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Widget toolkit
In
computer programming
,
widget toolkits
(or
GUI toolkits
) are
sets
of basic building elements for
Graphical User Interfaces
.
Typical Widgets
Windows
Menus[?]
Buttons[?]
Combo boxes[?]
Radio boxes[?]
Icons[?]
Popular Widget Toolkits
High-level widget toolkits
The
Abstract Windowing Toolkit
is used in
Java
applications. It will typically use another toolkit on the selected platform in turn.
Cocoa
- used in
MacOS X
GNUstep
GTK
used in
GNOME
MetaCard[?]
The
Microsoft Foundation Classes[?]
(MFC) contain several useful widgets
Motif
used in the
Common Desktop Environment
The
Object Windows Library[?]
is sort of
Borland's
alternative to MFC
The
Visual Component Library[?]
(VCL) is
Borland's
toolkit used in its C++ Builder and Delphi products.
Qt
used in
KDE
Swing[?]
is Sun's replacement for
AWT
in newer Java versions
Tk
a widget set accessed from
Tcl
WINGs[?]
WINGs Is Not GNUstep
wxWindows[?]
abstracts toolkits across several platforms for C++ and
Python
Low-level widget toolkits
The
Windows API
used in
Microsoft Windows
The
X Window System
contains primitive building blocks, but they are almost always accessed using either Motif, GTK or Qt.
(
what does macintosh use?
)
External Links
A GUI Toolkit Framework Page
(
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Vista/7184/guitool
)
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