Genie sample code

These pages host the Genie examples that were listed on the GNOME Wiki under Projects/Genie/Examples. The original wiki is retired; the sources here are taken from the wiki archive and adapted only where noted (for example clearer tree walks or compile filenames). Each page is self-contained: you can copy a fenced block into a .gs file and compile it. Genie requires tab characters for indentation; the fenced sources here use tabs so they work with valac after copy-paste.

Legacy APIs

Several samples target GTK+ 2, GTK+ 3, libsoup 2.4, or older pkg-config names. They are useful for learning Genie syntax and patterns, but expect to adjust packages and APIs for a current desktop or distribution.

Samples

• Basic samples — hello world, I/O, math, arguments, files, processes, minimal GObject class.
• Advanced sample — custom event and a number-guessing game.
• Cairo sample — GTK drawing with Cairo, plus a GTK+ 2 shaped clock window.
• Curses sample — minimal ncurses program.
• GIO networking sample — small threaded TCP HTTP server.
• LibSoup sample — tiny Soup.Server with HTML and XML routes.
• XML sample (libxml2) — parse, build in memory, and Xml.TextWriter output.

See also

• Introduction to Genie — tutorial in this documentation.
• Tutorials, Blogs and Code Examples — more external links.
• Vala sample code — many related patterns in Vala syntax.