For a detailed walk-through of creating a GTK+ dialog in C, see Getting Started with GTK+
Writing a hello world GTK+ dialog in C can be done as seen in the code sample below:
#include <gtk/gtk.h>
static void
activate (GtkApplication* app,
gpointer user_data)
{
GtkWidget *window;
GtkWidget *label;
window = gtk_application_window_new (app);
label = gtk_label_new ("Hello GNOME!");
gtk_container_add (GTK_CONTAINER (window), label);
gtk_window_set_title (GTK_WINDOW (window), "Welcome to GNOME");
gtk_window_set_default_size (GTK_WINDOW (window), 200, 100);
gtk_widget_show_all (window);
}
int
main (int argc,
char **argv)
{
GtkApplication *app;
int status;
app = gtk_application_new (NULL, G_APPLICATION_FLAGS_NONE);
g_signal_connect (app, "activate", G_CALLBACK (activate), NULL);
status = g_application_run (G_APPLICATION (app), argc, argv);
g_object_unref (app);
return status;
}
GtkApplication initializes GTK+. It also connects the