I'm interested in writting up GTK/Hildon bindings for a scripting language. However, since I haven't done much GTK programming (I've managed to get through the tutorial though), is there a list of the most popular function calls that I should concentrate on first? It looks like there are several hundred GTK and related function calls, therefore it would take quiet a while for me to learn and implement them all. I'd like to start off with the most useful subset so that I can get something usefull out a bit quicker.

If anyones got a pointer to a prefered subset of GTK and Hildon functions, it would be appriciated.

I hate to disappoint you, but pretty much all of GTK and all Hildon is needed. Besides there's already excellent Python binding available - check out Pymaemo. It looks like the problem you're trying to solve is already more or less solved - unless you have something special in mind, in which case you need to give us more information.

You probably know about this link, but, just in case...

http://www.pygtk.org/pygtk2tutorial/index.html

If you are stuck with something specific, the cookbook is usually a good source of help too:
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python

The reason I was looking at writting up my own bindings is I've been working on designing and developing yet another interpreted language. It started out as a personal educational project, but then I started getting some feedback and have been making improvements based on what some of my users were wanting. And everytime I start adding something, I discover some additional needed constructs to through in there.

Since I've been looking at picking up an N800 (since they've gotten so cheap lately), and since there are a few apps that I'd like that don't exist yet for it, I figured what better way to exercise and strenghen my interpreter than to set up some gui bindings for it and see how far I can stretch the language. Plus, I'm not that big of a fan of Python (mostly because of the requirement to mark blocks of code by indententation level).

In case anyone is interested, the language I've been designing is called 2e (as in two E's, which stands for "expression evaluator"). (http://lang2e.sourceforge.net) The language is a weak-typed, dynamic typed imperative language with support for dynamic typed & untyped arrays, functions are call-by-reference, and supports first class functions and dynamicly loaded function libraries. The external function library support is what I want to excercise by writing up GTK/Hildon bindings.

I've gotten enought bindings defined to get through most of the standard GTK tutorial, but then started writting a code generator to try to automate as much of the process as possible. But looking through the GTK reference, it looks like there are several objects that would only be used rarely, so I was hoping to get a "readers digest" version that had maybe the top 50 or so most needed functions.

Another option I may consider is to write a code analyser that pulls out which functions are used in most of the available source packages on maemo.org.