GTK+ tutorial

last modified January 6, 2022

This is a GTK+ programming tutorial. In this tutorial, we will learn the basics of GUI programming in GTK+ and C language. The GTK+ tutorial is suitable for beginners and intermediate programmers. This tutorial covers GTK+ 2.

Table of contents

• Introduction
• First programs
• Menus and toolbars
• Layout management
• Events
• Dialogs
• Widgets
• Widgets II
• GtkTreeView widget
• GtkTextView widget
• Custom GTK+ widget

GTK+

GTK+ is a library for creating graphical user interfaces. The library is created in C programming language. The GTK+ is also called the GIMP Toolkit. Originally, the library was created while developing the GIMP image manipulation program.

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