Wednesday, March 26, 2008

what is gtkmm

Gtkmm is the C++ wrappers for GTK+ APIs
we can develop a object oriented UI design using
gtkmm. Those who are more comfortable with OO for
UI may prefer this.Events can be provided using libsigc++.

samples are available in www.gtkhelp.com

what is Glade?

glade is tool to design UI based on gtk.
Glade generates either XML file
called a .glade file which can be loaded
directly loaded at runtine using libglade API's
or we can generate C/C++ code using GTK+ wrappers.
Glade 2.0 allows code generation in C.
for more details visit or login to www.gtkhelp.com

why gtkhelp.com?

This blog as well as www.gtkhelp.com is started
to contribute to UI development using the one of
the best C based GUI toolkit called GTK+.
Now gtk has GUI wrappers in perl,python,php,ruby,c,c++,java,gtksharp etc.Gtk+
toolkit was ported to different platforms like linux and unix flavours,MAC,Windows,Embedded Linux platforms.Even there are
SDKs available which are ported on Mobile platforms.
Maemo,OpenMoko,handhelds,org(GPE) are some frameworks
even use gtk+ toolkit.
GNOME - one of the famous linux Desktop environment is
based on GTK+.
Advantages of using GTK+ is that it allows lot of
flexibility in developing new widgets.
www.gtkhelp.com is designed to help developers to
get sample code and develop new projects on GTK+
for mobile platforms as well as for Desktop.