions like this. Until then you will have to
hunt for the "Since: 2.x" notes below the individual apis.

Matthias