Gtk2 - Perl interface to the 2.x series of the Gimp Toolkit library
SYNOPSIS
use Gtk2 -init;
# Gtk2->init; works if you didn't use -init on use
my $window = Gtk2::Window->new ('toplevel');
my $button = Gtk2::Button->new ('Quit');
$button->signal_connect (clicked => sub { Gtk2->main_quit });
$window->add ($button);
$window->show_all;
Gtk2->main;
ABSTRACT
Perl bindings to the 2.x series of the Gtk+ widget set.
This module allows you to write graphical user interfaces in a
perlish and object-oriented way, freeing you from the casting
and memory management in C, yet remaining very close in spirit
to original API.
DESCRIPTION
The Gtk2 module allows a perl developer to use the Gtk+ graphical user
interface library. Find out more about Gtk+ at http://www.gtk.org.
The GTK+ Reference Manual is also a handy companion when writing Gtk
programs in any language. http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/
The perl bindings follow the C API very closely, and the C reference
documentation should be considered the canonical source.
To discuss gtk2-perl, ask questions and flame/praise the authors,
join gtk-perl-list@gnome.org at lists.gnome.org.
Also have a look at the gtk2-perl website and sourceforge project page,
http://gtk2-perl.sourceforge.net
Gtk2::Gdk::Keysyms(3pm) contains a hash of key codes, culled from
gdk/gdkkeysyms.h
Gtk2::api(3pm) describes how to map the C API into perl, and some of the
important differences in the perl bindings.
Gtk2::Helper(3pm) contains stuff that makes writing Gtk2 programs
a little easier.
Gtk2::SimpleList(3pm) makes the GtkListStore and GtkTreeModel a lot
easier to use.
Gtk2::Pango(3pm) exports various little-used but important constants you
may need to work with pango directly.
Gtk2::index(3pm) lists the autogenerated api documentation pod files
for Gtk2.
Gtk2 also provides code to make it relatively painless to create perl
wrappers for other GLib/Gtk-based libraries. See Gtk2::CodeGen,
ExtUtils::PkgConfig, and ExtUtils::Depends. If you're writing bindings,
you'll probably also be interested in Gtk2::devel, which is a supplement
to Glib::devel and Glib::xsapi. The Binding Howto, at
http://gtk2-perl.sourceforge.net/doc/binding_howto.pod.html, ties it all
together.
AUTHORS
The gtk2-perl team:
muppet <scott at asofyet dot org>
Ross McFarland <rwmcfa1 at neces dot com>
Torsten Schoenfeld <kaffeetisch at web dot de>
Marc Lehmann <pcg at goof dot com>
G??ran Thyni <gthyni at kirra dot net>
J??rn Reder <joern at zyn dot de>
Chas Owens <alas at wilma dot widomaker dot com>
Guillaume Cottenceau <gc at mandrakesoft dot com>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright 2003 by the gtk2-perl team.
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
Library General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
License along with this library; if not, write to the
Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA.
