= Low level GTK3 bindings for the Nim programming language
(c) Stefan Salewski                                     
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//(c) Stefan Salewski +
//2017

This repository contains bindings from the Nim programming language to the GTK3 _GUI_ (_Graphical User Interface_) library and related libraries.

https://nim-lang.org/[Nim] is a modern universal programming language.

https://www.gtk.org/[GTK], also known as the _Gimp Tool Kit_ and now sometimes also called _Gnome Tool Kit_, is a Graphical User Interface library.

Basically this is an updated copy of the individual files from https://github.com/ngtk3 to form a single package which can be installed with
Nim's package manager. The bindings are created with c2nim  v 0.9.13 from latest GTK 3.22 header files.

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# install
nimble install oldgtk3
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After install, you can use this package in the same way as you have used the ngtk3 modules, but import has now the qualified form `import oldgtk3/[glib, gobject, gdk, gtk, cairo, pango]`.

This package is only tested with 64 bit Linux currently.

The name oldgtk3 is a bit misleading -- we need a unique toplevel name to avoid name conflicts with the legacy floating gtk2 related packages, and at the same time
the name is a hint that with package *gintro* we now have even high level, gobject-introspection based bindings.

Small test examples are available in the subdirectories called tests in this repository.

Later I will extend this README file with some example programs and I will modify the *NEd* editor and the *nim-chess* game for using this package.
Basically for that only the import lists have to be modified.