GDK (GIMP Drawing Kit) is a library that acts as a wrapper around the low-level functions provided by the underlying windowing and graphics systems. GDK lies between the display server and the GTK library, handling basic rendering such as drawing primitives, raster graphics (bitmaps), cursors, fonts, as well as window events and drag-and-drop functionality.
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- Instance of
- software library
- Subclass of
- software library
- Developer
- The GNOME Project
- Image
- GTK+ software architecture.svg
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- programmed in
- C
- Stack Exchange tag
- stackoverflow.com/tags/gdk
- source code repository URL
- gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/tree/master/gdk
- operating system
- Linux
- software version identifier
- 4.11.5
- user manual URL
- docs.gtk.org/gdk3
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- Software architecture
- GdkFrameClock
- GTK Scene Graph Kit
- Windowing systems
- {{Anchor|GDKPIXBUF}}gdk-pixbuf
- History
- See also
- References
- External links
GDK (GIMP Drawing Kit) is a library that acts as a wrapper around the low-level functions provided by the underlying windowing and graphics systems. GDK lies between the display server and the GTK library, handling basic rendering such as drawing primitives, raster graphics (bitmaps), cursors, fonts, as well as window events and drag-and-drop functionality.
Like GTK Scene Graph Kit (GSK), GDK is part of GTK and licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “GDK” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.