Chapter 2. GTK+ for VB Developers

This chapter introduces the GTK+ widget set, primarily for the Linux platform. The widgets have also been ported to the Microsoft Windows environment. However, before you go switching all your Windows development efforts, you need to know that cross-compiling the same code on both Linux and Windows is far from a painless process. This book focuses on Linux and considers Windows an option. At the time of this writing, the Windows port of the GTK+ widget set is considered alpha release, but continued improvement is expected in the immediate future. Although I have created and used applications for both Windows ...

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