Foundations of PyGTK Development: GUI Creation with Python

Description

Learn how to develop portable GUI programs to run on multiple operating systems. Revised and updated from the popular original, with a full set of new examples in Python and using PyGTK, this book provides all the information you'll need to write easy or complex GUI applications, offering one source of knowledge and best practices for user interface creation. Foundations of PyGTK Development presents numerous real-life examples that you can immediately put to use in your own applications. It begins with an overview of key topics such as widget choice, placement, and behavior, before moving on to more advanced issues. Building on your familiarity with Python, the book delves into new topics such as object inheritance early on to allow for a complete understanding of code examples later. What You'll Learn Work with layout containers including boxes, tables, grid, and panes Use the Application and ApplicationWindow classes as the base for your PyGTK application Manage dialogs to give general information, error messages, or warnings to the user Incorporate styles, images, and the clipboard within your applications Who This Book is For Experienced Python programmers or DevOps administrators tasked with developing or maintaining user interfaces. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxiv Getting Started (W. David Ashley, Andrew Krause)....Pages 1-4 The Application and ApplicationWindow Classes (W. David Ashley, Andrew Krause)....Pages 5-16 Some Simple GTK+ Applications (W. David Ashley, Andrew Krause)....Pages 17-37 Containers (W. David Ashley, Andrew Krause)....Pages 39-70 Basic Widgets (W. David Ashley, Andrew Krause)....Pages 71-105 Dialogs (W. David Ashley, Andrew Krause)....Pages 107-158 Python and GTK+ (W. David Ashley, Andrew Krause)....Pages 159-173 Text View Widget (W. David Ashley, Andrew Krause)....Pages 175-217 Tree View Widget (W. David Ashley, Andrew Krause)....Pages 219-274 Menus and Toolbars (W. David Ashley, Andrew Krause)....Pages 275-315 Dynamic User Interfaces (W. David Ashley, Andrew Krause)....Pages 317-344 Custom Widgets (W. David Ashley, Andrew Krause)....Pages 345-361 More GTK Widgets (W. David Ashley, Andrew Krause)....Pages 363-401 Integrating Everything (W. David Ashley, Andrew Krause)....Pages 403-411 Back Matter ....Pages 413-563