Re: What is the minimum number of lines to update a gui window without user clicking a button

["L. D. James" <ljames apollo3 com>]

On 08/20/2013 06:42 AM, Markus Elfring wrote:
> > I'm sure I can add a lot of highlights and decorations now.  But I 
> > can't emphasis how important I consider having  the rawest and most 
> > basic (blank) slate to begin with.
> > The absolute only thing that matters at this point is for me to 
> > actually be able to have a gui window and update it with appended or 
> > new text.
>
> Are you also interested to write any message to a file?
>
> How do you think about to deal with documents?
> http://bakery.sourceforge.net/
>
> Would you like to scroll through the logs?
>
> Regards,
> Markus
I don't have any problems with any of the things you're listing. I'm 
trying to be specific in this particular thread and concentrate on one 
thing, updating a gui window without a user pressing a button.

It took me about a week to convert Alan's label widget example to a 
textview widget.  I started this thread when I was having problems. But 
after getting the label widget changed to a textview widget and having 
the code actually work, the task was done.

While you're giving me lots of documentation to read, and I have enough 
lined up that I'll be studying it for a very long time, I have found 
that most of what I actually have needed (as Kjell mentioned) is already 
there in the Gtkmm tutorial.  I believe the only thing it lacked was a 
clear example of updating a gui window without buttons... a blank slate 
to work with.  So in this thread I'm hoping for clarity on that.

It's common for a new user to an environment to want to see something 
very clear... to print a HelloWorld as a starting reference.  Many 
people might not have problems if the HelloWorld included file IO, 
scroll locks, window decorations, and more.  But for most beginners, the 
simplest would be come the easiest to get an immediate grip for 
starting.  If they are able to look at the simplest, understand it, and 
possibly be able to recreate it from memory they may have a better 
grip.  That's the way it works in my case.

Thanks again for all the suggestions!

-- L. James

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