What is GHangtux?
GHangtux is a free program variation of the popular Hangman game. It has been designed for people of all ages and has a simple, easy-to-use interface.
It provides a keyboard and a sentence/word to guess, whose theme, the player is able to select. Current themes are: films, objects and persons.
During the game, a graphic sequence of tux images will be displayed, indicating the player how many attempts he/she has left.
How to "create life" from some code lines?
1. Getting familiar with GTK+. As I wrote in the last post, I spent my first weeks at Openismus learning GTK+ and to put this into practice, I worked in a very small but helpful project. "Foundations of GTK+ Development" was very useful in this learning process and gave me a good base.
2. Making and correcting mistakes. The next step was to learn about all those mistakes I made, to repeat them and to relearn from them again. This is part of every single step actually.
3. Testing the new knowledge. After the first two steps, it seemed that I was prepare to start my first simple GTK+ application which is the very early version of the game.
4. Creating a custom widget. After playing with GTK+ a few more weeks, I decided to create my own custom widget: the game's keyboard. For this step, I found Davyd Madeley's clock widget tutorial quite handy.
5. Integration of the custom widget in the early version of GHangtux. This is the last version of the game.
What is coming next?
- Internationalization with i18n.
- More themes.
- More image themes.
- Shortcuts for the menus.
- Others: clutter, desktop files...
"Side effects" of having developed GHangtux?
- Learning Git and discovering how powerful this tool is.
- Learning Autotools helped by Alexandre Duret-Lutz's tutorial, and some Openismus manuals.
- Practicing C.
- Practicing Glade.
- Programming style.
- Improving my communication skills.
You can follow the project under the repository in GitHub or download it in .tgz or .zip. All comments are welcome, as are merge requests.
Enjoy!
