Gui Glossary
Browse 6 gui terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.
6 Gui Terms
- GTK
- The GIMP Toolkit — a cross-platform widget toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces, originally developed for GIMP and now the foundation of the GNOME...
- Main Loop
- The central infinite loop in a program — particularly game engines, GUI applications, and servers — that repeatedly polls for input, updates state, and renders...
- Qt
- A cross-platform C++ application framework primarily used for building graphical user interfaces, though it also provides modules for networking, databases,...
- Smalltalk
- The language that defined object-oriented programming as we know it. Developed at Xerox PARC alongside the modern GUI, Smalltalk treats everything as an object...
- System Tray
- A designated area of the desktop taskbar (notification area on Windows, menu bar on macOS) where background applications display persistent status icons and...
- Widget
- A reusable UI element — button, text field, slider, dropdown — that encapsulates both appearance and behavior. In Flutter, everything is a widget; in desktop...
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