Kotlin/Native application using `gtk-kt` to play v...

# gui

[Clocks]

Kotlin/Native application using gtk-kt to play video.
(There is audio, but pipewire is being a tad buggy so it is not included)

I made this in under an hour, with a bit of debugging. It's impressively easy to make a GTK video player with Kotlin/Native :D
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[therealbluepandabear]

That's really interesting, first time I've heard about GTK bindings for Kotlin.

[Clocks]

Yes, I've been working on them frantically

[therealbluepandabear]

Ah, you made it?

[therealbluepandabear]

That's really impressive!

[Clocks]

Thanks! If you do decide to experiment with it, I'm available for help on Matrix

[therealbluepandabear]

What is Matrix?

Yeah I am interested, I haven't used GTK though, do I need to learn GTK if I want to learn these bindings?

Also I would appreciate a tutorial if you have one for getting started 🙂

[Clocks]

Matrix is a decentralized open source chat platform.

You will not need to know GTK C code, but the code is mostly idiomatic with the base GTK code. So the guides are nearly 1:1.

[Clocks]

You can find the link to the matrix room in the project readme, and for tutorials I would suggest looking at the GTK tutorial examples and comparing it to the Kotlin equivalents

[therealbluepandabear]

Have you got the link to the readme, can't seem to find it?

[Clocks]

https://gitlab.com/gtk-kt/gtk-kt

[Clocks]

Here is the Kotlin gtk examples https://gitlab.com/gtk-kt/gtk-kt/-/tree/gtk-4/examples

[Clocks]

And they have links to their original counterparts

[therealbluepandabear]

Nice, is there some sort of way you can make a profit from making GTK apps or it mostly for fun

[Clocks]

GTK is GPL and GTK-KT is AGPL

[Clocks]

Profiting is based on the method you use

[Clocks]

Please read the licenses properly

[therealbluepandabear]

Ah ok, I'll take a look.

[Marshall]

I just ran across this project this weekend. Glad to see some work being done with GTK and Kotlin Native

[Marshall]

I have mostly used kotlin with tornadofx but it is just too heavy for some projects

[Marshall]

Looked into using rust with GTK but rust seems like a terrible language