What is GTK?

Anon

Can someone tell me what is GTK?

I know scripting well in php for web pages?

Is it possible to make windows applications with php and GTK?

If it's true i am going to get crazy!!!!

Anon

GTK is a toolkit for building graphical desktop applications. It was developed to enable the creation of the GIMP, which is a Photoshop-like image editing tool, originally under Linux and Unix.

It has been ported to Windows to enable development of a Windows version of the GIMP. But I don't think the PHP interface to GTK has been ported.

GTK is at the heart of GNOME, one of the graphical object systems for Linux and Unix.

The PHP interface to GTK lets you build desktop applications using PHP scripting rather than C, C++, TCL, et cetera.

It's not intended for Web applications.

Anon

where can i found more for gtk?

Anon

i want to make a windows aplication interacting with mysql.
which is better?
php with gtk or Visual Basic?

Anon

www.gtk.org
gtk.php.net

Anon

What works better with mysql?

PHP has better support but if you can use mysql with odbc VB will be fine.

If this is a production quality app stick with VB as PHP-GTK is not yet fully operatoinal.

mithril

The PHP-GTK is ported for Win32 (and has been since release 0.0.1 back in April). The Win32 port does tend to lag behind *Nix on the official releases, but that's only by a couple days. Of course, the real fun is in the CVS tree, but that's another story🙂 Getting a CVS copy of PHP-GTK to work on Win32 is just as tricky, if not more so, than getting a functional CVS version of PHP itself.

The majority of the GTK core widget set has been implemented in the bind and is available on both *Nix and Win32. There are some 3rd party widgets, Scintilla and GtkHTML for example, which aren't currently supported on Win32... but libGlade is now supported in the most recent release. So you can now design all your interface layouts using XML stylesheets if you choose.

Some of the current limitations of the Win32 port are actaully related to issues in the port of GTK itself to Win32. Needless to say, Andrei et. al. are going to leave that mess to the folks over at GTK🙂 However, there are some plans to move to GTK 2.0 as soon as it's stable (PHP-GTK currently uses GTK 1.2.6).

-geff