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authorMatthias Clasen <mclasen@redhat.com>2020-08-13 17:45:04 -0400
committerMatthias Clasen <mclasen@redhat.com>2020-08-13 17:45:04 -0400
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docs: Minor tweaks to the tutorial
Fix a link, and mention meson in a few places.
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
-rw-r--r--docs/reference/gtk/getting_started.md12
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/docs/reference/gtk/getting_started.md b/docs/reference/gtk/getting_started.md
index 9e4803dcb2..f9a97d3814 100644
--- a/docs/reference/gtk/getting_started.md
+++ b/docs/reference/gtk/getting_started.md
@@ -732,7 +732,7 @@ GtkSearchBar, GtkListBox, and more.
The full, buildable sources for these examples can be found in the `examples/`
directory of the GTK source distribution, or
-[online](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/blob/master/examples in the GTK git
+[online](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/blob/master/examples) in the GTK git
repository. You can build each example separately by using make with the
`Makefile.example` file. For more information, see the `README` included in the
examples directory.
@@ -976,6 +976,10 @@ into the application together with the other source files. To do so, we use the
glib-compile-resources exampleapp.gresource.xml --target=resources.c --generate-source
```
+The gnome module of the meson build system provides the
+[gnome.compile_resources()](https://mesonbuild.com/Gnome-module.html#gnomecompile_resources)
+method for this task.
+
Our application now looks like this:
![The application](getting-started-app2.png)
@@ -1037,7 +1041,7 @@ example_app_window_open (ExampleAppWindow *win,
basename = g_file_get_basename (file);
- scrolled = gtk_scrolled_window_new (NULL, NULL);
+ scrolled = gtk_scrolled_window_new ();
gtk_widget_set_hexpand (scrolled, TRUE);
gtk_widget_set_vexpand (scrolled, TRUE);
view = gtk_text_view_new ();
@@ -1204,7 +1208,9 @@ a schema that describes our settings:
Before we can make use of this schema in our application, we need to compile
it into the binary form that GSettings expects. GIO provides
[macros](https://developer.gnome.org/gio/2.36/ch31s06.html) to do this in
-autotools-based projects.
+autotools-based projects, and the gnome module of the meson build system
+provides the [gnome.compile_schemas()](https://mesonbuild.com/Gnome-module.html#gnomecompile_schemas)
+method for this task.
Next, we need to connect our settings to the widgets that they are supposed
to control. One convenient way to do this is to use GSettings bind