Note
"It's been X days/weeks/months since last commit, is this project still maintained?" Yes. I'm just busy working :)
A set of various GTK code examples in different programming languages.
The main requirement to build and run the (C and Vala) examples is to have:
- Development files for GTK (3 and 4)
- Meson
- C and Vala compilers
Note
You might also need the GLEW development files (needed by the glarea example), try building and running first to see if everything it's ok
Then just run:
meson setup _BUILD .
ninja -C _BUILD
And that's it! You'll found compiled binaries under the following folders:
- _BUILD/c/ for the C examples
- _BUILD/vala/ for the Vala examples
In the case of the Lua examples, they're supposed to run on any version of Lua, and the only requirement is to have LGI installed, BUT: I highly recommend you to have the Git version. That's because the Git version supports GTK 4 and libadwaita, so you'll be sure every example will work.
Warning
To build LGI you'll need gobject-introspection, check out the LGI repo for more details if you're having trouble.
I decided to merge all my repos with GTK examples here because I feel that having different repos for the same purpose and with (basically) the same code is a mess, so I prefer to have all these examples in one place.
Note that GTK 3 and 4 are considerably different, which means that I'll try to have the same examples for both versions, but not all of them will be present in both versions. That said, here's a list of notes about some of the examples:
- GtkDialog: GTK 3 only, this class was deprecated in GTK 4.10
- GtkAssistant: in GTK 3 you can set a subtitle in the header bar, but not in GTK 4 because there's no subtitle property in GtkHeaderBar.
- GtkCssProvider: in GTK 4 this class was deprecated in GTK 4.10, the example is still present, but it's slightly different