GDK: GDK

Description

GDK is the abstraction layer that allows GTK+ to support multiple windowing systems. GDK provides drawing and window system facilities on X11, Windows, and the Linux framebuffer device.

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Details

The RGtk binding to the GDK library consists of the following components:

gdk-Cairo-Interaction: Functions to support using Cairo
gdk-Colormaps-and-Colors: Manipulation of colors and colormaps
gdk-Cursors: Standard and pixmap cursors
gdk-Drag-and-Drop: Functions for controlling drag and drop handling
gdk-Drawing-Primitives: Functions for drawing points, lines, arcs, and text
gdk-Event-Structures: Data structures specific to each type of event
gdk-Events: Functions for handling events from the window system
gdk-Fonts: Loading and manipulating fonts
gdk-Graphics-Contexts: Objects to encapsulate drawing properties
gdk-Application-launching: Startup notification for applications
GdkDisplay: Controls the keyboard/mouse pointer grabs and a set of s
GdkDisplayManager: Maintains a list of all open s
GdkScreen: Object representing a physical screen
gdk-Testing: Test utilities
gdk-General: Library initialization and miscellaneous functions
gdk-Images: A client-side area for bit-mapped graphics
gdk-Input-Devices: Functions for handling extended input devices
gdk-Keyboard-Handling: Functions for manipulating keyboard codes
gdk-Pango-Interaction: Using Pango in GDK
gdk-Pixbufs: Functions for rendering pixbufs on drawables
gdk-Bitmaps-and-Pixmaps: Offscreen drawables
gdk-Properties-and-Atoms: Functions to manipulate properties on windows
gdk-Points-Rectangles-and-Regions: Simple graphical data types
gdk-GdkRGB: Renders RGB, grayscale, or indexed image data to a GdkDrawable
gdk-Visuals: Low-level display hardware information
gdk-Windows: Onscreen display areas in the target window system

References

http://library.gnome.org/devel//gdk