Create a minimally useful GTK3 application in C

[@magnusanderson6681]

Thank you so much! As silly as it sounds, all the github repos I was looking at examples for had terrible build instructions that relied on complex tooling which meant I had no idea how to actually build anything. You showed the simple command and didn't waste any time getting into the rest of this, just overall amazing video

[@tylerlwsmith]

That was the best intro ever. Every second of this video was direct and valuable.

[@gujjardachhora9862]

I expected an Indian man judging by your channel name

[@EngineerMan]

Ha, sorry to disappoint.

[@gujjardachhora9862]

Not at all man, amazing video, it is hard to find GUI tutorials for C

[@EngineerMan]

Just wanted something small that I could do and explain in under 5 minutes.

[@ShivamJha00]

@@gujjardachhora9862 provided that why would anyone wanna use C for GUIs

[@gujjardachhora9862]

@@ShivamJha00 just for the heck of it

[@ramankr0022]

thank u very much, i was creating a matrix calculator and was troubled how to take inputs and adjust buttons, the code given in the description is proving to be very helpful for me.

[@llothar68]

My question about GTK is very shakespearean: To glade or not to glade ?

[@veg7nlif376]

Yes

[@LogicEu]

So useful, short and precise. Great work and thank you!

[@Ricko65]

Thank you very much - Thanks to your video I was able to do my first GTK application! Looking forward to expanding with the GREAT start!!!! A++++++++

[@AGUNGKAYA]

Wow cool! GUI in C !! What a great man!

[@justafreak15able]

How much C do you need to know to start working with GTk? I am learning C and I want to make a GTK app.

[@Nunya58294]

GTK3 if you're really new to C is quite involved. I won't stop you from learning how to make an app though. Happy coding!

[@bennguyen1313]

I built a simple wxWidget application but want to use GTK and its editor for the Gui deign (Glade/Cambalache). However, not sure what I need to install.. Meson, MSYS2, GTKMM vs GTK4 vs GTK3 etc. For example, I have Visual Studio Community do I still need MSYS2 (pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain base-devel etc) ? or can I just unzip the GTK source and build using VS? Do I need gvsbuild (Visual Studio Project or Meson Project) ? Also for testing , do you recommend CppUTest, google test , catch2, doctest, ??

[@ucr2256]

Hello! Nice to meet you,i would like to know where can I find more documentation of GTK,i need it because I have to create a text editor in C with GUI and include some functions with the mouse cursor,i would like to know something else

[@higiniofuentes2551]

In the case of using Glade for the design, do you have a video on it? Thank you!

[@higiniofuentes2551]

Thank you for this very useful video!

[@aaronrennyvargheseOriginal]

Thank you so much! Greetings from India.

[@blasttrash]

I thought Java Swing and JavaFX had a lot of boilerplate, but this gtk thing also has a lot of boilerplate.

[@gest07]

GREAT VIDEO! Straight to the point. Thanks!!

[@MmmBopsPops]

What do you prefer: GTK, Qt, or depends?

[@veg7nlif376]

Yes

[@jayzeejm]

Yes

[@AGUNGKAYA]

Expert would always say depend....

[@FeelingShred]

fuck C++ and fuck OOP xDDDDD I just had to get that out of my chest today, feels good

[@pixelPlex]

A tutorial video on concurrency with Gtk 3 would be very useful.

[@gandsnut]

Lessee... The command line invocation first sets an ENV variable GDK_SCALE=3 and - even though you have main() args - none are used here. So something in the library checks ENV at program startup, but in this example, nothing in the code needs to know about the application window size? Am I barking up the right tree? Thx.

[@ThePandaProcrastinates]

Are Jayem the gtk_init takes in &argc, &argv developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/gtk3-General.html#gtk-init

[@Ryan-xq3kl]

For whatever reason the compiling code for gcc in the github gives me a weird error which puts me in some loop in the terminal I have to kill manually. I have to compile it more like this to get it to work gcc `pkg-config --cflags gtk+-3.0` -o engCode engCode.c `pkg-config --libs gtk+-3.0`

[@TEXASF1ERCE]

Thank you so much for the videos you make Mr Engineer Man :)

[@ahmadawalluddin8711]

Hi i know this video been 3 year and i am totally begineer can you give me the link where did you downloaded the library. Thank you very much in advance. Btw i love that you make think so simple and fast.I am on widow machine

[@aaronrennyvargheseOriginal]

But this is for Linux......

[@ahmadawalluddin8711]

@@aaronrennyvargheseOriginal yeah i know i figured it out using msys2 to set up the library

[@aaronrennyvargheseOriginal]

@@ahmadawalluddin8711 oh good!

[@pixelPlex]

Why is the application being developed the GTK 2 way instead of using the GTK 3 way?

[@nathantoulbert4406]

what editor are you using? From the window (heh. gtk) Im guessing youre on linux, but I don't recognise the editor. Is it gedit?

[@svgaming234]

He uses Atom. You can see it on the top title bar of the app.

[@yarolmj]

excelent tutorial!

[@HenrySGoldIX]

Hi can you help me Engineer Man. How do you install this gtk/gtk.h?

[@jaymesc4436]

ever find out?

[@HenrySGoldIX]

@@jaymesc4436 Not yet. I don't know what to do

[@HenrySGoldIX]

@@jaymesc4436 I use windows and I'm trying to integrate GTK with Atom. Do you know how to do that

[@s.v.dedicated9621]

Are you guys serious? Literally all you have to do is google "How to install gtk3 on Win/Linux/Mac"

[@Nunya58294]

Oh God just don't bother if you have no idea what you're doing......

[@christ-marieanzianbrou7564]

salut Mr. EngineerMan je peux avoir une vidéo qui explique comment faire une interface graphique qui est liée avec une base de donnée. je suis sur Ubuntu. je ne trouve pas de vidéo sur KZbin. Merci d'avance

[@BladeAurora]

hey how do you install gtk on linux? Can you make a video on installing C libraries and linking them statically and dynamically?

[@EngineerMan]

You likely already have it installed. Click on the link to GitHub in the description and see if you can compile and run the file I made.

[@BladeAurora]

Package gtk+-3.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path. No package 'gtk+-3.0' found

[@EngineerMan]

If you're on ubuntu, apt-get install libgtk-3-dev should do it.

[@imeza4988]

@@EngineerMan Thanks the documentation was hard for me.

[@amalirfan]

Could pls tell me the dependency packages, I am noob, sorry if the answer obvious.

[@amalirfan]

I have installed libgtk-3-dev and it works, could any one find me any other programs, actively developed in C?

[@arcanelore168]

I'd like to get a course on this. I want to create a IDE like VSCode or Atom.

[@EngineerMan]

You should look into Electron. That's what both of those are made in.

[@sachinprabhu1571]

What operating system do you use? Fedora?

[@SteveHazel]

at the risk of ridicule for commenting on an old video and about linux installs... i've got gcc8, and i THINK this chromebox has gtk-3. but the gtk dir ain't in my include and i haven't messed with pkg-config yet (command not found). tryna make this dang chromeos debian work fer me... Oh and a video about your opinion on Qt versus gtk pleeeeez :)

[@eugenenovikov671]

Hello, i installed gtk through msys2 pacman, what should i write in os windows in system path variable e:\msys64\mingw64\bin or e:\msys64\mingw64\include or e:\msys64 or e:\msys64\mingw64?

[@SumitSingh-sb6jn]

Which software are you using for writing of code?

[@shivashankar28]

Its called Atom Text editor just google it bro

[@SumitSingh-sb6jn]

Thanks pal

[@shivashankar28]

@@SumitSingh-sb6jnHere it is atom.io. This is a slow text editor, i recommend VS Code which is better in every aspect than Atom :)

[@SumitSingh-sb6jn]

How to set up atom for C environment

[@maxi0361]

I really want to know how to develop Graphic application on linux, thanks.

[@EngineerMan]

I had a gtk video.

[@AGUNGKAYA]

Actually the easiest is using lazarus. Check that out... But still, C is the most respected language if u want some proud..lol

[@NymezWoW]

Agung Sudrajat Supriatna Object Pascal is a dead language. I would strongly recommend to not use them for new projects. If you want a Lazarus/Delphi style of GUI Desiner you should go for things like Visual Studio or QtCreator. Those are way more modern and feature rich.

[@virginiakennedy6078]

7467 Judson Islands

[@zonayedpca]

Exactly!

[@octavianc.2569]

(Having this many views for such a new video) You're welcome :)

[@EngineerMan]

Ha, thanks. This is going to be, without question, my most popular video to date. Primarily, I hope it helps you though.

[@octavianc.2569]

You mentioned on reddit something about creating a separate video series for Linux desktop app development. Seriously, there is a lot of potential/gapps to fill in in this area and people (devs) don't generally agree on what's the best tool for the job (Qt, perhaps?). Also you could inspire lots and lots of people to create more *NATIVE* graphical interface software for Linux/cross-platform. Save us from all this Electron / NW.JS garbage.

[@EngineerMan]

Yeah there is already a dispute on my post on Reddit regarding tech. I did mention a possible series. It's such a HUGE topic. Atom editor (the editor I use in all of my videos) was created using Electron. I'm not sold on it though, there are a lot of skeletons and dark magic being hidden beneath what appears to be a welcoming exterior of "cross platform desktop app development". When I use Electron apps, I can't help but think it's just Chrome without tabs and an address bar.

[@LMGaming0]

Why i can't use librarie GTK .. " gtk/gtk.h: No such file or directory "

[@bonbonpony]

Did you install it?

[@mandinh18]

@@bonbonpony gcc `pkg-config --cflags gtk+-3.0` -o main main.cpp `pkg-config --libs gtk+-3.0`

[@bonbonpony]

@@mandinh18 I know. I wasn't the one asking.

[@danchuk3927]

Couldn't you like... run it at least once?

[@officialgrasptechnology1804]

Kmt

[@Gabob1457]

Is that C or C++?

[@antonio-aka-dhellion]

C

[@Crux161]

On macOS it takes more time to get gtk setup than anything else 🤦‍♂️ if you use brew, macports, fink etc you need to create a new user account that doesn’t make use of those package managers. It messes with the build environment and makes everything fail. So -rerunning the install as a new user “gtk” 😊…🤦‍♂️

[@nattakiet1]

Too much step for one component.

[@Nunya58294]

Welcome to application development.

[@freeNode5]

wtf... you didn't run it at the end???

[@gomezjp]

Yes, he did. It's in the lower part of the video . 2 boxes, and an adittional one with the sum result

[@juanguz03]

boo! i need to view outputs

[@Nunya58294]

Booo you're stupid 👎👎👎👎

[@RaphaelShaw-x9k]

54866 Eli Prairie