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Pro PHP-GTK
PHP is gaining positive reputation for its system administration and client-side application development capabilities. This administration and development is accomplished using the PHP-GTK extension. You can take advantage of client-side applications by implementing language bindings for the GTK (the GIMP Toolkit) library for creating cross-platform
graphical user interfaces.
Pro PHP-GTK acts as both a definitive reference and a hands-on tutorial to the PHP-GTK extension. The book couples the extension's key topics with practical examples to guide you through a real-world project: developing a database-driven client-side inventory manager. You'll also learn how to integrate this feature with other emerging technologies like SOAP and RSS, and how to generate XML-based interfaces.
Pro PHP-GTK
Scott Mattocks
Pro PHP-GTK
Copyright 2006 by Scott Mattocks
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Contents at a Glance
About the Author . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv
About the Technical Reviewer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii
Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix
■CHAPTER 1 Introducing PHP-GTK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
■CHAPTER 2 Installing PHP-GTK. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
■CHAPTER 3 Understanding PHP-GTK Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
■CHAPTER 4 Handling Events and Signals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
■CHAPTER 5 Getting an Application Up and Running . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
■CHAPTER 6 Laying Out Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
■CHAPTER 7 Displaying and Collecting Simple Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
■CHAPTER 8 Using Multiline Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
■CHAPTER 9 Working with Trees and Lists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
■CHAPTER 10 Scrolling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
■CHAPTER 11 Adding Menus and Toolbars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
■CHAPTER 12 Adding Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
■CHAPTER 13 Drag-and-Drop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
■CHAPTER 14 Using Selectors & Dialogs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
■CHAPTER 15 Doing Background Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303
■CHAPTER 16 Changing the Look and Feel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
■CHAPTER 17 Distributing PHP-GTK Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333
■INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347
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