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GDK (GIMP Drawing Kit) is a computer graphics library that acts as a wrapper around the low-level drawing and windowing functions provided by the underlying graphics system. Computer graphics are Graphics created by Computers and more generally the Representation and Manipulation of Pictorial Data In Computer science, a library is a collection of Subroutines used to develop Software. In Computer programming, the adapter design pattern (often referred to as the wrapper pattern or simply a wrapper) translates one interface Originally developed on the X Window System, GDK lies between the X server and the GTK+ library, handling basic rendering such as drawing primitives, raster graphics (bitmaps), cursors, fonts, as well as window events and drag-and-drop functionality. GTK+, or The GIMP Toolkit, is a Cross-platform Widget toolkit for creating Graphical user interfaces It is one of the most popular toolkits In Computer graphics, a raster graphics image or bitmap, is a Data structure representing a generally rectangular grid of Pixels In computing a cursor is an indicator used to show the position on a Computer monitor or other Display device that will respond to input from a text input or In typography a font (also fount) is traditionally defined as a complete character set of a single size and style of a particular Typeface. In Computer Graphical user interfaces drag-and-drop is the action of (or support for the action of Clicking on a virtual object and dragging it to a different

Like GTK, GDK is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License. The GNU Lesser General Public License (formerly the GNU Library General Public License) or LGPL is a Free software license published by the Free Software

GDK is an important part of GTK+'s portability. Since low-level cross-platform functionality is already provided by GLib, all that is needed to make GTK+ run on other platforms is to port GDK to the underlying operating system's graphics layer. In Computing, GLib refers to a cross-platform software utility library. An operating system (commonly abbreviated OS and O/S) is the software component of a Computer system that is responsible for the management and coordination Hence, the GDK ports to Win32 and Quartz are what makes GTK+ applications run on Windows and Mac OS X, respectively. The Windows API, informally WinAPI, is Microsoft's core set of Application programming interfaces (APIs available in the Microsoft Windows Operating Quartz specifically refers to a pair of Mac OS X technologies each part of the Core Graphics framework Quartz 2D and Quartz Compositor. Microsoft Windows is a series of Software Operating systems and Graphical user interfaces produced by Microsoft. Mac OS X (mæk oʊ ɛs tɛn is a line of computer Operating systems developed marketed and sold by Apple Inc, the latest of which is pre-loaded on all currently

Starting with GTK+ 2. 8, GDK supports Cairo. Cairo is a Software library used to provide a Vector graphics -based device-independent API for Software developers It is designed to provide

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