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In this chapter, I discussed the features of Glade and the Gtk+ toolkit and how to use these two technology stacks collaboratively to build platform-independent GUIs. Gtk+ acts as a multiplatform toolkit for creating GUIs and includes a comprehensive set of controls (known as widgets) that can be used to build your application’s user interface by implementing the Gtk# .NET wrapper to access the Gtk+ API from your Mono application. Glade provides a GUI designer that allows you to build your user interfaces using Gtk+ widgets and save them in a language-independent format called XML. To accompany the designer, Glade also provides libraries that you can use to harness your user interfaces and dynamically load and use them at runtime with a variety of languages, including those supported by Mono.
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(2006). Introducing Gtk+, Glade, and User Interfaces. In: Practical Mono. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0097-0_7
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