GTK & GDK libs difference

[mdurham]

Hi,
What's the difference between the GTK and GDK libs?
What is each for?
I've just started programming C++ using Anjuta under Linux and of course I'm a bit overwhelmed by all the programming options.

TIA. Mike

[dudus]

Same situation here. I'm bloated with all the gui api's. And I don't know how to use any.

[fct]

Check here for a description of GTK and underlying libs (GDK is one of them):

http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/gtk.html

Except for a few cases, when programming GTK apps you won't touch any of the underlying libs, so just learn GTK for the time being. This tutorial should help:

http://www.gtk.org/tutorial/

[mdurham]

Thanks fct, I'll do that.

Mike