Usefull Links

GTK Site

GTK4 API

ADW API

GNOME HIG

Workbench more than 100 code examples that you can run live

Some Lua\Vala\C code examples

Gtk4 Tutorial for beginners (for C but its so good that it doesnt matter what language you will use) https://github.com/ToshioCP/Gtk4-tutorial
Another C tutorial from GTK 4 devs https://docs.gtk.org/gtk4/getting_started.html

Also see SHOWCASE.MD for examples of GTK apps sorted by languages.

GTK for Languages

• Vala language was created by GNOME for GTK development(kinda like Swift from Apple)
  • https://vala.dev/
  • Lib docs
  • Tutorial
• Blueprint declarative DSL for GTK GUI, alla JSX but not XML(GTK has XML by default)
  • Site
  • VSCode plugin
  • Live preview tool

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GIR - Gobject Introspection - means lang can call any GObject lib GTK3\4 - means its probably manual written bindings for GTK(or a link to a pkg with GIR-generated bindings)

• Kotlin JVM

  • GIR via Java API https://github.com/jwharm/java-gi
  • Dead GTK 4 with DSL 96% https://gitlab.com/gtk-kt/gtk-kt

• Kotlin Native

  • GIR https://gitlab.com/gtk-kn/gtk-kn

• C# GIR https://github.com/gircore/gir.core

• Nim GIR https://github.com/StefanSalewski/gintro

• Swift

  • Swift UI https://github.com/AparokshaUI/adwaita-swift blog post
  • GIR https://github.com/rhx/gir2swift
  • GTK 3 https://github.com/rhx/SwiftGtk
  • GTK 4 https://github.com/rhx/SwiftGtk/tree/gtk4

• Zig

  • Native C interop https://github.com/Sobeston/gtk4-zig-example
  • GIR https://github.com/Diegovsky/gintro

• Golang

  • GTK 3 https://github.com/gotk3/gotk3
  • GTK 4 Not ready https://github.com/diamondburned/gotk4

• Scheme

  • Guile GIR g-golf Guile Object Library for (GNOME)

• Rust

  • gtk-rs GTK 3 4 New site
  • relm - GTK 3 gui basic lib inspired by elm https://github.com/antoyo/relm

• JS/TS

  • Node https://github.com/romgrk/node-gtk
  • TypeScript GIR bingings https://github.com/sammydre/ts-for-gjs
  • GJS(Official GTK lang) https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gjs/ Official GNOME js
  • Seed GObject JavaScriptCore bridge https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Seed

• Python(Official GTK lang) - https://pygobject.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

• Haskell

  • GIR with GTK 3 and 4 support https://github.com/haskell-gi/haskell-gi
  • gi-gtk-declarative https://github.com/owickstrom/gi-gtk-declarative
  • Reactive Banana GI GTK https://github.com/mr/reactive-banana-gi-gtk

• Dlang

  • GIR https://github.com/gtkd-developers/gir-to-d
  • GTK 3 https://github.com/gtkd-developers/GtkD

• Crystal

  • GIR https://github.com/jhass/crystal-gobject
  • GTK 4 https://github.com/hugopl/gtk4.cr

• Standard ML Family http://giraffelibrary.org/

• Ruby https://github.com/ruby-gnome/ruby-gnome

• C++

  • GTKMM https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtkmm
  • GIR https://gitlab.com/mnauw/cppgir

• Guile

  • GNU G-Golf GIR https://www.gnu.org/software/g-golf/
  • Guile-GI https://github.com/spk121/guile-gi

• Scala-native

  • GTK 3 https://github.com/jokade/scalanative-gtk

• Smalltalk

  • GNU Smalltalk comes with GTK bindings and with a browser based on it
  • Pharo GTK 3 backend built in since version 9 https://vimeo.com/554479973

• Ada

  • GTK 3 https://github.com/AdaCore/gtkada

Tutorials

• Nim
  • GTK4 for Graphical User Interfaces 2021
• D
  • Начинаем использовать GTKD 2015
  • More than 100 nice lessons for GTK 3 Last 2020
  • GTK 3 tutorial 2013
• Rust
  • GTK 4
• Haskell
  • Создаём GTK-видеоплеер с использованием Haskell 2017
  • GTK programming with haskell 2018 with video
  • How do I set up Gtk on Windows for Haskell development
  • GUI Programming with gtk2hs 2008 GTK 2
• C
  • Gtk4 Tutorial for beginners
  • GTK Glade C Programming Tutorial
  • GTK 3 ZetCode tutorial
• Crystal
  • Creating fast GUIs with Crystal, GTK and Glade GTK 3 2020
• Python
  • The Python GTK+ 3 Tutorial 2021
  • GSETTINGS – FLEXIBLE CONFIGURATION SYSTEM 2012
  • How to create a GTK application using Python 2019
  • GTK 3 ZetCode 2020
• Vala
  • Creating full app GTK 3 for EOS
  • Video tutorials for GTK 3 2021
  • Vala GTK+ Examples 2016
  • Creating Custom GTK+ Widgets
• GJS
  • https://gjs.guide/
• C#
  • GTK 2 ZetCode 2020

Examples

• Python
  • GTK 3 samples
  • custom Gtk.TreeModel for Gtk 3
• Vala
  • GTK 3 Widgets examples from ValaDoc
  • This repo contains many other repos with all widget examples for GTK 3 and 4
• D
  • More than 100 nice lessons for GTK 3
• Nim
  • This repo
• GJS
  • https://gjs.guide/showcase/
• Haskell
  • https://github.com/haskell-gi/haskell-gi/tree/master/examples

Docs

• Vala
  • GTK 3
  • GTK 4
  • General G* Docs
• C++
  • GTKMM
  • GTKMM 4
• Swift
  • GTK 3
  • GTK 4
  • General G* Docs
• D
  • General G* Docs (No GTK 4)
• Guile
  • GTK 3
• GJS
  • General G* Docs
• Haskell
  • Project Wiki

Books

• C
  • Foundations of GTK+ Development (Expert's Voice in Open Source)
  • Gtk+ /Gnome Application Development
• Vala + JS
  • GNOME 3 Application Development Beginner’s Guide
• Vala
  • Introducing Vala Programming: A Language and Techniques to Boost Productivity Contains GTK 3 section.