Info: works on windows

[gavr123456789]

Info: works on windows

[gavr123456789]

Contract programming done.

Manual will updates later.
Now I'm thinking how to compress that giant response with stack overflow. And whether the answer to it is not already scattered throughout the manual.

[naipotato]

Yes, I know 😃

But its integration is not too good, mostly cause Adwaita was not designed with Windows in mind. Also, there are no animations when resizing the window and the snap animation looks pretty weird.

However, when I have something ready and usable on Linux I will check if there are details I can polish for an optimal Windows experience

[gavr123456789]

GNOME recommends use special gtk theme on windows https://www.gtk.org/docs/installations/windows/#building-and-distributing-your-application
Also u can look how this guy solve that https://birdfont.org/

By the way, just wondering why you chose vala? And how does it feel to program in it compared to other languages?

[naipotato]

I don't know if this looks good, the title bar is too big for Windows standards (cause I'm using HdyViewSwitcher and maybe the theme is not prepared for that)

Also Birdfont does not use Client Side Decorations, so it is Windows that handles animations when resizing and snapping

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By the way, just wondering why you chose vala? And how does it feel to program in it compared to other languages?

Well, I had some experience with C# in Windows, so Vala feels very familiar. What has surprised me and required some effort on my part has been the lack of documentation you have. For example, I had to find out via StackOverflow about the reasons for the existence of the construct block, there are also things described in the Tutorial that do not appear in the manual, there are even things that appear in the tutorial for C# programmers that do not appear in any other side.

Beyond that, I am very happy with Vala and its current growth (I love Ben Waffle's language server, and I'm super excited for GVls). I feel that elementary has greatly boosted its use and that favored the appearance of new projects written in this language.

[gavr123456789]

Oh nice, what a coincidence, "you came to the right place". I'm a trusted gnome editor(I can edit a gnome site) and I was just about to put the Vala wiki in order, recently I've been sorting projects into dead/not dead, adding links to places where you can ask questions, companies that use vala, and stuff like that.

So send a link to the question that you asked on stack, tell me what exactly is in the guide for C# that is not in the main, and what other suggestions there are, I will fix it on the wiki within 2 days.

PS And I'm porting the main guide to a more convenient and modern look, but so far only in Russian. https://vala.gitbook.io/vala/examples/basic (This page on eng)

[naipotato]

Well, the question is not mine, but the same was very useful for me to undestand the reason for the existence of the construct block and not just use the construct method like other OO languages

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33003942/vala-different-type-of-constructors

I cannot find what exactly was in the "Vala for C# programmers" and not in the main right now,

Also, I do not why this is not in the manual, cause it's very useful.

And this...

there are a lot of TODOs in the manual. Luckily for contract programming there are some examples on the tutorials, but you know, the best is to have all the things in just one place

That's all I can say atm. If I remember/find more things later, I'll let you know

[naipotato]

Great, I see then that the Vala manual and all the wiki related will be better every day :)

I'll close this since is not related to the project anymore, we can still talking about this on matrix if you want to (I found you there)