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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]