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gtk-fortran -- High level interfaces

The high level interface for gtk-fortran is in the source file gtk-hl.f90. This provides a number of higher level interfaces to the GTK widget system, with the intent of making GUI construction more accessible to scientific programmers (the feel should not be too alien to anyone who has developed GUIs in IDL). The routines make use of the optional arguments in Fortran>=90 to simplify creating and initializing widgets.

Modules list:

  • gtk_hl: A wrapper that includes all of the other modules.

  • gtk_hl_assistant: A bundled interface for the assistant widget.

  • gtk_hl_button: Implements interfaces to various kinds of button.

  • gtk_hl_chooser: Implements file choosers that do not need variadic arguments.

  • gtk_hl_combobox: Implements interfaces to text comboboxes.

  • gtk_hl_container: Implements interfaces to: Window, box, table (implemented as grid in GTK 3.x), notebook and scrolled window.

  • gtk_hl_dialog: Implements a message dialog widget that does not require variadic calls.

  • gtk_hl_entry: Implements interfaces to entry and textview widgets.

  • gtk_hl_infobar: An interface to the infobar widget. Removes much of the complexity of putting a message into the widget.

  • gtk_hl_misc: Miscellaneous interfaces, mostly used by other modules.

  • gtk_hl_progress: Implements progress bars, including "m of n" settings and automated text addition.

  • gtk_hl_spin_slider: Implements spin boxes and sliders (including convenient integer interfaces).

  • gtk_hl_tree: Implements interfaces to the list & tree widgets.

In addition two graphics modules are available, but are not automatically included with the gtk_hl module:

  • gtk_draw_hl: Implements interfaces to drawing areas and their relationship to Cairo. (N.B. The reversed naming convention is a historical accident). Drawing areas created with this module have the necessary features to be used as drawing surfaces by plplot.

  • gdk_pixbuf_hl: Implements convenient interfaces to GDK pixbufs and formats.

Several demos are provided in the examples/ directory: they have the prefix hl_.