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openldev · Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2007 9:36 pm Post subject:

This is really odd for them to do. Are you buying through Amazon.com or a foreign Amazon? Also, at what point in the process did they ask you for confirmation? Was it when you added it to the cart or when you checked out?

I am just trying to find out what is going on, so please bear with me. :) And yes, I hope it is selling like hotcakes ... I'll find out in a few months.

deusvede · Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 6:34 am Post subject:

I'm buying from Spain (southern Europe :)) through Amazon.com. I bought 3 books, previously waiting for the three of them to be marked as "In stock", to avoid delays. They said nothing throught all the shopping process about possible delays.

One day later, they sent me only two of them (with a "Your Amazon.com order has shipped" mail that excluded your book), but still marked yours with the same delivery date estimation. Two days more and they send me this mail:

openldev · Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 1:05 pm Post subject:

I'm not totally sure, but I think this is because you are a foreign customer. I haven't heard anything like this from people in the US. Sorry for the delay nevertheless!

deusvede · Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 1:40 pm Post subject:

Well, Amazon is turning disappointing, lately :(.

openldev · Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 2:18 pm Post subject:

My editor just said:

deusvede · Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 2:23 pm Post subject:

I hope so. Thanks for caring, Andrew :).

deusvede · Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 7:16 pm Post subject:

My copy is (finally) here :D.

openldev · Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 9:05 pm Post subject:

Great! I hope you enjoy it! Let me know if you have any questions along the way.

broeisi · Familiar Face Joined: 18 May 2007 Posts: 8

Andrew is your book also suited for beginners?
I just learned C for beginners (Ivor Horton's book) and would like to learn GTK+ .

Could you give me some advise here?

openldev · Posted: Thu May 24, 2007 6:53 pm Post subject:

As long as you know the basics of C, you will be able to use the book. It starts from the very basics of GTK+, covering most of the library and its supporting libraries such as GLib, Pango, GDK, and GdkPixbuf.

So, yes. You would certainly be able to use it. And if you have any questions as you go along, feel free to ask!

broeisi · Familiar Face Joined: 18 May 2007 Posts: 8

What's the basic of C??
Pointers, structures, array??

Do I have to know things like linked lists, hash tress, binary trees etc etc?

openldev · Posted: Thu May 24, 2007 7:16 pm Post subject:

You need to know what the main function is, basic data types like int and char, and how to include a header file. There are little things here and there that might creep up. For example, in Chapter 6, the Hash Tables section assumes that you know how the data structure works, but that information isn't used anywhere else in the book. As long as you can write a very simple program, you will be fine.

broeisi · Familiar Face Joined: 18 May 2007 Posts: 8

I know that..

Thank You very much for your help... and good luck with your book..
The sales I mean :)

Micah Carrick · Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 5:55 am Post subject:

Fred Harris · Familiar Face Joined: 19 Apr 2008 Posts: 5

Boy, I'm glad I got my copy couple months ago!

Hi Andrew! I'm from Shamokin PA - work at Bloomsburg! Old PSU grad!

I'm just really starting with the book (and Linux programming for that matter). But the book is good so far. I thought there might have been a better description of g_signal_connect_swapped() in chapter 2, but I eventually figured it out. I learned a good bit by modifying your button program to work with g_signal_connect instead.

I like that all the programs seem to compile & run 'as-is' without any fixes from me. I downloaded the source too.

I'm eager to proceed with learning Linux programming. I'm basically a Windows API style developer, and my favorite languages are C & C++, although for desktop Windows apps I usually use PowerBASIC.

So far in Linux I've tinkered with XLib, Motif, and most recently GTK.

This is a nice Forum. I know I'm getting ahead of myself in my learning endeavors, but I just yesterday got skimming ahead in the book looking for the GTK counterpart to Windows TextOut()/DrawText(), but didn't really find it. So I came here and did some searches and found at...

WON't LET ME POST LINK - I TOOK IT OUT

just what I was looking for! So far so good!

Fred