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Title: Great book, excellent for starters, not quite perfect
Review: This book gave me an excellent overview of programming in GTK. The examples are great, but there were a few things that I did not like about it.Mr. Harlow tries to use full application code for explaining concepts. He should stick the full code in the Appendices and give more detailed explanation of what is essential in the body. Case in point: the chapter on developing your own widgets is pretty darned bad. The actual code example was fine, but I was uncertain about whether this is the norm or the exception.When presenting new commands, there sometimes is no explanation about what each of the arguments to the function mean. This is usually shown in the example code, but ...I look forward to reading Mr. Harlow's later editions of this same book, and I still would recommend this book to any beginning programmer in GTK. I wish there were more books like this one.
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