Using Glade to write GUI applications

A few useful links for people who want to learn on how to write GTK applications using Glade

• Python - http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5838951374743244232


• Java - http://people.redhat.com/overholt/nativeeclipse/index.html


• Ruby - http://robrohan.com/2007/05/21/linux-gui-programming-with-ruby/

The video for using Glade with Python is not very clear, so I'll explain a little bit the process below.

1. Build your GUI

2. Open a .py file, and import gtk and gtk.glade

#!/usr/bin/python
import gtk
import gtk.glade

3. define your handlers method

def hander_method(widget):
    do_something_here
    do_more

4. load the glade XML

xml = gtk.glade.XML("/path/to/glade/file")

5. connect handlers to its methods/functions

dict = { 'handler_name' : handler_method,
'handler_name2' : handler_method2
 }

xml.signal_autoconnect(dict)

6. run gtk instance

gtk.main()

I also have written a similar script to the ruby glade template generator in Video 3. It'll generate a very basic Python template for use. ( I couldn't find where to download GladeGen )

pyglade-gentemplate.py

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