I have been looking for a good pygtk tutorial for a very long time. I have found a few tutorials which where an overkill, so I don't link to them. By over kill I mean that they where full with details which prevented me from actually having an application working. I found this nice pygtk tutorial, which is actually more a capabilities demonstration. After reading for a few hours, I got intrigued. But I was very frustrated since the tutorial does not produce any real life example. For example, I would have expand the calculator example to working one. I did a Google search and bumped into this pygtk calculator working example. After a couple of more hours, I have managed to produce the following "Hello World!" pygtk application which demonstrates some basic pygtk principles:
#!/usr/bin/python
# A Usefull and Active PyGTK Example
#
# This example demonstrates a few Widgets which actually do
# some stuff, and interact with each other.
#
# oz nahum
# linuxpixies.blogspot.com
# August 2011
import gtk
class PyApp(gtk.Window):
def __init__(self):
super(PyApp, self).__init__()
self.set_title("Entry")
self.set_size_request(250, 200)
self.set_position(gtk.WIN_POS_CENTER)
self.fixed = gtk.Fixed()
self.label = gtk.Label("Please Enter Your Name below")
self.fixed.put(self.label, 60, 40)
self.entry = gtk.Entry()
self.entry.add_events(gtk.gdk.KEY_RELEASE_MASK)
self.fixed.put(self.entry, 60, 100)
self.entry.set_text("bla")
self.UserName=self.entry.get_text()
self.outlabel=gtk.Label('name')
self.fixed.put(self.outlabel, 60,180)
self.button = gtk.Button("Greeting:")
self.fixed.put(self.button, 60,140)
self.button.connect("clicked",self.greeting)
self.clearbutton = gtk.Button("Clear")
self.fixed.put(self.clearbutton, 140,140)
self.clearbutton.connect("clicked",self.cleartxt)
self.button = gtk.Button("Close")
self.button.connect("clicked",gtk.main_quit)
self.fixed.put(self.button, 200,140)
self.connect("destroy", gtk.main_quit)
self.add(self.fixed)
self.show_all()
def greeting(self, event):
self.outlabel.set_text("Hello "+self.UserName)
self.entry.set_text('Hello '+self.UserName)
def cleartxt(self, event):
self.entry.set_text("")
PyApp()
gtk.main()
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