Re: need suggestion about gtk+

[Chris Vine <chris cvine freeserve co uk>]

On Thursday 07 September 2006 10:32, Sergei Steshenko wrote:

> Have you ever done any GUI programming ?
>
> I think that GUI programming experience in any toolkit can be useful.
>
> That is, gtk+ has a lot of similarities to other GUI toolkits; it's
> important to understand what widget hierarchy, signals, callbacks,
> main event loop, etc. are.
>
> Essentially GUI programming is parallel one, i.e. you can initiate an
> operation pressing a button and while the operation is in progress do
> other things with the same GUI. Or, rather, people call it multithreaded.

Essentially, GUI programming is event based, via a program main event loop.  
It does not imply multi-threading (though with considerable care GTK+ can be 
used in threaded programs).

Chris