Gtk Sharp

The correct title of this article is Gtk#. The substitution or omission of the # sign is because of technical restrictions.

Gtk#

Developer(s)	Xamarin
Stable release	2.12.10 / March 16, 2010 (2010-03-16)
Operating system	Cross-platform
Type	Widget toolkit
License	GNU Lesser General Public License
Website	www.mono-project.com/GtkSharp

Gtk# is a set of .NET bindings for the GTK+ GUI toolkit and assorted GNOME libraries. The library facilitates building graphical GNOME applications using Mono or any other compliant CLR. Gtk# is an event-driven system like any other modern windowing library where every widget allows you to associate handler methods, which get called when particular events happen.

Applications built using Gtk# will run on many platforms including GNU/Linux, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. The Mono packages for Windows include GTK+, Gtk# and a native theme to make applications look like native Windows applications. Starting with Mono 1.9, running Gtk# applications on Mac OS X no longer requires the user to run the X11 server.

Glade can be used with the Glade# bindings to easily design GUI applications. A GUI designer called Stetic is integrated with the MonoDevelop IDE.

In addition to support the standard GTK/GNOME stack of development tools, the gtk-dotnet.dll assembly provides a bridge to consume functionality available on the .NET stack. At this point this includes the functionality to use System.Drawing to draw on a widget.

Source

This article incorporates text from Mono's homepage, which is under the GNU Free Documentation License.

External links

• Gtk# official homepage