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This document provides an overview of GUI programming with Perl and GTK. It introduces widgets, GUI toolkits including GTK, and demonstrates a simple "Hello World" GUI program. It also covers GUI programming concepts like layouts, translating C functions to Perl, and using GUI builders and the CPAN module to facilitate GUI development in Perl.

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Perl GTK

This document provides an overview of GUI programming with Perl and GTK. It introduces widgets, GUI toolkits including GTK, and demonstrates a simple "Hello World" GUI program. It also covers GUI programming concepts like layouts, translating C functions to Perl, and using GUI builders and the CPAN module to facilitate GUI development in Perl.

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GUI Programming 
with Perl / GTK

Anuradha Weeraman
[email protected]
http://www.linux.lk/~anu/
23 May 2006
Contents

●
 Overview 
●
 GUI Toolkits
●
 Hello World
●
 Layout
●
 C ­> Perl
●
 GUI Builders
●
 CPAN
Overview

●
 What's a widget?
●
 What's a GUI?
●
 What's a GUI toolkit?
●
 What's GTK?
●
 What's GTK­Perl?
●
 How is GUI programming different?
GUI Toolkits

●
 Athena Widget Library
●
 OSF Motif
●
 Xforms
●
 FLTK
●
 the GIMP Toolkit
●
 Qt Toolkit
●
 LessTif
Hello World

#!/usr/bin/perl

use Gtk2 '-init';

$window = Gtk2::Window->new;

$label = Gtk2::Label->new ("Hello World");

$window->add ($label);
$window->show_all;

Gtk2->main;
Hello World – Part 2
#!/usr/bin/perl

use Gtk2 '-init';

$window = Gtk2::Window->new;

$window->signal_connect(
destroy => sub { Gtk2->main_quit }
);

$label = Gtk2::Label->new ("Hello World");

$window->add ($label);
$window->show_all;

Gtk2->main;
Hello World – Part 3

#!/usr/bin/perl

use Gtk2 '-init';

$window = Gtk2::Window->new;
$window->set_title("Hello");
$window->signal_connect(destroy => sub { Gtk2->main_quit });

$button = Gtk2::Button->new ("Greetings Earthling");


$button->signal_connect(clicked => sub { Gtk2->main_quit });

$window->add ($button);
$window->show_all;

Gtk2->main;
Hello World – Part 4
#!/usr/bin/perl

use Gtk2 '-init';

sub quit_program {
Gtk2->main_quit;
print "Program has stopped.\n";
}

$window = Gtk2::Window->new;
$window->set_title("Hello");
$window->signal_connect(destroy => \&quit_program);

$button = Gtk2::Button->new ("Greetings Earthling");


$button->signal_connect(clicked => \&quit_program);

$window->add ($button);
$window->show_all;

Gtk2->main;
Layout ­ HBox

$window = Gtk2::Window->new;
$hbox = Gtk2::HBox->new;

$button_1 = Gtk2::Button->new ("Button 1");


$button_2 = Gtk2::Button->new ("Button 2");

$hbox->pack_start ($button_1, 0, 0, 0);


$hbox->pack_start ($button_2, 0, 0, 0);

$window->add ($hbox);
Layout ­ VBox

$window = Gtk2::Window->new;
$vbox = Gtk2::VBox->new;

$button_1 = Gtk2::Button->new ("Button 1");


$button_2 = Gtk2::Button->new ("Button 2");

$vbox->pack_start ($button_1, 0, 0, 0);


$vbox->pack_start ($button_2, 0, 0, 0);

$window->add ($vbox);
C ­> Perl

●
 Consistent naming
●
 One­to­one mapping
●
 Object­oriented
●
 Transparently handles type­casting, reference 
counting etc.
●
 Exceptions allowed where Perl capabilities 
afford a cleaner API – multiple return values, 
string / array function parameters
Function Name Translation

g_ -> Glib

gtk_ -> Gtk2

gdk_ -> Gtk2::Gdk

gdk_pixbuf_ -> Gtk2::Gdk::Pixbuf

pango_ -> Gtk2::Pango


Function Name Translation

gtk_window_ -> Gtk2::Window

gtk_button_ -> Gtk2::Button

gtk_window_new -> Gtk2::Window->new

gtk_button_new -> Gtk2::Button->new


Function Parameters

gtk_window_set_title
(GtkWindow *window, gchar string)

becomes

$window->set_title ($string)
Function Parameters
GList replaced by variable number of arguments:
gtk_window_set_icon_list (GtkWindow * window, GList * list)
$window->set_icon_list (@icons)

Same with the array moved to the end of the parameter list:
gtk_list_insert_items (GtkList *list, GList *items, gint position)
$list->insert_items ($position, @items)
  
Array parameter and integer with the size of that array, replaced by variable number 
of arguments:
gtk_curve_set_vector (GtkCurve *curve, int veclen, gfloat vector[])
$curve->set_vector (@vector)

Same with the array moved to the end of parameter list:
gtk_item_factory_create_items (GtkItemFactory * ifactory,
guint n_entries, GtkItemFactoryEntry * entries,
gpointer callback_data)
$itemfactory->create_items ($callback_data, @entries)
Return Values

gtk_window_get_size (GtkWindow *window, gint *width,


gint *height)

($width, $height) = $window->get_size

gtk_calendar_get_date (GtkCalendar * calendar,


guint year, guint month, guint day)

($year, $month, $day) = $calendar->get_date


GUI Builders ­ Glade
Installing Modules

Download foo­module.tar.gz
$ tar zxvf foo­module.tar.gz
$ cd foo­module
$ perl Configure.PL
$ make
$ make test
# make install
           OR
use CPAN.
CPAN

●
 CPAN.org
●
 Comprehensive Perl Archive Network
●
 Mirrors all over the world
●
 Command line shell
●
 Bundled with standard Perl distribution
●
 Intuitive module management
CPAN

perl ­MCPAN ­e shell

cpan> install Term::ReadKey
cpan> install Term::ReadLine
cpan> install Bundle::CPAN
cpan> h or ?
Thank You!  

For more information, visit:
http://www.gtk.org
http://www.gtk2­perl.sourceforge.net

You can download this presentation 
from http://www.linux.lk/~anu

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