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<a name="gtk"></a>Part I. GTK+ Overview</h1></div></div></div>
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<p>
GTK+ is a library for creating graphical user interfaces. It
works on many UNIX-like platforms, Windows, and on framebuffer
devices. GTK+ is released under the GNU Library General Public License
(GNU LGPL), which allows for flexible licensing of client
applications. GTK+ has a C-based object-oriented architecture that
allows for maximum flexibility. Bindings for other languages have
been written, including C++, Objective-C, Guile/Scheme, Perl, Python,
TOM, Ada95, Free Pascal, and Eiffel.
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GTK+ depends on the following libraries:
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<td><p><span class="term">GLib</span></p></td>
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A general-purpose utility library, not specific to graphical user interfaces.
GLib provides many useful data types, macros, type conversions,
string utilities, file utilities, a main loop abstraction, and so on.
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<td><p><span class="term">Pango</span></p></td>
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Pango is a library for internationalized text handling. It centers
around the #PangoLayout object, representing a paragraph of text.
Pango provides the engine for #GtkTextView, #GtkLabel, #GtkEntry, and
other widgets that display text.
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<td><p><span class="term">ATK</span></p></td>
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ATK is the Accessibility Toolkit. It provides a set of generic
interfaces allowing accessibility technologies to interact with a
graphical user interface. For example, a screen reader uses ATK to
discover the text in an interface and read it to blind users. GTK+
widgets have built-in support for accessibility using the ATK
framework.
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<td><p><span class="term">GdkPixbuf</span></p></td>
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This is a small library which allows you to create #GdkPixbuf
("pixel buffer") objects from image data or image files.
Use a #GdkPixbuf in combination with #GtkImage to display images.
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<td><p><span class="term">GDK</span></p></td>
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GDK is the abstraction layer that allows GTK+ to support multiple
windowing systems. GDK provides drawing and window system facilities
on X11, Windows, and the Linux framebuffer device.
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<td><p><span class="term">GTK+</span></p></td>
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The GTK+ library itself contains <em class="firstterm">widgets</em>,
that is, GUI components such as #GtkButton or #GtkTextView.
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<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="gtk-building.html">Compiling the GTK+ libraries</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> —
How to compile GTK+ itself
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<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="gtk-compiling.html">Compiling GTK+ Applications</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> —
How to compile your GTK+ application
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<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="gtk-running.html">Running GTK+ Applications</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> —
How to run and debug your GTK+ application
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<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="gtk-x11.html">Using GTK+ on the X Window System</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> —
X11 aspects of using GTK+
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<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="gtk-windows.html">Using GTK+ on Windows</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> —
Windows-specific aspects of using GTK+
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<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="gtk-osx.html">Using GTK+ on Mac OS X</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> —
OS X-specific aspects of using GTK+
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<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="gtk-directfb.html">Using GTK+ on DirectFB</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> —
DirectFB-specific aspects of using GTK+
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<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="gtk-resources.html">Mailing lists and bug reports</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> —
Getting help with GTK+
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<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="gtk-question-index.html">Common Questions</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> —
Find answers to common questions in the GTK+ manual
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<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="chap-drawing-model.html">The GTK+ Drawing Model</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> —
The GTK+ drawing model in detail
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