When you use a function as an argument, as in Button(), you use the name of
the function, without the open and close parens. For example:
button.connect("button_release_event", quit_main)
not
button.connect("button_release_event", quit_main())
The type of quit_main() is not a function.
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 04:28 pm, you
wrote:
> Hey,
> New to pygtk and have some questions. In the follwoing code my
> button connections (cancel button) do not work. It will say 2nd argument
> must be callable. Also the dialog made in the second function automatically
> opens (its part of a larger program). I only want the user to see it when
> they press a key combo or hit a menu item. How do I make it only show up
> then? Can anyone suggest pygtk resources for someone new to it? I already
> have been viewing the Tutorial by John Finlay.
>
> Thanks
> John Breen
>
> def quit_main():
> gtk.main_quit()
>
> def quit_dialog():
> window = gtk.Dialog()
> button = gtk.Button(stock='gtk-ok')
> window.action_area.pack_start(button, gtk.TRUE, gtk.TRUE, 10)
> button.show()
>
> button = gtk.Button(stock='gtk-cancel')
> button.connect("button_release_event", quit_main())
> button.show()
>
> window.action_area.pack_end(button, gtk.TRUE, gtk.TRUE, 10)
> label = gtk.Label('Are you sure you want to quit?')
> window.vbox.pack_start(label, gtk.TRUE, gtk.TRUE, 0)
> label.show()
> window.show()
> window.hide()
>
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