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by **Pauld** » Sun, 02 Apr 2000 04:00:00

Hi,
I've been trying to decide which X API to program in and I've settled
for GTK since it looks nicer IMO. What's the difference between GTK and
GTK+? I'm guessing that GTK+ is a C++ wrapper class thing around GTK?
If this assumption is correct then where do I get it and where do I get
the docs on it?
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by **Marijn Vrie** » Sun, 02 Apr 2000 04:00:00

On Sat, 01 Apr 2000 11:57:00 +0000, Paul Richards (Pauldoo)

>Hi,
>I've been trying to decide which X API to program in and I've settled
>for GTK since it looks nicer IMO. What's the difference between GTK and
>GTK+? I'm guessing that GTK+ is a C++ wrapper class thing around GTK?
>If this assumption is correct then where do I get it and where do I get
>the docs on it?

GTK+ is a C API. There's a C++ Wrapper for GTK+ called GTK-- (ya, they
have humor).

All the information on GTK+ can be found on www.gtk.org. info on GTK--
can be found on gtkmm.sourceforge.net if im not mistaken.

Hope this helps..

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by **spi..** » Sun, 02 Apr 2000 04:00:00

And verily, didst "Paul Richards (Pauldoo)" hastily scribble thusly:

Quote:> Hi,
> I've been trying to decide which X API to program in and I've settled
> for GTK since it looks nicer IMO. What's the difference between GTK and
> GTK+? I'm guessing that GTK+ is a C++ wrapper class thing around GTK?

Nope. That's GTK--.
GTK is the GIMP toolkit. I think GTK+ is just the proper name for it, or
just has a few more widgets, but either way, it's a C library.

Quote:> If this assumption is correct then where do I get it and where do I get
> the docs on it?

www.gtk.org has all the docs (including a rather good, but incomplete
tutorial).

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by **David Alle** » Sun, 02 Apr 2000 04:00:00

> Hi, I've been trying to decide which X API to program in and I've
> settled for GTK since it looks nicer IMO. What's the difference between
> GTK and GTK+? I'm guessing that GTK+ is a C++ wrapper class thing
> around GTK? If this assumption is correct then where do I get it and
> where do I get the docs on it?

GTK+ is the same thing as GTK, it's just that people write GTK when
they're too lazy to type GTK+. Technically, I believe anything after
a certain version is called GTK+, whereas the really early stuff is
called GTK, but most likely for your purposes, there isn't a difference.

The C++ wrappers are called GTK--.
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by **Marijn Vrie** » Mon, 03 Apr 2000 05:00:00

On Sat, 01 Apr 2000 22:33:46 -0500, David Allen

>> Hi, I've been trying to decide which X API to program in and I've
>> settled for GTK since it looks nicer IMO. What's the difference between
>> GTK and GTK+? I'm guessing that GTK+ is a C++ wrapper class thing
>> around GTK? If this assumption is correct then where do I get it and
>> where do I get the docs on it?

>GTK+ is the same thing as GTK, it's just that people write GTK when
>they're too lazy to type GTK+. Technically, I believe anything after
>a certain version is called GTK+, whereas the really early stuff is
>called GTK, but most likely for your purposes, there isn't a difference.

GTK turned into GTK+ when it was split of from "the Gimp" as a widget
set of it's own.

Quote:
>The C++ wrappers are called GTK--.
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