major event that represents a lot of time, effort, and
figuring things out. We're well underway now.
I'm gradually converting the gtk-demo metademo to C++,
adding wrappers where I find it necessary. These TreeView
and TextView and associated objects introduce a couple of
huge new APIs. C coders are going to take a while to get
used to it.
I just finished [...]

Elstner has been helping out a lot. People seem to approve
of the changes. I expect to release an alpha dist tomorrow.

Cactus, Joe Yandle, and Daniel Elstner
have started to help, and kenelson says
he'll be back soon. Everything is looking good.

to auto-generated GObject-based classes, which has
simplified the gdkmm memory model a lot.
We're using a smart pointer that refs the GObject
automatically, and I was pleased to find that, with a
templated copy-constructor, it's possible to use the smart
pointers polymorphically just like the underlying C++
classes.
This is consuming a lot of time. I need to get it done
and start [...]

mailed a request for some people to help out with some of the
easier stuff.
I'm becoming very optimistic about gtkmm 1.3,
particularly as I've succeeded in making the
wrapper-generation code
much easier to understand. In Karl's absence I might be
going out on a limb a bit with some of my changes, but it's
all in the name of making things [...]