API Reference

Table of Contents

General — Library initialization and miscellaneous functions

Multi-head Support Overview — Overview of GdkDisplay and GdkScreen

GdkDisplay — Controls the keyboard/mouse pointer grabs and a set of GdkScreens

GdkDisplayManager — Maintains a list of all open GdkDisplays

GdkScreen — Object representing a physical screen

Points, Rectangles and Regions — Simple graphical data types

Graphics Contexts — Objects to encapsulate drawing properties

Drawing Primitives — Functions for drawing points, lines, arcs, and text

Bitmaps and Pixmaps — Offscreen drawables

GdkRGB — Renders RGB, grayscale, or indexed image data to a GdkDrawable

Images — A client-side area for bit-mapped graphics

Pixbufs — Functions for rendering pixbufs on drawables

Colormaps and Colors — Manipulation of colors and colormaps

Visuals — Low-level display hardware information

Fonts — Loading and manipulating fonts

Cursors — Standard and pixmap cursors

Windows — Onscreen display areas in the target window system

Events — Functions for handling events from the window system

Event Structures — Data structures specific to each type of event

Key Values — Functions for manipulating keyboard codes

Selections — Functions for transfering data via the X selection mechanism

Drag and Drop — Functions for controlling drag and drop handling

Properties and Atoms — Functions to manipulate properties on windows

Threads — Functions for using GDK in multi-threaded programs

Input — Callbacks on file descriptors

Input Devices — Functions for handling extended input devices

Pango Interaction — Using Pango in GDK

Cairo Interaction — Functions to support using Cairo

X Window System Interaction — X backend-specific functions

Application launching — Startup notification for applications

Testing — Test utilities