Re: [pygtk] Splitting things up

2010-06-28 Thread Neil Dugan
Elver Loho wrote: Hi! I'm a PyGTK newbie. I built a small (less than 1k lines) PyGTK-based application back in 2006 that used SQLObject and was basically a simple GUI for editing things in a MySQL database table. It was a mixed experience for me. On the one hand designing a GUI with

Re: [pygtk] gtk.ComboBoxEntry and changed event on keystrokes.

2010-03-30 Thread Neil Dugan
Osmo Maatta wrote: Hello, I have a small application that has a search-field (gtk.ComboBoxEntry) and a button to start a search job. The application will start a new search if user: 1) Selects an item from the gtk.ComboBoxEntry's drop-down list. This is handled by gtk.ComboBoxEntry's

Re: [pygtk] Tool button with menu items and icons.

2010-03-27 Thread Neil Dugan
Osmo Maatta wrote: Hello, My app has a tool-button with menu. I want to populate this menu with menu-items that have both a label and icon. The menu items appear but the images (icons) are not shown. See this picture (tool button with menu + three menu-items shown)

Re: [pygtk] Help with box layout

2010-03-15 Thread Neil Dugan
Nikolaus Rath wrote: | -vbox.pack_start(self.make_shot_box(), False) | + vbox.pack_start(self.make_shot_box(), False, False) Isn't the third parameter to pack_start ignored anyway if the second one is False? No! the prototype is : def pack_start(child, expand=True,

Re: [pygtk] Help with box layout

2010-03-14 Thread Neil Dugan
Nikolaus Rath wrote: Neil Dugan py...@butterflystitches.com.au writes: Nikolaus Rath wrote: Hello, For some reason I'm just not able to figure out how use the packing parameters in the right way to get the layout that I want. Can someone help me out? What I want is this: - In the first

Re: [pygtk] Help with box layout

2010-03-12 Thread Neil Dugan
Nikolaus Rath wrote: Hello, For some reason I'm just not able to figure out how use the packing parameters in the right way to get the layout that I want. Can someone help me out? What I want is this: - In the first row, the label and spin button should be centered and right next

Re: [pygtk] [ANNOUNCE] PyPoppler 0.12.0

2009-09-27 Thread Neil Dugan
Gian Mario Tagliaretti wrote: I am pleased to announce version 0.12.0 of the Python bindings for Poppler. It is available at: http://launchpad.net/poppler-python/trunk/development/+download/pypoppler-0.12.0.tar.gz md5: 78e9655067b8da2c8ad2565b2620e2f9 PyPoppler 0.12.0 (Sep 26 2009)

Re: [pygtk] Larger Font Size?

2009-08-14 Thread Neil Dugan
Art Hunkins wrote: I'd like to make a general declaration to set font size to 14 in my script. On another list I was given a suggestion that gave rise to the following: Would it be sufficient to: declare: from sugar.graphics import style and early in my __init__ method specify:

Re: [pygtk] GTK_IS_WIDGET on subclass of a widget fails

2009-05-22 Thread Neil Dugan
Christian Becke wrote: Jeffrey Finkelstein schrieb: I'm new to Gtk. I tried to create a subclass of an HBox and add it to a window, but I get a GtkWarning telling me that the assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET()' fails on the instance of my subclass. For example: ===code=== from gtk import

Re: [pygtk] Combobox with thousands of rows

2009-03-26 Thread Neil Dugan
Rob Brown-Bayliss wrote: Hi. I need a way to let users pick one of approx 8000 names from a list and had thought to use a combobox but it is far too slow taking several seconds to pop up, and scrolling is unusable. Does any one have an idea or solution that does not take up too much

Re: [pygtk] Calendar popup under an entry

2009-03-23 Thread Neil Dugan
Timo wrote: Hello, I would like to have a gtk.Calendar to popup under a gtk.Entry as soon as the user clicks on the entry. So I use the focus-in-event to capture when the user clicks in the entry. But I can't seem to find a way to popup a calendar. Timo

Re: [pygtk] quoting text for markup

2009-03-22 Thread Neil Dugan
Darren Hart wrote: On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:59 AM, Walter Leibbrandt wal...@translate.org.za wrote: Hi Darren Hart wrote: When adding text with an character to a cellrenderertext I get some rendering glitches (and the actual text doesn't get rendered at all). Is there a standard

Re: [pygtk] Scrolling to the previous position in a TreeView

2009-01-29 Thread Neil Dugan
Lionel Dricot wrote: Hello, I'm displaying a treeview in my application and I update the content by creating a new treestore and then, once the treestore is create, I replace the old one with set_model. Unfortunatly, the scroll position is not preserved and, at each refresh, the scroll

Re: [pygtk] Multi gtk.EventBox and gtk.Image cause artefacts

2009-01-27 Thread Neil Dugan
MATTHIEU CADET wrote: According to my problem with gtkEventBox, i've only one solution i think there is a way to force refresh all windows and widgets ? maybe my problem is a display bug or maybe i have too much gtkEventBox with gtkImage . Please if someone have any solution for me. I

Re: [pygtk] Multi gtk.EventBox and gtk.Image cause artefacts

2009-01-23 Thread Neil Dugan
MATTHIEU CADET wrote: I've found a solution to remove those artefacts, but the solution is to don't use gtk.EventBox and just use gtk.Image... But for the moment its not very good for me because i need to keep the image as clickable so i can get informations of wich image is clicked.

Re: [pygtk] [Glade-devel] how to add window as a page to a notebook

2009-01-21 Thread Neil Dugan
Tristan Van Berkom wrote: On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 1:54 AM, anusha k anuha...@gmail.com wrote: hi, I am using glade and pygtk to develop an accounting software.In that we have two glade files .first glade file contain the main window and the note book and the second glade contains the another

Re: [pygtk] scrolledwindows and treeview

2008-12-28 Thread Neil Dugan
francesco wrote: Hi, i have a treeview inside a scrolledwindows when i append a new row scrolledwindows daesn't scroll until bottom but stay up, if i scrolled by hand until bottom and so append a new row it scroll a bit and cover the last row inserted. HOw can i make scrolledwindows to

Re: [pygtk] hide on delete_event()

2008-12-08 Thread Neil Dugan
Peyman wrote: Hello I am new to this mailing list. Originally I was posting to the glade mailing list My question is a simple one, I want my window to hide when I close it (by clicking 'x'). I have browsed the web and the answer appears to be def

Re: [pygtk] Totals in TreeView

2008-10-02 Thread Neil Dugan
Alessandro Dentella wrote: Hi list, I try wit a different subject... sometime that makes the difference! I guess I'm not the only one that tried adding a different look for a row. In internet there's plenty of solutions via a model column and some via set_cell_data_func. I

Re: [pygtk] Log window

2008-09-23 Thread Neil Dugan
Frédéric wrote: Le 17/9/2008, Frédéric [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit: My app heavily uses the logging module to log a lot of things. As this app mainly runs on a Nokia Internet Tablet, I don't want to log in a file. I would prefer to log in a special object, and be able to show/hide the logs

Re: [pygtk] CellRendererButton, or how to pack a Button inside a TreeView

2008-09-21 Thread Neil Dugan
Walter Leibbrandt wrote: Hi, I took the liberty of doing a quick search and found this: http://propython.googlecode.com/svn/gui/chaveiro/eagle.py (class _CellRendererButton). I don't know if/how it works, but that should get you started. :) Regards, Walter Federico wrote: Hi all, Is

Re: [pygtk] How to add items to an empty ComboBox / ComboBoxEntry (created with glade) ?

2008-09-21 Thread Neil Dugan
Mats Taraldsvik wrote: Dear list, I'm creating an application with pyGTK and Glade. In this I want to populate a combobox(2) depending on the selected item in another combobox(1). Usually, I add None as an item of the comboboxes in glade, because nothing happens when I try to add items

Re: [pygtk] ScrolledWindow TextView Problem.

2008-09-14 Thread Neil Dugan
Dominic Salemno wrote: Greetings, Here resides my issue! I have a ScrolledWindow being utilized inside my application. Contained inside of the ScrolledWindow is a TextView widget. Last, but certainly not least, is a TextBuffer associated with the TextView widget. Simple... correct? I

Re: [pygtk] Widget packing problem

2008-08-09 Thread Neil Dugan
Boris Filipov wrote: Hello, this is my first post to this list and I hope i don't offend anyone. I'm writing an application which consists of the following: Window - VBox - HBox - Button1 Button2 Table - 16 Rows and 16 columns filled

Re: [pygtk] installing on UBUNTU Hardy Heron

2008-07-18 Thread Neil Dugan
randy wrote: I'm trying to install PyGtk on UBUNTU Hardy Heron for development, can't make it work. I'm trying to run the demo called base.py: #!/usr/bin/env python # example base.py import sys sys.path.append(/usr/share/python-support/python-gobject) import pygtk

Re: [pygtk] installing on UBUNTU Hardy Heron

2008-07-17 Thread Neil Dugan
randy wrote: I'm trying to install PyGtk on UBUNTU Hardy Heron for development, can't make it work. I'm trying to run the demo called base.py: #!/usr/bin/env python # example base.py import sys sys.path.append(/usr/share/python-support/python-gobject) import pygtk

Re: [pygtk] accelerator for an image button.

2008-07-09 Thread Neil Dugan
Gian Mario Tagliaretti wrote: 2007/11/3, Neil Dugan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Neil, I am trying to make an python/gtk+ app. One problem I am having is attaching an accelerator to a image button. This is the code I am using to create the buttons. --- cut --- def index_control(self

Re: [pygtk] TreeView - Making whole row colored

2008-07-09 Thread Neil Dugan
Stephen George wrote: Hi, I am trying to get a treeview (with liststore model) to display rows in different colors based on content in the list. From what I've read in GTK+ 2.0 Tree View Tutorial - Tim-Philipp Muller ( c code based) The most suitable approach for most cases is that you

Re: [pygtk] Formatting floats in treeview

2008-07-09 Thread Neil Dugan
Jeremy S wrote: If you put a float in a treeview, you get a really long decimal, which is almost always not desired. So, after playing around with it for a while, I came up with this code to truncate floats at 1 decimal place: column.set_cell_data_func(renderer,

[pygtk] Geting a window/dialog to appear on a different screen.

2008-06-03 Thread Neil Dugan
Hi, I have a LTSP set-up here. I would like to put a window or dialog on the client screens, but I can't seem to get this to happen I am getting weird errors from gtk.main(). See attachment for the code. The errors I am getting are /media/tmp/testgui:43: GtkWarning: gdk_screen_get_display:

Re: [pygtk] Blocking main loop during execution of external program

2008-05-22 Thread Neil Dugan
Vláďa wrote: Hi, I'd like to ask you for help with solving my problem. First I'll try to describe what I'm doing: I have a PyGTK application which needs to run an external command. I use subprocess.Popen to do it. Then I run a gtk.Dialog (saying Please wait) and wait until the process is

Re: [pygtk] Contant height of GtkProgressBar

2008-05-10 Thread Neil Dugan
Mitko Haralanov wrote: In my application (GUI designed using Glade2), I have a progress bar that is used by multiple parts of the app. Some of the parts display text in the progress bar and others done. The problem that I am having is that the height of the progress bar changes when there is

Re: [pygtk] Automatic actions and gtk.FileChooserButton

2008-04-18 Thread Neil Dugan
Marcus Vinicius Eiffle Duarte wrote: Hi, folks! Sorry if this question seems silly, but I am rather new to python and a total newbie regarding Gtk programming, I googled a lot for a solution to my problem and couldn't find something that worked for me. I created a GUI using Glade, which

Re: [pygtk] Label a different font sizes

2008-04-18 Thread Neil Dugan
Vláďa wrote: Thank you for your reply. I know I have to use set_use_markup(True). All of the Pango markup attributes work for me except of font size. At the top of the page you are referring there is an example: span foreground=blue size=100Blue text/span So I think my code is correct. The

Re: [pygtk] Dialog Lifecycle?

2008-03-22 Thread Neil Dugan
Darren Hart wrote: On 3/19/08, Neil Dugan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Darren Hart wrote: I'm trying to add a dialog bound to a menu item. I created the UI in glade. I use the glade.XML.get_widget() to get the dialog, and then show() it from the menuitem action handler. Then I hide

Re: [pygtk] NEWBIE QUESTION: Simple spinbutton example?

2008-03-22 Thread Neil Dugan
Darren Enns wrote: Hello all! I am slowly learning the Python language, and now I am moving into developing GUI apps using PyGTK. I am bumbling/stumbling around with 'spinbutton'. I know how to make the spinbutton appear, but I don't know how to *properly* return the final value for a

Re: [pygtk] Dialog Lifecycle?

2008-03-19 Thread Neil Dugan
Darren Hart wrote: I'm trying to add a dialog bound to a menu item. I created the UI in glade. I use the glade.XML.get_widget() to get the dialog, and then show() it from the menuitem action handler. Then I hide it when the dialog response handler receives RESPONSE_OK. If I CLOSE the dialog

[pygtk] possible bug in gtk.glade

2008-02-20 Thread Neil Dugan
Hi, I have found a bug but I don't know where it is. I generated a simple glade file with a 'Gnome date' widget in it (just as test). I told glade I didn't want the time widgets displayed, but when I get gtk.glade to generate the window the time widgets are there. glade 3.4.0 python 2.5.1

Re: [pygtk] Toolbar layout button to right

2008-02-19 Thread Neil Dugan
Edward Stow wrote: Hi, I'm having trouble packing a toolbar. I require a toolbar with 3 buttons packed to the left and one that is always on the right. As illustrated below. [Button1__Button2__Button3__Button4] Packing the three to the left is ok. This is the

Re: [pygtk] Yet another threads problem

2008-02-18 Thread Neil Dugan
Mystilleef wrote: Calling Dialog's run method in a thread will crash your app. I learned the hard way (weeks of debugging). I use Windows instead of Dialogs now. Manage showing and hiding the window yourself. Cheers On Feb 18, 2008 7:26 AM, Steve McClure [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use this

[pygtk] python printing and GFax

2008-02-13 Thread Neil Dugan
Hi, When I create a print dialog with gtk.PrintOperation() the GFax virtual fax printer isn't showing up. It is installed and the print requester from gedit does show the GFax printer. Is this a mistake with my set-up ? Or is it a bug with gtk.PrintOperation() or GFax ? Regards Neil.

Re: [pygtk] Re: Guide of PyGTK and Threads

2008-02-10 Thread Neil Dugan
John Stowers wrote: On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 22:44 -0200, Matí­as Alejandro Torres wrote: I have updated my pygtk threaded demo [0] to include progress reporting and non-blocking cancellation. Check out the linked blog post [2] for a good base upon which to build your own threaded pygtk apps.

Re: [pygtk] exiting app

2008-02-10 Thread Neil Dugan
Martin Bilek wrote: hi all, i make an window and connect to function. win = gtk.Window() win.connect(destroy, exitApp) gtk.main() def exitApp(*args)) dlg = gtk.MessageDialog(type=gtk.MESSAGE_WARNING, buttons=gtk.BUTTONS_OK) dlg.set_markup(Please use Exit from Filemenu instead)

[pygtk] Trouble getting a ListStore with dynamic column number.

2008-01-31 Thread Neil Dugan
Hi, I am trying to create a dialog with a gtk.TreeView() with a gtk.ListStore() model. I don't know until run time how many columns will be needed. I have managed to create the TreeView but I haven't worked out how to populate it. Any help appreciated. Regards Neil. import gtk import

Re: [pygtk] Trouble getting a ListStore with dynamic column number.

2008-01-31 Thread Neil Dugan
Stephen George wrote: Neil Dugan wrote: Hi, I am trying to create a dialog with a gtk.TreeView() with a gtk.ListStore() model. I don't know until run time how many columns will be needed. I have managed to create the TreeView but I haven't worked out how to populate it. Any help

Re: [pygtk] Focus issue with change of notebook page

2007-12-20 Thread Neil Dugan
Tony Nelson wrote: At 3:49 PM +1100 12/20/07, Neil Dugan wrote: ... Haven't tried this exactly, but have you tried putting the grab_focus() call after a small timeout delay ? gobject.timeout_add(500,widget.grab_focus) How long should the timeout be to not have it ever be too short? How

Re: [pygtk] Focus issue with change of notebook page

2007-12-19 Thread Neil Dugan
Gary Jaffe wrote: Hi all -- I have several pygtk apps that each run in its own page of a notebook. The user can load up and run the apps as he/she wishes. I would like to have the widget that has the focus for each page to still have the focus when the user clicks another notebook tab and then

Re: [pygtk] context menus for ListViews

2007-12-05 Thread Neil Dugan
Caleb Marcus wrote: How can I create context menus for ListView elements? The PyGTK Tutorial doesn't go into this, and I can't follow the GtkTreeView tutorial as it's not in Python. This is the code I use to put a context sensitive menu on a listview -- self.listview = listview =

Re: [pygtk] Treeview and sqlite

2007-11-17 Thread Neil Dugan
Marcel Stoop wrote: Hey all, First of all I new to python and reading a lot of documentation, but somehow I can't seem to find good information regarding the question below. I'm trying to develop a python/pygtk application which need to store the data from the treeview in a sqlite db. Anybody

Re: [pygtk] gtk.TextView changing size.

2007-11-08 Thread Neil Dugan
a minimum size isn't already set. On 07/11/2007, Neil Dugan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, When you type in the one of the textview widgets in the app. below the size of the textview changes. I would like to stop this. -- cut - #!/usr/bin/env python import

[pygtk] gtk.TextView changing size.

2007-11-06 Thread Neil Dugan
Hi, When you type in the one of the textview widgets in the app. below the size of the textview changes. I would like to stop this. -- cut - #!/usr/bin/env python import gtk class window(): def __init__(self): window =

[pygtk] accelerator for an image button.

2007-11-02 Thread Neil Dugan
Hi I am new to this list. I am trying to make an python/gtk+ app. One problem I am having is attaching an accelerator to a image button. This is the code I am using to create the buttons. --- cut --- def index_control(self): hbox = gtk.HBox() for stock