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Widget toolkit - Definition and Overview |
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In computer programming, widget toolkits (or GUI toolkits) are sets of basic building elements for graphical user interfaces. They are often implemented as a library, or application framework.
See widget (computing) for a list of widgets.
Popular Widget Toolkits
- Low-level widget toolkits:
- Integrated in the operating system:
- As a separate layer on top of the operating system:
- The X Window System contains primitive building blocks, but they are almost always accessed using either Motif, GTK or Qt.
- High-level widget toolkits:
- On Macintosh:
- On MS Windows:
- On Unix, under the X Window System:
- Cross-platform, based on the programming language Java:
- The Abstract Windowing Toolkit is used in Java applications. It will typically use another toolkit on the selected platform in turn.
- Swing is Sun's replacement for AWT in newer Java versions
- Cross-platform, based on the programming languages C or C++, often with bindings to other languages:
- Tk a widget set accessed from Tcl and other high-level script languages.
- GTK, open source (LGPL), primarily for X Window, ported to / emulated under other platforms; used in the GNOME desktop
- Qt, open source (GPL) under Linux / X Window, proprietary under Mac OS and MS Windows; used in KDE
- wxWidgets (formerly wxWindows), open source (relaxed LGPL), abstracts toolkits across several platforms for C++ ,Python and Perl
- FOX toolkit, open source (LGPL), genuinely cross-platform
External links
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Example Usage of toolkit |
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Business_Briefs: Digital toolkit For Rock Stars: Tap into a growing arsenal of online resources that can help you build buzz and.. http://bit.ly/6tpL1F |
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saurabhg: @graiz is it going to be a UI prototyping tool? Or a complete app generation toolkit? |
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SilverlightNews: Walkthrough: The power of the November 2009 Silverlight toolkit testing tools - http://snurl.com/teshh |
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