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GTK+ is a multi-platform toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces. Offering a complete set of widgets, GTK+ is suitable for projects ranging from small one-off tools to complete application suites. GTK+ has been designed from the ground up to support a range of languages, not only C/C++. Using GTK+ from languages such as Perl and Python (especially in combination with the Glade GUI builder) provides an effective method of rapid application development. GTK+ is free software and part of the GNU Project. However, the licensing terms for GTK+, the GNU LGPL, allow it to be used by all developers, including those developing proprietary software, without any license fees or royalties. GTK+ has been developed for over a decade to be able to deliver the enticing features and superb performance that it brings to your application development. GTK+ is supported by a large community of developers and has core maintainers from companies such as Red Hat, Novell, Lanedo and Opened Hand. GTK+ caters for a number features that today's developers are looking for in a toolkit, they include: * Native look and feel * Theme support * Thread safe * Object orientated approach * Internationalization * Localization * Accessibility * Bidirectional text support (LTR/RTL, Left To Right/Right To Left) * UTF8 support * Documentation GTK+ has a comprehensive collection of core widgets which include: * Windows (normal window or dialog, about and assistant dialogs) * Displays (label, image, progress bar, status bar) * Buttons and toggles (check buttons, radio buttons, toggle buttons and link buttons) * Numerical (horizontal or vertical scales and spin buttons) and text data entry (with or without completion) * Multi-line text editor * Tree, list and icon grid viewer (with customizable renderers and model/view separation) * Combo box (with or without an entry) * Menus (with images, radio buttons and check items) * Toolbars (with radio buttons, toggle buttons and menu buttons) * UI Manager (creating menus and toolbars from XML) * Selectors (color selection, file chooser, font selection) * Layouts (tabulated widget, table widget, expander widget, frames, separators and more) * Status icon (notification area on Linux, tray icon on Windows) * Printing widgets * Recently used documents (menu, dialog and manager) GTK+ is built on top of GLib. GLib provides the fundamental algorithmic language constructs commonly duplicated in applications. This library has features such as (this list is not a comprehensive list): * Object and type system * Main loop * Dynamic loading of modules (i.e. plug-ins) * Thread support * Timer support * Memory allocator * Threaded Queues (synchronous and asynchronous) * Lists (singly linked, doubly linked, double ended) * Hash tables * Arrays * Trees (N-ary and binary balanced) * String utilities and charset handling * Lexical scanner and XML parser * Base64 (encoding & decoding)