GTK vs GTKmm

[fredwilby]

I was hoping to program gtk apps, so I bought a book, Foundations of gtk+ development, however, my primary language is c++, and I later learned that gtkmm is the c++ library for gtk. Is programming in gtk a lot differernt than gtkmm i.e. will I be able to use that book to learn gtkmm?

[Cabhan]

gtkmm basically takes the awkward pseudo-object-oriented interface of Gtk for C and turns it into an actual OO interface in C++. To my knowledge, it is no different besides this. Every class and behaviour in Gtk is replicated, just it's actually OO, as opposed to trying to make C OO.

From the official gtkmm FAQ:

2.2. How complete is it?

gtkmm tries to offer all of the functionality offered by GTK+. This means that you should be able to do anything with gtkmm that's supported by GTK+, and do it more easily. If something isn't covered then we want to know about it.

So I suspect that it won't be too different, you'll just need to mentally translate between functions and methods.