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      <name>Ekaterina Gerasimova</name>

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      <years>2013</years>

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      <name>Gordon Hill</name>

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    <desc>Include bindings necessary to run your script.</desc>

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  <title>Gjs and Gtk</title>

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<link href="https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Gjs">Gjs</link> is a

  JavaScript binding for GNOME and can be used to interact with Gtk. 

  href="http://www.gtk.org/">Gtk</link> is a toolkit for creating graphical user

  interfaces.
 
Open a text editor and paste in the lines of code. The

  complete script is available in the 

  xref="tour-summary">Summary</link>.
 
Create an object using

  your class and call the run() method:
 <example>

  
Call the Gjs JavaScript binding. This instructs the shell to run this script

  with Gjs.

#!/usr/bin/gjs

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Import gi.Gtk for Gtk functions. As both

  version 3.0 and 4.0 may be installed, make sure that the desired version

  is imported first.

imports.gi.versions.Gtk = '3.0';

const Gtk = imports.gi.Gtk;

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