Re: Glib::, Gdk::, Gtk::

[Matthias Kaeppler <nospam digitalraid com>]

Ole Laursen wrote:
> Matthias Kaeppler <nospam digitalraid com> writes:
>
>
> > what's the point of the different namespaces? What's e.g. the
> > difference between the Gdk and Gtk namespaces? And what is Glib?
>
>
> Gdk is from the C library GDK, the drawing kit that GTK+ is using to
> draw its widgets with (e.g. drawing lines and rectangles). It has a
> lot of other low-level graphics and input stuff too. It is basically a
> wrapper around the native graphical platform, as far as I know.
>
> Gtk is from the C library GTK+, a widget set. Glib is a C library with
> commonly needed basic functionality, e.g. linked lists, hash tables,
> unicode strings, etc. If glib had been part of libc, I don't think C
> itself would be such a horrible environment to work with. :-)
>
> Look here for more info:
>
>   www.gtk.org
>
> Gtkmm is wrapping each of the libraries separately, that's why there
> is a difference in namespace. GDK and GTK+ are very closely related
> and bundled together.

Thanks a lot, Ole.

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Matthias Kaeppler