[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] some precisions

[From: Aleksandr Koltsoff]

On Friday 08 July 2005 00:06, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote:
> (Sorry to flood ;-) )

You're welcome :-)

> We mostly master Python/OCaml/C than Java.
> At school/college/univesrity, we made some complicated programs, but
> never X11 applications, and very few multiple files project (all our
> homeworks/projects were about one large file) and only command-line
> based. Not event ncurses based.

You don't need to program "X11" with maemo SDK. I found the maemo tutorial 
rather difficult for starters (IMHO) and would recommend that you would try 
to go trough the GTK+ tutorial first (although it is quite outdated), be sure 
to use the version 2.x tutorial, not the 1.x. When you've done you're first 
menus and vboxes and things like that, you might want to look at the tutorial 
again. The tutorial assumes a great deal of things about the reader.

> I doubt and don't really know if we have installed enough...
> Do we need special flavour of GTK libs??

Follow the installation instructions. You need scratchbox and the maemo RS 
(SDK). The rootstrap contains the special flavour GTK+ libs that you'll need 
but as I said, you should really start with normal GTK+ first. It's not that 
different in maemo. The "Hildon Libs" are custom widgets for the special 
version of GTK+ that comes with the SDK.

Hope this helps

ak.