Archive for August, 2008

GTK# Tutorial

Sunday, August 3rd, 2008

I’ve decided, as I may have mentioned before, that I plan on using C# and GTK# built using MonoDevelop as my cross-platform platform of choice. I’ve always had one problem with this - getting the GUI to be responsive.

You have to understand that I’ve been programming a long time (the first program I wrote I had to flip the toggle switches on the front panel to toggle in the 0’s and 1’s), but just about everything I’ve done has been command line based. Mostly utility programs, programs that operate behind the scenes, programs that are used by other developers or systems people - in short, nothing graphical in nature. This is a whole new issue for me. (more…)