# Gtk example help
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/gtk-example-help/92655
**Category:** New to Julia
**Tags:** question
**Created:** [January 8, 2023, 1:29am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/gtk-example-help/92655 "2023-01-08T01:29:33Z")
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### Author:  [@rbme](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rbme)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2023, 1:29am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/gtk-example-help/92655/1 "2023-01-08T01:29:33Z")
New to programming and Julia. Trying out an example with the GTk package. It runs OK calling the .jl file under the julia REPL. include(“gtktest.jl”). Window comes up and when I press the button i get the "button was pressed " response. When I try to run the script under the windows command prompt c:\ julia gtktest.jl nothing happens. The path is good . it’s not a “path” issue. I placed the file in the same directory as the julia.exe executable.
using Gtk
win = GtkWindow(“My First Gtk.jl Program”, 400, 200)
b = GtkButton(“Click Me”)
push!(win,b)
function on\_button\_clicked(w)
println(“The button has been clicked”)
end
signal\_connect(on\_button\_clicked, b, “clicked”)
showall(win)
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### Author:  [@dylanxyz](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/dylanxyz)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2023, 6:45am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/gtk-example-help/92655/2 "2023-01-08T06:45:56Z")
From the [Non REPL Usage · Gtk.jl](https://juliagraphics.github.io/Gtk.jl/latest/manual/nonreplusage/#Non-REPL-Usage-1) documentation, your program should wait for the window to be closed if you wish to run the program outside of the Julia REPL, using this piece of code:
```julia
if !isinteractive()
c = Condition()
signal_connect(win, :destroy) do widget
notify(c)
end
@async Gtk.gtk_main()
wait(c)
end
```
Essentially, this will create a `Condition` object that the program will “wait” until it is notified when the window is closed. This will keep the program running instead of immediately closing.
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### Author:  [@rbme](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rbme)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2023, 12:57am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/gtk-example-help/92655/3 "2023-01-09T00:57:38Z")
Thanks