Gtk2(3) 						User Contributed Perl Documentation						   Gtk2(3)

NAME

       Gtk2 - Perl interface to the 2.x series of the Gimp Toolkit library

SYNOPSIS

	 use Gtk2 -init;
	 # Gtk2->init; works if you didn't use -init on use
	 my $window = Gtk2::Window->new ('toplevel');
	 my $button = Gtk2::Button->new ('Quit');
	 $button->signal_connect (clicked => sub { Gtk2->main_quit });
	 $window->add ($button);
	 $window->show_all;
	 Gtk2->main;

ABSTRACT

       Perl bindings to the 2.x series of the Gtk+ widget set.	This module allows you to write graphical user interfaces in a Perlish and object-
       oriented way, freeing you from the casting and memory management in C, yet remaining very close in spirit to original API.

DESCRIPTION

       The Gtk2 module allows a Perl developer to use the Gtk+ graphical user interface library.  Find out more about Gtk+ at http://www.gtk.org.

       The GTK+ Reference Manual is also a handy companion when writing Gtk programs in any language.  http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/
       The Perl bindings follow the C API very closely, and the C reference documentation should be considered the canonical source.

       To discuss gtk2-perl, ask questions and flame/praise the authors, join gtk-perl-list@gnome.org at lists.gnome.org.

       Also have a look at the gtk2-perl website and sourceforge project page, http://gtk2-perl.sourceforge.net

INITIALIZATION

	 use Gtk2 qw/-init/;
	 use Gtk2 qw/-init -threads-init/;

       -init
	   Equivalent to Gtk2->init, called to initialize GLIB and GTK+. Just about every Gtk2-Perl script should do "use Gtk2 -init"; This
	   initialization should take place before using any other Gtk2 functions in your GUI applications. It will initialize everything needed
	   to operate the toolkit and parses some standard command line options. @ARGV is adjusted accordingly so your own code will never see
	   those standard arguments.

       -threads-init
	   Equivalent to Gtk2::Gdk::Threads->init, called to initialze/enable gdk's thread safety mechanisms so that gdk can be accessed from
	   multiple threads when used in conjunction with Gtk2::Gdk::Threads->enter and Gtk2::Gdk::Threads->leave. If invoked as
	   Gtk2::Gdk::Threads->init it should be done before Gtk2->init is called, if done by "use Gtk2 -init -threads-init" order does not
	   matter.

EXPORTS

       Gtk2 exports nothing by default, but some constants are available upon request.

       Tag: constants
	     GTK_PRIORITY_RESIZE

	     GTK_PATH_PRIO_LOWEST
	     GTK_PATH_PRIO_GTK
	     GTK_PATH_PRIO_APPLICATION
	     GTK_PATH_PRIO_THEME
	     GTK_PATH_PRIO_RC
	     GTK_PATH_PRIO_HIGHEST

	     GDK_PRIORITY_EVENTS
	     GDK_PRIORITY_REDRAW
	     GDK_CURRENT_TIME

       See Glib for other standard priority levels.

SEE ALSO

       perl(1), Glib(3pm), Pango(3pm).

       Gtk2::Gdk::Keysyms(3pm) contains a hash of key codes, culled from gdk/gdkkeysyms.h

       Gtk2::api(3pm) describes how to map the C API into Perl, and some of the important differences in the Perl bindings.

       Gtk2::Helper(3pm) contains stuff that makes writing Gtk2 programs a little easier.

       Gtk2::SimpleList(3pm) makes the GtkListStore and GtkTreeModel a lot easier to use.

       Gtk2::Pango(3pm) exports various little-used but important constants you may need to work with pango directly.

       Gtk2::index(3pm) lists the autogenerated api documentation pod files for Gtk2.

       Gtk2 also provides code to make it relatively painless to create Perl wrappers for other GLib/Gtk-based libraries.  See Gtk2::CodeGen,
       ExtUtils::PkgConfig, and ExtUtils::Depends.  If you're writing bindings, you'll probably also be interested in Gtk2::devel, which is a
       supplement to Glib::devel and Glib::xsapi.  The Binding Howto, at http://gtk2-perl.sourceforge.net/doc/binding_howto.pod.html, ties it all
       together.

AUTHORS

       The gtk2-perl team:

	muppet <scott at asofyet dot org>
	Ross McFarland <rwmcfa1 at neces dot com>
	Torsten Schoenfeld <kaffeetisch at web dot de>
	Marc Lehmann <pcg at goof dot com>
	Goeran Thyni <gthyni at kirra dot net>
	Joern Reder <joern at zyn dot de>
	Chas Owens <alas at wilma dot widomaker dot com>
	Guillaume Cottenceau <gc at mandrakesoft dot com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       Copyright 2003-2008 by the gtk2-perl team.

       This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as
       published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

       This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
       MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU Library General Public License for more details.

       You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
       Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA.

perl v5.12.1							    2009-07-04								   Gtk2(3)