Is Perl a good option for writing (possibly and partially) platform independent desktop applications? I know there are interesting widget libraries like GTK2 Perl and wxWidgets but I'm not familiar with development on Windows. Is it possible to write a good application with Perl and those tools, maybe embedding everything needed to avoi...
Excuse my ignorance here but I know neither C++ nor GTK+. Which String type is used when setting Strings in GTK+ widgets? In .NET, Strings passed to a control are obviously .NET System.String. In Cocoa, Strings passed to a control are NSString. But I understand C++ does not have a standardized String type (but indeed several, depending...
If I make a Statusbar, and PackEnd a Label to it, it looks something like this: The Shadow disappears over the Label, but remains over the rest of the Statusbar. I want to remove the Shadow from the entire Statusbar. The PyGTK documentation mentions a property called shadow-type, but it's readonly, and nowhere to be found in GTK#. How...
I'm making a trivial text editor (as an exercise) in GTK using Glade, GtkBuilder, and C. I have an edit menu with Cut, Copy, and Paste as well as a GtkTextView for the text. GtkTextView automatically binds the cut/copy/paste sequences for itself (and even provides menu items if you right click). I want to connect the Cut, Copy, and Pa...
Can you please tell me if there is any example for using GIO Server Socket (the one which I can open a port and listen on socket requests)? I would like to use it to 'remote-control' my GTK+ application. ...
I am looking for a way to lock the window. I found window.set_resizable(False), but that resizes the window to its requested size and then locks it. I would like to be able to resize my window, and then lock it into the size I have resized it to. ...
Hi, on Ubuntu 8/9, i'm trying to write a daemon in python, that monitors a certain network condition and informs the user using a gtk.messagedialog. I installed this script using rc-update. The daemon starts at boot, but doesn't show the dialog even after I login. I assume because init.d starts my daemon at tty1 and no gnome is availabl...
I'm currently writing a screen capture app for Windows and Linux using PyGTK, and I've hit a slight problem with displaying notifications. On Linux, I've been using the libnotify bindings to provide notifications, which has been working very well; however, this has no equivalent on Windows. I'd use the Win32 APIs directly to display the...
I am attempting to send a signal out over the session message bus. I am able to call methods fine using d-feet dbus debugger with no problem. Unfortunately d-feet does not allow you to connect to signals to debug those. In replacement I am using dbus-monitor "type='signal'" to see if anything is sent. So far this works except for anythin...
Hi I have a glade gui, and I want to insert another object using a glade file as well. When I do it as bellow (this is essentially what I am doing) the whole app hangs and the self.show() and maxes out the CPU at 100%. If I replace the first line of one's init() with self.builder = gtk.Builder() then the app runs, I can set widgets,...
I have a application written in PyGtk. I need to convert a particular line number into its corresponding window co-ordinates in a GtkTextView. How can this be done? ...
Possible Duplicate: What is the arrow operator (->) synonym for in C++? I couldn't find documentation on the "->" which is used a lot in Gnome codebase. For example in gedit they have this: loader->document = g_value_get_object (value) What is document in relation to loader? There are many other examples as well with more bas...
I have a PyGTK program which is hidden most of the time, but with a keypress it shall come up as a popup. Therefore I want the program not to be activated when its opened. I tried several options to to that, with no success: self.window.show() self.window.set_focus(None) Activates the program, but sets no focus. self.wi...
I've got key-press-event handler and i need to determine which kind of key was pressed: modifier or not? It's not in event.state, because this field works only when modifier was pressed with something else, but i need this for single key (i.e. simply pressing control or alt, ...). ...
Using Python and PyGTK I've got a GtkMenu with various GtkCheckMenuItems in it. When the user clicks one of the checkboxes the menu closes. I'd like for the user to be able to check a series of checkboxes without the menu closing each time. I've looked at using the activate callback to show the menu but this doesn't seem to work. Any ...
Hi I'm making an app using GTKMM. The screenshot is below: Screenshot The Problem is, I'm not able to position the "My Label" to align at the top, just below the Search box. I'm packing Name,Search box, Search Button into a HBox, which is packed into a VBox, and then MyLabel is packed into the VBox. I think the problem is that the V...
Hi, Is it possible to skin the GTK+ progress bar widget such that it shows a custom image (an AJAX style animated gif maybe)? If so how and if not, is there any other option/control which can achieve this effect? ...
Hi I'm trying to show an error mesaage using a dialogbox. However when I run the code I get segmentation fault. Here's the function: void ShowErrorMessage(string message) { Gtk::MessageDialog dialog(message,true,Gtk::MESSAGE_ERROR,Gtk::BUTTONS_CLOSE,true); dialog.run(); } I try to open a file, if the file can not be open I wanna ...
... Just like the ShowInTaskBar property of a WinForms form. ...
I have 6 Buttons, labeled "_0" through "_5". I would like for each button to be pressed when the user presses the corresponding number key. Right now, they must press Alt + the corresponding number key. I can sort of work around this by giving each button an Accelerator, but it's not quite the same thing. With accelerators, as soon as t...