hope you can all you me it's not that you know and peace to free

to interrupted anytimes and questions

so the topic is G T K propagation developers and

i've

but not us but it's an abstract that wasn't really clear on what i was

going to do so well actually sit down to write prepared this talk i figured

and i want to try and just show some examples of what's possible this project

a K and i hope i can convey these examples that it's actually it's really

easy not to build country style applications as we expect them to be that they

had about that's

nicely nice transitions and all that stuff that you see in blocks and rather than

and these applications

this is dedicated point and

but most of the building block so that are in place and

it doesn't take that much work to get something like that off the ground

and i will show that in the series of examples

then i had his nine steps

yesterday's on going to show nine example sell forget so the

and at the end i will have something that looks a bit like an application

just really limited but that's something

hopefully inspiring and i did not prepare a slide so this instead i decided i

want this material to be available for the longer term so i will call as

actually wanna but examples they all available in the did okay so three itself sometime

last week

and that extra rolled around it is it's all available in the G D K

A P I documentation you have a tutorial section there and you check that right

so you can look on it up online if you want

it's available that solve

last week

and we'll see how well it actually works for talk it's an experiment so let

me know if it doesn't work more than five to do something else

so but before we step into the examples maybe it's were stepping back a little

bit and ask what actually is an application we learned from that out yesterday

how we things an application to look at the star trek future it's all the

single bundle that you can just download and run it without installation it will be

very cool but that's not quite where we are today so as of today applications

that have a number of things that need to be spread around to five system

and i just put up the list the of the things that are they obviously

it's the application binary itself expected will use a bit

then applications need to have a testify that's pretty from the established that the show

can actually displayed nicely and it also needs and i can for that obviously

and then every nontrivial applications will have some settings and for that we need a

setting schema and then they might be just a miscellaneous other resources like you i

files and whatnot

which you would ordinarily also spatter on the five system

but we actually have resources nowadays if you pay attention to the examples to see

that we actually get to put all those other resources inside the binary itself so

that's all already a pretty good step towards the

single file application future

that we want to get to

and don't here i'll talk a little bit about all the stuff that i'm hoping

to touch on the examples

i'm not gonna we the whole list here you can see this stuff to go

to so let's get to it

in stockholm building up a vacation

so the first thing to know about they don't want to use jic application here

which is the application class that you can provide so that yes

yes i know i just wanted to have the idea one line main functions like

i was willing to like except that league

so let's not go to too much on that the one thing to take away

he is that the main function is really not ready action is it's just the

one line that the really just creates an instance of obligation class and then we

college application on it and to give at the command of parameters minutes it

not much else to that's all the all the logic of application and all the

ending of command line options and all that is happening in the application class

so one and a little bit us a very trivial application classes we do some

plastic application for that that's the intended way of using it

and we used to the usual G object want to pay for that we don't

really implement anything here yet

just december entry points to applications this for instance if you just run the application

all about them not giving it any arguments then we have an entry point it's

called active at a

which is what is called when you in then you just run it by itself

and i have a kind of trivial application at implementation of that here which just

creates a new window and then presented

the entry point that i have implemented years opening files

so if you run the application and give it file filenames on the command line

well colour different into point it's called open and that gets an array of files

and in this implementation here not much is happening we just

again we created i would know and then we call this

open function for each of the files and

magic might happen the functional not

and that's about it one thing to maybe briefly possible look at is

that creating an application

subclass you always want to have an application id that's kind important because that's really

very central concept in the board of the application you really want to have an

application id which is used as the last name and it seems just of ideally

you system in for the best of file and all those things so we need

a unique identifier for the implication

and that's this idea here

that's not a of this fairly trivial skeleton implementation is that just saw for that

at some places i created windows

and those and those are actually instances of this class example up a little

which is a subclass of G T K application bundle and

again this is an entirely empty imitation does nothing but than necessary scalable is a

so it's a question like the last slide would be one line and it's this

main what do you can tax you bind text domain is that handled for you

and you have to shine directly or should and i mean as well i only

glanced over that here but i guess you would have to do some setup work

for that and okay so you do that automatically there's no magic that's just a

matter don't know okay

maybe my dad that if you to i don't know that

so maybe things are changing that offer knowledgeable if you wanted internationalisation you have to

set that up

okay

last thing that i have in this initial example is that we also one and

i can attest of file up is the created some

model like i can dare think the game for five minutes

and

the decibel it after five years also very couple of i just put an ad

in the idea

just to cheat a little bit because i'm running one able runs that location in

a minute and i'm actually running it uninstalled so i have to actually catch to

like being here

to make that work

and we actually switch to

running his example

should also take first

this is inside the G T K so it is an examples directory and if

you look and that

this nine subdirectories which contain examples and i'm going to here

and right now i'm stepping into the first one

and it's already component are running it

who this my educational it's not very exciting admittedly

doesn't really contain anything it doesn't even will the title

but

notice that the channel already picks up the it has some five

and find see i can we just because i she did a little bit and

put the i can in the whole local share i can somewhere and up to

justify there's also just that this works you

and realised of course it's all these files and user share somewhere

have it worked that way

so it's not very impressive but admittedly we didn't write much good either and

well there's not much to see this already

it's a football geolocation which has a presence on the bus a single instance

characteristics

and it technically also kind of file so right now i just activated that are

running it without arguments but it could give it a

an argument like this

well nothing else happens because we'd have implemented the open function yet but at least

it accepts the adamant

and things are set up for the next

so step to is

this winter was twenty so yes

it's annoying isn't

so they're not here

and then for that

okay so i'm next that is still

get some content and the window so that we are using something that if you

went to just on stock just before lunch you probably talked about ten that's

maybe you didn't did you

okay so we're using complex this is all just on that in the last year

or two and it finally landed in G T K

so what's attempted is likely you i follicles want to use to editing that's great

operating late

and

just like that you can see the beginning of the file

the my main difference between that and the directional you i find is that attempted

actually define say it complex which is like a container with internal structure

and you can use clay for populating that instead of having to manually writing in

that function that that's G T K contain i had of this G T K

box next out of that and handily really write a lot of code for populating

your constructed your complex you are you can one adding like know which is really

pretty nice

and so he is our initial and that

you can see we have a defining the example happen a class that i showed

earlier

maybe just pack a few things in the first of all we set some useful

properties like to be no title and the people size

maybe put in the box and they have the populate the box that i had

about a stack

you can stick and didn't and inside the had about we have a stack switching

and i see these which it and actually in a minute

but first able to stop briefly and show how we actually get to use this

template so now we just click on the set

you i file

and

to make use of it for actually defining application middle class we because a function

called G T K widget class set template from resource

which finds this templates

to our

or subclass

and i talk about the results that in a minute bottom that's the first step

the other step is that then we actually instantiate this class integrated application the know

in the in a function for that we have to called you can project in

the template actually use the template and populate our instance

it's a two steps for using attempted

and i touched on that earlier be using resources

and

that means that we actually take this window dot U I for the to the

national italian fee turn it into a

resource hundred happy then link into our education binary

that's done using the tool called

gina compile resources and do the proper resources takes

it's input like we tell it what actually to compile into that resource bundle by

but in this little excellence that up there

and i'm not gonna get too much into it if you want to really look

into that you can check out examples

in the repository that's all hooked up with the makefile you can see actually running

looking let me switch back to actually running this example now

so we are stop to

and i'm running it again

but

as you can see the windows not entirely empty at this point you have

obviously we have the window title and if you if you look at the top

of them and you can kind of see the and you had about their which

it's not really prominent of the that's gonna get populated in the next steps

well no this is just basis for the work

okay so that's me is

we want to actually populate the speculated that we put in place an ultimate upon

that out and we want to

i to act what you know if you can are already passed financial the command

line so the next have a step we actually want to open these files and

children

for that

because if you know features that want to mention

all example brno class now case a private start

you can see to find out there that contains just one on i'm not currently

this stack pointer there

and there's a new way actually just change recently you the way it used to

be for private starts that you use to call

G type class at try that in your class in a function and we turned

that around to cycle and we actually made that more declarative so now the new

way of doing this is that you use G define typhus private and that that's

automatically on seems

we don't have to do anything anymore in your class function for this

and it is that you can do something else in your class in a function

which is

well you can use

this somewhat magic thing here called G T K widget last

find template right private that's quite a most well i think that's the content of

a long as function name and G T K

i couldn't really how it need to be that long to fit all the naming

patterns and everything else so what does this do

just for the should things behind the scene so we give it the example happened

or name

and we give it a name of variables that there and

what's happening behind the scene is that this instructs you to create a

because to use the private various function it knows that it actually is supposed to

look in the private struck that's also associated press example happen all so example up

in the private

and

should look for this stack member in it

and it showed populate definitely

that which it from the template that escorts that

so this is one of the magic not at actual this that when we get

to a instance and it function we can rely on the fact that the

the staff member in our private structures is pointing to the better that we want

to point to

so there's not a lot of hassle manually look and also

i don't know that's a question from under

okay so this was just preparatory work for actually

doing some actual logic here i'm not gonna explain this in detail

this is the code to create a store dwindle great attacks to inside it and

open the file that was passed as an argument

and populate the text to with the contents of that file

one thing that's worth pointing out us some venom at all this a line the

record it a stack at titled

that is very actually at the

this more brno S A H in our state so to speak

and

we give it very unique identifier for that we just use the basin of the

file and then there's another argument which is

did a display title to actually show in the you know i will see that

the be obvious one so run it

and the other one thing i want to say about that is that the display

type is obviously going to be displayed but this text which i would just the

rolls of caps

but we don't have to touch this text which at all you because

this text which are just getting all this data needs to know how many types

display able to show and then by looking at the at the stack that is

associated with

so the problem

so i'm switching back to running as well

well that's magic now we actually have contended it looks like a real application of

so let me make is a little bit and actually given files

i don't know that's a question for the design as i think i mean i

think about available for this case

and

i would i'm sure the designers would do time we often find something wrong about

it works so

good things to say it is that you see this text which are now that's

the like the two buttons updated

those get created but it's text which are

and you know the

the content of the file at U C obviously council

from the function i just showed you and we can

actually switch between them and it works so that that's you can stack and you

can stick switcher

connection

i just keep moving on is this questions feel free to interrupt me at any

time

next this we want to resolve a little more that an application menu i don't

need to say too much evolved modification men us and how it works

well dive right into how you do this

and also get specified by educator that you iphone

like this one here

and i don't think i should say too much and details about the syntax you

can see that we actually created menu element which is a menu not surprisingly and

they can be sections in there

and items and the items have

a couple of at a good see a we set a label which is what's

gonna going to shop in the U I

and then we have an action for each item

which is what's going to get activated and you have to check on that menu

item

and actually used is you i for an obligation we need to call G T

K application setup menu

and a good place to do that is in the startup before

of your energy application

i mentioned earlier that you application as a number of different entry points like it

has an active right does it open or you could activated by directly calling in

action

and how you activated how you started there's always a startup different that it gets

caught no matter what

so that's a good place to do things that you want to happen in all

the cases

because if you have to actually

get a lot

you are funded i just so

and then we

well you get the menu model

that the data constructed format and we called you get jic application setup menu

which does all the work behind the scenes just this puts us stuff on the

bus on the session but also the show picks it up from there so that's

a lot of things that are happening behind the scenes of that's right

right i did not really get into the difference between finer primary and secondary instance

but you're so right points out that G application as this concept of single instance

which are briefly mentioned earlier and that means there's a primary instance which is actually

fourty flash running application and if you start again on the command line it's not

gonna open set second binary but just

talk to the primary instance

and the startup function i said it gets run no matter what it only gets

run in the province but if you're if you're starting at or second time and

doesn't actually launch something them started with not

okay that's a fair point

going back to this i said earlier in a financial to you have a if

you to be mention applications like each item as an associated action

and so we need to somehow bring these actions into

into being and that's what what's happening actually four lines up here

we call a function called G action map at actually entries

which is

also a lot of work that's happening by the scenes that school of a little

bit

you can actually see the add entries irate if you pass in there

this looks very similar to what we what we have and how to indicate for

the longest time which is a G T K action entry every

and this is just basically the same kind of idea translated into G action sort

of detection

so we are creating to actions one is as the name preferences minus on this

and it could

just a student to do that you saw the U I five before

and we have you be also specify the activate callbacks you like could activated it's

called in the collection is activated preferences activated escort

when preferences you preference actions activated

that's actually try that out

so not to step for

that you have to have an

vision and you know yes it's there so the shell has successfully picked up

menu the other people on the bus

and that S which it shows of the preferences and could menu item

no one click on preferences

nothing happens that's because the preferences activity function that i just is percent these of

us nothing

exciting is going on but it is fully functional

just works and a little bit want to show that

you may not more may not what is it but for the for the could

i don't actually specified a keyboard accelerator people talk out in the U I for

the expected one controlled you

and when i had control to here

also works or that is already hooked up

and the next that will be to make the preferences menu item actually something

well that i'm moving on to the next step

which is

soon so how preferences work

and

we want our preferences obviously to be remembered from one run of the application for

the next are we gonna use G settings to number them

and for using G settings the first step is always to that you need a

schema for a settings

which is another type of X M L file actually here

is fairly minimal scheme are just system to settings and it the one is

a font the unless a transition time

there's some magic that you need to do some magic intent incantations that you need

to do to make it make use of the scheme or you have to compile

it but you have to like

installed icexml from the right location and then you call gina comply schemas to

it's gotta be have some autoconf

macros to make that

the little easier if you're using all the tools

so i'm not gonna dive into the details of how to do that let's just

assume

that we can figure that out

and so now we have a disk in that case

which means you can actually now use our settings and for that

we need to quality settings new to obtain an instance of our settings

object

and

the next thing we do is we use a very convenient functionality of T settings

which is finding

so we have this settings here actually earlier which is about the other which was

called transition

and we just find that too

remember pressed accuracy

it's a pointer that points to the do you can stack which is that we

have in our window somewhere

and the do you can stack it's a property that's called transition type

and i would just by deciding to the

to the property

and that's all we need to do to make the reject reactor the changes of

the setting

there's some educated and i'm not gonna get into right now

it's even better than

then i'm telling

so let's

let's see if i can actually because

so remember we don't have a preference dialogue get that we have hooked up to

setting service

going to see and if i can actually

prove to you that if i don't change the settings

on the command line using the G settings commitment to

i hope that something is

as i mean i was gonna less impressive that wanted because the window was hidden

but you can see that the

the application actually picked up my phone so strange before was one space to open

autumn especially

but obviously using the command line for these kind of changes it's not ideal so

we want to

a preference dialogue so that that's move on and constructive

obviously be we use all the same things that we've already used to be again

right attempted five for this dialogue this time it's a

it's a subclass of you could dialogue can see appear

and i'm not gonna go to listen detail but you can see that we populated

that they

some labels and the data from that they're gonna use for the phone probably obviously

and the little further down

is a combo box that using for the this transition property which is three possible

values

and i'm specifying them right in the in the template

and then

you obviously a great a subclass of ticket dialogue for this

using the standard

so there's all the same one i played and i showed you for our occasional

you find type of private that business

and we do the same tended finding that we did for vacation and when this

time you do it for a preference dialogue

we again obtain an instance of our settings you

percent X

and again we use the settings finding functionality combine

or settings this time to bite into the controls we have in the dialogue actually

the changing

so for the for the font setting the use the

the functional

and for the position settings use this combo box

i didn't actually pointed out that the name of that budget in the time that

five was position

and

there's a lot more part of it here

on think we still have to do is

we created this preferences activated callback for the action but it was empty so we

know need to go back to it and

make it actually created you instance of a preference dialogue and present that

and

so let's go back and see how that looks

you can see of all font settings change from last one got remembered across to

be stuff

and

no tricking preferences again and a test our preference that'll and it has the things

that i pointed out earlier in the that so there's a one choose a

chose the value that we just sat in the on the command line

and that's the combo box for the transition

just gonna briefly pause and show what it actually does

change the slide

and if i know change taps here

actually any mates so this is a new feature indicates that

as opposed to the old do you can notebook

you can actually do nice animated transitions here the other one that i have it

here in the preference dialogue i'm gonna show that as well as the cross fade

so for change to that then

you can kind of see the cross fade happening here

so that's a nice new feature of you can stack which is made possible by

all the frame based drawing like that owned it the last year

okay well known

this application starting to look like an application that's fairly minimal so will add a

few more bits of functionality here

the next that is very common and don't see application research that's obviously very central

so i want to show how to make be

research entry here that looks somewhat similar to what we have another one applications

product we the use do you can search entry which is just a subclass of

do you can feel it has a bit of extra functionality

to make a certain like basically a button and it has see extra signal that

kind of patches the changes things like that and then we used to do concerts

but i would just and you a budget

which lets you

place such country and maybe some other divided you might need and content in relation

to that

in inside a

toolbar model stick and slide in from the top

let's see how we actually use those

so they go back to our

have that for application than or

and the and if you extra things

right we had a probable so they had a bar

the be much easier to see that men i run the application and i'm just

pointing out how this looks and they

covered

and

no further down

between the had about the stack you know put a search by

the search but contains a search entry

and

what we also do here is

we hook up this segment of for the search changed signal of the searching for

you might you know that have that right so we don't have too many legal

ninety six not connect to know

so once again this reduces

the amount of menu cool to have to be produced

and obviously implementing search actually takes quite a bit of work i'm not gonna go

to that in detail here but i just wanted to

if you show that there see the main did to be for this work us

having a second like he has touched exchange which gets called

whenever you talk a new character in your surgery

and then we would do magic was text you just to find the first match

for that you know text

and

one vector

like a couple again

so it is well you can see the

there's of like on is that all the button that i mentioned

if i click that's

so sparse lights in the such entry

and i can type something like

so just

that's kinda need

escape i think

okay

so

that's already pretty good

but you can at the present a little more functionality you before but i'm not

so

think it's a step eight of nine so i might actually gets too much steps

supposed to learn that

sidebar

i really have to like wracked my brain to come up is some example that

lets me put in as many of the new but just as possible so i

cannot this let me let me know that that's totally ridiculous but at least it

gets the don't drop down definitional do you can menu button did you can reveal

and you can just box set

so once again we

go back into our tempted

and we are just sort you that we added top to bottom

we know at a menu button next to that that's down here you can menu

button

and then going for the down

and maybe used to have the G T K stack

we know

wrap that inside you get box and

put a

a little extra

before it is actually i was audible so we put something left

which is a G T K with you know that contains a list box in

the school window

and

it's a little more xml here to show

i said that i put a menu button there i didn't actually tell you where

the menus coming from that's yet another

the U I for that actually here

which is really virtually identical to the syntax of the one that i showed you

polyak menu it's just another

you i five to be find a gym anymore

in this case i just put a single item in there right now

just a label words and they know the action here words

and obviously i need to tell you where that actually comes from

so we go back to this is actually to go back you can

i so i called action show works but actually the U I five says when

dot show words

the window hottest this goebbels the action so the actions we saw before for the

application manoeuvre applications goal actions which we defined in

in the startup function of the application

but there can also be we know school actions

and the can i mention here is that you refer to those by putting went

off as the prefix the name

and obviously in brno school action should not be defined in the G application startup

function but it should be specific to the rental so we at that action in

the in the function of our example than a class

and the last three lines that actually but it happens

in this case we use a settings actually

which is a neat little this integrate to take one of audio settings

in this case it's setting called sure words and just wrap actually and actually wanted

and

activating the action will have that we change the value of the setting

this case the setting this is leon and

the settings action who just probably and every time you activated

that's a very convenient way to make settings available to the you live in the

form of actions

and but that i'm switching back to show you know that looks

okay so

next a lot of the button up there

is to get something you know

menu button

click connect

is the menu item that i just

mystified

and if i actually

product

decide partials up and you saw that it actually slides and that's what the really

knows doing it cannot that's the animated

reveal

and inside they really lazy

in this box here this block so i could can spend an entire talked us

talking about do you can this box and what that's about it doesn't do but

it is essentially it's just a container that is

it's meant to contain lots of digits and it has

functionality that you normally associate with the but that review like it can filter can

consult the items that are contained in it

but the to the defining difference between this and the triggers that

it shows actually is that which it it's not a seven day which is kind

of a different layout model so this is nice if you want to have a

list

but you want to have actual july and it's not necessarily just data-driven

giant data is

and since i have to come up to something for this example adjust

created buttons one button for each button my text and if i click on one

of those buttons

research again so this december

make this example but meaningful

right

and i just saw the movie to hide itself again

so we don't

almost and this is the last step

but i've been about them of this like first it had only it's that's actually

and then ryan came back to me and said okay just reason like probably actions

because that's need to so i went back and i racked my brain a little

more and try to come up with some way of showing property actions

so what what's that about

which is all and a topic so if you have lots of useful properties and

it's a it's a said earlier these settings action but it just showed it's a

very convenient way to make settings accessible to do you want to from corrections

and there similarly G property action does the same thing for properties of widget object

and

we'll see how that works

so i'm not going in all the details here but just explaining what what's happening

here we have seen to have to go back to our camp that again and

be i'm adding a two labels

pulled out of our

the names are lines label lines actually get again just talk about it and then

we go to our

the U I for it defines the geeky a menu

and be out at the second item there

the name lines and

but they are the new action show lines

which now would be a property action

so i have to show you know that is done

and again it's done in the in a function of all in the class and

it is the first line there's

G property actually you so we specify the name show lines and then we

we use the lines object

and you probably expect by now that pretty lines is another

point a very banal prime instructed gets magically populated finally

gee wouldn't you can window class pine temperature a lot well

so that's for that one little that we just added

and use the visible property of the label and we have another boolean target actually

here

and

yet another thing that i squeezed in this last that is that

but only can be do that but we can also

use

object binding here logistic in a nice way to basically connect properties of different objects

and keep them and so

so that's what we're using here to assess at the at to labels but we

always want them to become visible invisible together so we can adjust we use do

you object buying property to just connect the visible property of these two widgets

so when i when i show the first one the second one automatically get shown

as well

let me show you look something about it yes

okay so

rest of them here's our new menu item lines i just quit that

metropolis

to label simply here

and show you the code for actually counting the lines the text

as well that that's interesting to taps

it actually a baseline count you

and if i top and the property again

most of them disappeared the same time because that was the properties are all together

and

that was the last step so i'm actually

and on the my samples

i'll be and what that and if you have any questions free to ask

thanks to take a break from this i hope are but it's actually really not

hard automatic norm three style vacation using

bits and pieces that are available in typically master now so it's tickets we can

all of this would be

would be at your disposal and

actually did a line count you on the last step you that most complete example

that i have comes onto some five hundred lines of C code and some two

hundred lines of you across

so that's not too bad considering it see

no i that i used to be a for this

but i hope late what we have to it as well that's just

yes

can repeat the question mark

okay

yes this first of all as i said earlier these examples including all the makefile

integration everything is available the G T K source tree so you can go then

local actually that this that's make for the yams

there's also a various documentation for instance the i pointed out at some point is

that we should some macros in G I L actually for the for the schema

compilation part and there's a link that's of the G I O documentation but that's

explain

and

maybe have documentation for some for the resource part of so an actual about that

okay so some of this might not be wrapped a nice macros

but some of it is and for the parts that are there should be documentation

somewhere inside the G I O documentation but that's not necessarily easy to find so

i try to put links to that in this

right that's a that's a good exactly actually

so there's a there's a nice you way of writing documentation hold how do i

that wind kicked off and this drumming

drumming for which

that that's available i think it's a one about resources maybe not yet but

we should make one available

so there's more questions or nothing i want to say is that this is the

location where you can actually find all of all of this online this is the

D A P I documentation where

that i just wanted to other point out that i found a few box and

in the documentation gonna bend over this last night so but i showed you was

my local fixed build and that will be all our online but the next you

can release

and this is a the G T K sources and you can see the night

subdirectories where i ran

these examples

thank you next time

and questions

okay thank you