Skip to content

Vala Documentation

Main Navigation Get Started Tutorials Guides

Appearance

Sidebar Navigation

Language Features and Introductory Samples

Basic Samples

Intermediate Samples

String Sample

Character Sample

Signals and Callbacks

Properties Sample

Conditional Compilation Sample

Basics: Collections, Files, I/O, Networking, IPC

Vala Collections: libgee

List Sample

Set Sample

Map Example

Syntactic Sugar

Customizing the equality function

Iterable Sample

GIO Samples

GIO Compression Sample

GIO Settings Sample

GIO Networking Sample

Libsoup Samples

D-Bus Basic (GDBus) Samples

D-Bus Client Examples

Async Method Samples

GLib Samples

Date and Time Sample

IO Channels Sample

GLib Collections Sample

Markup Parser Sample (Simple XML)

Plugin Sample (GModule)

GValue Sample

TypeModule Sample

Testing Samples

Threading Samples

Database samples

SQLite (sqlite3)

PostgreSQL (libpq)

GNOME Data Access (Libgda)

Multimedia and Graphics Samples

GStreamer

Cairo

Pango and Cairo

Poppler (PDF)

SDL

OpenGL

PulseAudio

GTK4 Samples

Minimal App

Basic App

Synchronising Widgets

Text File Viewer

ListView

ListView with CheckButtons

ColumnView

Clipboard

Entry Completion with Two Cells

Drag and Drop

Other samples

Curses (ncurses)

GSF (ZIP)

GSL

Input

Interfaces implemented in C

Loudmouth (XMPP)

Lua embedding

NTP client (Posix UDP)

Weather HTTP client (GIO)

TIFF

USB (libusb)

XML (libxml2)

JSON (json-glib)

Shared library and introspection

Windows cross-build

GUPnP

On this page

Multimedia and graphics samples

These pages contain Vala Multimedia and graphics examples

GStreamer (audio and video pipelines)
Cairo drawing with GTK
Pango and Cairo (text layout and metrics)
Poppler (PDF rendering)
SDL (SDL 3 with sdl3-vapi)
OpenGL (GLFW, Epoxy / ValaGL)
PulseAudio (asynchronous playback)

Last updated:

Pager

Previous pageGNOME Data Access (Libgda)

Next pageGStreamer