Tutorials - vmagnin/gtk-fortran GitHub Wiki

In this section of the documentation, you will find tutorials to get started with gtk-fortran and GTK. Most of our tutorials are for GTK 4.

Our tutorials

• Installation: everything needed to install gtk-fortran on your machine (branches, dependencies) with detailed instructions for Linux, Windows, macOS and FreeBSD.
• My first gtk-fortran application : you will create a GtkApplication with a window, some widgets and you will draw a bitmap image in Fortran. Based on GTK 4 but the modifications for GTK 3 are given.
• Drawing an image in a PNG file (without GUI) : you will draw in a PNG file using the GdkPixbuf library. Only 45 lines of Fortran code to draw a beautiful coloured Sierpinski Triangle!
• A program also usable without GUI : you can write a gtk-fortran application that can be built with or without its GUI, in order to be executable on a machine where gtk-fortran is not installed.
• Using Glade3 and gtkf-sketcher to build more easily a complicated GUI (GTK 3 only).
• Using gtk-fortran as a fpm dependency.
• Debugging with GtkInspector : inspect and edit your GUI on the fly.
• Learning from examples.
• Video tutorials.

External gtk-fortran tutorials

• Programming in Modern Fortran - A HyperText-based introduction to programming in Fortran 2003, 2008, and 2018 on Unix. In the "User Interfaces, Graphics, and Plotting" chapter, you will find gtk-fortran.
• How to use GTK-Fortran with Code::Blocks IDE.

External GTK tutorials

• The awesome Michael B. YouTube channel offers more than two hundreds video tutorials on GTK 3, and now GTK 4 (C language) !
• Gtk4 Tutorial for beginners: using C language.
• GTK4 for Graphical User Interfaces, with the Nim Programming Language: a "book" about GTK 4 (around ~67 printed pages).
• GtkDcoding - Musings of a GtkD Coder (GTK 3)
• (fr) Cours d'interfaces graphiques d'Edouard Thiel (Université d'Aix-Marseille), en langage C et avec GTK 3.
• GNOME Human Interface Guidelines.