Widget toolkit

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

• High-level widget toolkits\n**Xaw, the Project Athena widget set for the X Window System\n**The Abstract Windowing Toolkit is used in Java applications. It will typically use another toolkit on the selected platform in turn.\n**Cocoa - used in Mac OS X (see also Aqua)\n**GNUstep\n**GTK used in GNOME\n**MacApp Macintosh framework\n**MacZoop Macintosh C++ framework\n**MetaCard\n**The Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC) contain several useful widgets for the Microsoft Windows environment.\n**Motif used in the Common Desktop Environment\n**The Object Windows Library is sort of Borland's alternative to MFC\n**The Visual Component Library (VCL) is Borland's toolkit used in its C++ Builder and Delphi products.\n**Powerplant Macintosh framework\n**Qt used in KDE\n**Swing is Sun's replacement for AWT in newer Java versions\n**Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) is Eclipse.org's toolkit used to build Eclipse, Websphere and other products \n**Tk a widget set accessed from Tcl and other high-level languages.\n**WINGs WINGs Is Not GNUstep\n**wxWidgets (formerly wxWindows) abstracts toolkits across several platforms for C++ ,Python and Perl.\n*Low-level widget toolkits\n**The Windows API used in Microsoft Windows\n**The X Window System contains primitive building blocks, but they are almost always accessed using either Motif, GTK or Qt.\n**The Mac OS toolbox, or Macintosh APIs, formerly located in ROM, but in "new world" Macs, on disk.

External links

\n*A GUI Toolkit Framework Page\n*Survey of Widget sets Category:Human-computer interaction