Gtk Sharp
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| Developer(s) | Novell |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 2.4.0
/ November 15 2005 |
| Repository | |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Type | GUI Toolkit |
| License | LGPL |
| Website | http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net/ |
# Gtk# is a set of .NET bindings for the GTK+ GUI toolkit and assorted GNOME libraries. The library allows you to build fully native graphical GNOME application using Mono. Gtk# is an event-driven system like any other modern windowing library where every widget in an application has handler methods that get called when particular events happen.
Applications built using Gtk# will run on many platforms including Linux, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. GTK+ is the native toolkit for Linux desktop environment GNOME, so applications will look and function best there. The Mono packages for Windows include GTK+, Gtk# and a native theme to make your applications look like native Windows applications. At this point, running Gtk# applications on Mac OS X requires the user to run the X11 server.
You can use Glade along with the Glade# bindings to easily design GUI applications. A new GUI designer called Stetic is being built which will be integrated with the MonoDevelop 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.
Reference
This article incorporates text from Mono's homepage, which is in the GNU Free Documentation License.