“GUI toolkits have existed for many years. From Xlib, to XT,
Motif, and now GTK, they were all used by programmers to create all
kinds of programs. Some were nice looking, some were ugly, some
were commercial and others were open source, but they all had a
similar problem: they were too complex, requiring too many lines of
code to make simple graphical forms. Times have changed now. In
this short article I’ll introduce you to what I did to change the
way some of us write GUI programs.”
“EasyGTK is a library that provides wrapper functions to the
popular GTK library. I created EasyGTK with two main goals: make
initial learning for others easier, and make the process of
creating widgets simpler. What the wrapper functions do is take
various GTK functions, combine them, and provide an API that’s more
consistant, and takes less lines to do the same work. For example,
a typical 30 line GTK function could take 5 lines with
EasyGTK.”