Table of Contents

I. API Reference

General - Library initialization and miscellaneous functions

Multi-head Support Overview - Overview of GdkDisplay and GdkScreen

GdkDisplay - Controls the keyboard/mouse pointer grabs and a set of GdkScreens

GdkDisplayManager - Maintains a list of all open GdkDisplays

GdkScreen - Object representing a physical screen

Points, Rectangles and Regions - Simple graphical data types

Graphics Contexts - Objects to encapsulate drawing properties

Drawing Primitives - Functions for drawing points, lines, arcs, and text

Bitmaps and Pixmaps - Offscreen drawables

GdkRGB - Renders RGB, grayscale, or indexed image data to a GdkDrawable

Images - A client-side area for bit-mapped graphics

Pixbufs - Functions for rendering pixbufs on drawables

Colormaps and Colors - Manipulation of colors and colormaps

Visuals - Low-level display hardware information

Fonts - Loading and manipulating fonts

Cursors - Standard and pixmap cursors

Windows - Onscreen display areas in the target window system

Events - Functions for handling events from the window system

Event Structures - Data structures specific to each type of event

Key Values - Functions for manipulating keyboard codes

Selections - Functions for transfering data via the X selection mechanism

Drag and Drop - Functions for controlling drag and drop handling

Properties and Atoms - Functions to manipulate properties on windows

Threads - Functions for using GDK in multi-threaded programs

Input - Callbacks on file descriptors

Input Devices - Functions for handling extended input devices

Pango Interaction - Using Pango in GDK

X Window System Interaction - X backend-specific functions

Index

Index of deprecated symbols

Index of new symbols in 2.2

Index of new symbols in 2.4

Index of new symbols in 2.6