Re: The GIMP - CPP and G++

[Robert Heller]

At Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:20:22 -0700 (PDT) ArbolOne <arbolone@gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> Sorry folks, I know this is not the right place to ask this question,
> but I would like to rely on your experience and exposure to different
> programming techniques to resolve this issue.
> I was looking at The GIMP (http://www.gimp.org/screenshots/) specially
> the MS-Windows screen-shots, I like the way The GIMP uses a tall side-
> window (Pallet) to hold the different tools that might be used, tools
> like "Rectangle Select Tool" or "Scissors Select Tool". I would like
> to adopt this style for a program I am working on; which also requires
> a pallet to hold a number of button or clickable widgets. Does anyone
> know of a library that I could use to achieve this purpose? I would
> give preference to a GNU library or from the the Free Software
> Foundation.

I would guess it is part of the GTK+ (GIMP ToolKit):

sauron.deepsoft.com% rpm -qi gtk+
Name        : gtk+                         Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 1.2.10                            Vendor: CentOS
Release     : 36                            Build Date: Thu 03 May 2007 
06:33:48 AM EDT
Install Date: Wed 04 Jul 2007 08:19:04 PM EDT      Build Host: 
builder4.centos.org
Group       : System Environment/Libraries   Source RPM: gtk+-1.2.10-36.src.rpm
Size        : 2213301                          License: LGPL
Signature   : DSA/SHA1, Sat 05 May 2007 09:32:36 AM EDT, Key ID a53d0bab443e1821
URL         : http://www.gtk.org
Summary     : The GIMP ToolKit (GTK+), a library for creating GUIs for X.
Description :
The gtk+ package contains the GIMP ToolKit (GTK+), a library for
creating graphical user interfaces for the X Window System. GTK+ was
originally written for the GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) image
processing program, but is now used by several other programs as
well.

I believe there is a MS-Windows port of the GTK+ libraries.

> 
> Thanks in advance.
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>    

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