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      <name>Ekaterina Gerasimova</name>
      <email its:translate="no">kittykat3756@gmail.com</email>
      <years>2013</years>
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    <desc>Include bindings necessary to run your script.</desc>
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  <title>Gjs and Gtk</title>
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  <p><link href="https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Gjs">Gjs</link> is a
  JavaScript binding for GNOME and can be used to interact with Gtk. <link
  href="http://www.gtk.org/">Gtk</link> is a toolkit for creating graphical user
  interfaces.</p> <p>Open a text editor and paste in the lines of code. The
  complete script is available in the <link
  xref="tour-summary">Summary</link>.</p> <p>Create an <code>object</code> using
  your <code>class</code> and call the <code>run()</code> method:</p> <example>
  <p>Call the Gjs JavaScript binding. This instructs the shell to run this script
  with Gjs.</p>

  <code><![CDATA[
#!/usr/bin/gjs
]]></code>

  <p>Import <code>gi.Gtk</code> for <code>Gtk</code> functions. As both
  version 3.0 and 4.0 may be installed, make sure that the desired version
  is imported first.</p>

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imports.gi.versions.Gtk = '3.0';
const Gtk = imports.gi.Gtk;
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