My first GTK program

Ian Malone ibm21 at cam.ac.uk
Sat Dec 10 16:22:54 UTC 2005


From: Jarkko Elfving wrote:

> Tony Nelson wrote:
> 
>>> At 6:58 PM +0200 12/9/05, Jarkko Elfving wrote:
>>> 
>>
>>> Also I'm trying to finding some useful commands to build a system wide
>>> program with functions like getenv() and system().
>>
>>> 
>> I don't understand the question.  You already have getenv() and system()
>> with your C library, right?  (They are in Python, as well.)
>> 
> 
> 
> I meant, what other system based functions there is in C? My programming
> skills are little bit more than basics. I've heard that I can access to
> the OS with functions getenv and system. What other same kind of
> functions there is, or does those two functions open the whole "world"
> of the OS?
>

I suppose it depends what you mean by system based.

$ info libc

Also note that, while getnv and system are in C, what actually happens
is quite system dependent.  It really depends what you want to achieve.

> 
>>> 
>>
>>> What else I should to noticed before I start this kind of project?
>>
>>> 
>> wxWidgets?  QT?  I don't know them yet, but they might be a better choice.
>> (Though, any of wxWidgets, QT, and GTK can be used on various OSs.  I have
>> my Python GTK app running on MSWindows as well as FC3 Linux.)

There is also XUL, but if anyone figures out a simple way to create
XPCOM services I'd love to hear about it...

-- 
imalone




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