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As shown in the table below, GTK has a range of bindings for various languages that implement some or all of its feature set. GTK 2 is no longer supported, meaning some languages below do not have current GTK support.
- GObject (GOB) was initially written as a central component of GTK, but outsourced into GLib.
- GObject Introspection is a middleware layer between C libraries (using GObject) and language bindings, e.g. PyGObject uses this, while PyGTK does not.
- Official GNOME Bindings follow the GNOME release schedule which guarantees API stability and time-based releases.
- Glade Interface Designer
| Language | Name | Supported? | License | Notes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.24 | 3.12 | 4.0 | GIR | Official | ||||
| Ada | GtkAda | Partial | Partial | ? | Yes | No | GPL-3 | Supported up to 3.14. |
| C | GTK | Yes | Yes | Yes | — | Yes | LGPL-2.1 | Native, no binding needed. |
| C++ | gtkmm | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | LGPL-2.1 | |
| C# and other CLI languages | Gtk# | Partial | No | ? | No | Yes | LGPL-2.1 | Support for GTK 2 is available up to 2.12. |
| GtkSharp | No | Yes | No | No | No | LGPL-2.1 | Support for GTK 3 is available up to 3.22. | |
| Gir.Core | ? | ? | Partial | Partial | No | MIT | ||
| Crystal | crystal-gobject | No | Yes | Partial | Yes | No | BSD | |
| gtk4.cr | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | MIT | ||
| D | GtkD | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | No | LGPL-3 with exceptions | Supported since 2.12 |
| Erlang | gtknode | Partial | No | ? | No | No | MIT | No, partly supported up to 2.16 |
| Fortran | gtk-fortran | Partial | Partial | Partial | No | No | GPL-3 | Supported since 2.24. Supports GTK 3 and GTK 4. |
| FreeBASIC | FreeBASIC GTK bindings | Yes | Partial | ? | No | No | LGPL-3 with exception | Supported up to 3.4 and since 2.8, integrated into the core distribution. |
| Gambas | Gambas gb.gtk component | Yes | Partial | ? | No | No | GPL-2 | Secondary to the primary Qt components |
| Genie | Genie | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | LGPL-2.1 | language written for GObject system |
| Go | go-gir-generator | ? | ? | ? | Yes | No | GPL-3 | |
| gotk3 | No | Partial | ? | No | No | ISC | ||
| Guile | guile-gnome | Partial | No | ? | No | No | GPL-2 | supported up to 2.12, partly supported on 2.14 |
| Haskell | Gtk2Hs | Yes | Partial | ? | No | No | LGPL-2.1 | Gtk2Hs is a set of Haskell bindings to many of the libraries included in the GTK/GNOME platform. |
| haskell-gi | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | LGPL-2.1 | Generate Haskell bindings for GObject Introspection capable libraries | |
| J | J GTK addon | Partial | No | ? | No | No | GPL-3 | |
| Java and other JVM languages | java-gnome | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | GPL-2 with exception | Unavailable on Microsoft Windows |
| Julia | Gtk.jl | Yes | Yes | ? | No | No | MIT | Includes Glib support |
| JavaScript | Gjs | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | MIT | GNOME wiki, based on Mozilla's SpiderMonkey |
| Node-Gtk | No | Yes | Partial | Yes | No | MIT | Dynamic Node.js binding to GObject libraries using GObject-Introspection. | |
| Seed | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | LGPL-2.1 | GNOME wiki, based on WebKit's JavaScriptCore | |
| Kotlin/Native | gtk-kt | No | Partial | Partial | Partial | No | AGPL-3.0 | Partial due to being In development, Usable to an extent. |
| gtk-kn | No | No | No | Partial | No | LGPL-3 | Partial due to being In development, Usable to an extent. | |
| Lua | LGI | Partial | Yes | ? | Yes | No | MIT | Dynamic Lua binding to GObject libraries using GObject-Introspection. |
| lgob | No | Yes | ? | Yes | No | LGPL-3 | lgob provides bindings of GObject-based libraries for Lua 5.1. | |
| Nim | gintro | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | MIT | High level GObject-Introspection based GTK3/GTK4 bindings for Nim language |
| OCaml | LablGtk | Partial | Partial | ? | No | No | LGPL-2.1 with exception | No, supported up to 2.16 |
| ooRexx | RexxGTK | Partial | No | ? | No | No | CPL | Yes, 2.0 or later |
| Objective-C | CoreGTK | No | Partial | ? | No | No | LGPL-2.1 | |
| ObGTK | Partial | No | ? | No | No | LGPL-2.1 | ||
| Objective-C GTK | Partial | No | ? | No | No | LGPL-2.1 | ||
| Pascal | Free Pascal gtk package | Yes | Yes | ? | No | No | LGPL-3 with exception | Supported up to 2.24, integrated into the core distribution. Gtk 3.0 bindings are being developed in the Lazarus-ccr project. |
| Perl | Gtk2-Perl | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | LGPL-2.1 | |
| PHP | PHP-GTK | Partial | Partial | ? | No | No | LGPL-2.1 | PHP until 5.2, GTK is GTK2 |
| Prolog | PLGI | Partial | Yes | ? | Yes | No | LGPL-2.1 | Dynamic Prolog binding to GObject libraries using GObject-Introspection. |
| Python | pgi | Partial | Partial | ? | Yes | No | LGPL-2.1 | GObject Introspection Bindings for PyPy. |
| pygir-ctypes | Partial | Partial | ? | Yes | No | BSD | Pure Python GObject Introspection Repository (GIR) wrapper using ctypes. | |
| PyGObject | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | LGPL-2.1 | since 2.22 | |
| PyGTK | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | LGPL-2.1 | static bindings, use PyGObject | |
| R | RGtk2 | Partial | No | ? | No | No | GPL-2 | RGtk2.pdf Archived 2016-03-09 at the Wayback Machine |
| Racket | gir | ? | ? | ? | Yes | No | MIT | |
| Ruby | GirFFI-Gtk | Partial | Partial | ? | Yes | No | LGPL-2.1 | GirFFI-based bindings for GTK. Supports both GTK+ 2 and GTK+ 3. |
| Ruby-GNOME2 Archived 2008-08-21 at the Wayback Machine | Partial | Yes | Yes | No | No | MIT License | Partial, supported up to 2.12, partly supported since 2.14 | |
| Rust | gtk-rs | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | MIT | |
| gi-rust | No | Yes | ? | Yes | No | LGPL-2.1 | ||
| Smalltalk | GNU Smalltalk GTK+ bindings | Yes | No | ? | No | No | GPL-2 | |
| Smalltalk YX GTK plugin | Yes | No | ? | No | No | MIT | ||
| SqueakGtk | Partial | No | ? | No | No | MIT | ||
| Standard ML | Giraffe Library | No | Yes | ? | Yes | No | LGPL-2.1 | |
| Tcl | Gnocl | Yes | No | ? | No | No | BSD | |
| Vala | Vala | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | LGPL-2.1 | language written for GObject system |
| Wrapl | Wrapl GTK+ module | Partial | No | ? | No | No | GPL-3 | No, but almost full up to 2.22 |
Gtk#
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| Developer(s) | Xamarin |
|---|---|
| Initial release | March 12, 2004; 20 years ago (2004-03-12) |
| Stable release | 2.12.41 / September 22, 2016; 8 years ago (2016-09-22) |
| Preview release | 2.99.3 (for GTK3) / June 6, 2014; 10 years ago (2014-06-06) |
| Repository | https://github.com/mono/gtk-sharp |
| Written in | C#, XML, Perl, C |
| Operating system | Windows, macOS, Linux |
| Type | Widget toolkit |
| License | GNU Lesser General Public License |
| Website | mono-project |
Gtk# is a set of .NET Framework bindings for the GTK graphical user interface (GUI) toolkit and assorted GNOME libraries. The library facilitates building graphical GNOME applications using Mono or any other compliant Common Language Runtime (CLR). Gtk# is an event-driven system like any other modern windowing library where every widget allows associating handler methods, which get called when certain events occur.
Applications built using Gtk# will run on many platforms including Linux, Windows and macOS. The Mono packages for Windows include GTK, Gtk# and a native theme to make applications look like native Windows applications. Starting with Mono 1.9, running Gtk# applications on macOS no longer requires running an X11 server.
Glade Interface Designer can be used with the Glade# bindings to easily design GUI applications. A GUI designer named Stetic is integrated with the MonoDevelop integrated development environment (IDE).
In addition to support the standard GTK/GNOME stack of development tools, the gtk-dotnet.dll assembly provides a bridge to consume functionality available on the .NET stack. At this point this includes the functionality to use System.Drawing to draw on a widget.
As of September 2020, Gtk# support for Gtk3 remains in the preview phase and forked projects, such as GtkSharp, have been founded to provide full Gtk3 support for C# and other CLI languages. The lack of a released version of Gtk# with support for Gtk3 was cited as a reason to remove the Banshee media player in Ubuntu 12.04.
See also
- List of language bindings for Qt 4
- List of language bindings for Qt 5
- List of language bindings for wxWidgets
References
- "Language Bindings". The GTK Project. Archived from the original on 2011-07-13. Retrieved 2013-05-18.
- "GObject Introspection".
- "1. Introduction: What is GtkAda ? — GtkAda 22.0w documentation".
- "10. Object-oriented features — GtkAda 22.0w documentation".
- "GtkSharp | Mono".
- "GtkD License LGPL-3 with additional exceptions". GitHub. 19 November 2021.
- "gtknode license". GitHub. 11 March 2021.
- "gotk3 license". GitHub. 17 August 2021.
- "LGI license". GitHub. 20 November 2021.
- http://wiki.freepascal.org/Gtk%2B3
- Alexandre Pereira Bühler (2015-06-22). "Attention: created branch dev-php-gtk3". PHP-GTK General Mailing List.
- "PyGObject History". Retrieved 2013-08-29.
- "1. Main interface". GitHub. 6 February 2022.
- Ruby-GNOME2 Project Team. "gtk3 / Rubygems". Retrieved 2013-05-07.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - "GTK-rs license". GitHub. 17 November 2021.
- ^ "Gtk# is a Mono/.NET binding to the cross platform Gtk+ GUI toolkit and the foundation of most GUI apps built with Mono: mono/gtk-sharp". November 16, 2019. Archived from the original on March 11, 2016. Retrieved September 1, 2016 – via GitHub.
- "Download Gtk#". The GTK+ Project. Archived from the original on December 14, 2013. Retrieved December 23, 2014.
- "'Bansheegeddon' may see Banshee, Mono dropped from Ubuntu default". ITWorld. Archived from the original on July 10, 2015. Retrieved August 31, 2015.
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