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1. General information and availability

• 1.1. What is PyGTK?
• 1.2. Where can I get PyGTK?
• 1.3. How do I get the very latest PyGTK source code [from SVN]
• 1.4. What is the password to change and add FAQ entries?
• 1.5. How do I get support for PyGTK [mailing lists, IRC]?
• 1.6. Eeek, I found a bug in PyGTK. Where do I report it?
• 1.7. Where are the reference manuals?
• 1.8. I need PyGTK/libglade compiled for [insert Unix OS here]!
• 1.9. Are there any PyGTK tutorials available?
• 1.10. I have multiple copies of python but pygtk only works with one of them!
• 1.11. How do I extend PyGTK (or the art of wrapping)
• 1.12. Where can I find the API documentation ?
• 1.13. Where can I get gnome-python?
• 1.14. How do I compile pygtk or gnome-python from SVN?
• 1.15. How do I tell what version of PyGTK I'm running?
• 1.16. I wrote a patch for PyGTK that fixes bug X, or implements feature Y, what do I do?
• 1.17. How do I search Bugzilla for PyGTK bugs
• 1.18. My programs configure says: No package 'pygtk-2.0' found
• 1.19. Is there a PyGTK for MacOS X?
• 1.20. Can I use PyGTK to build closed-source applications?
• 1.21. Does PyGTK have timers?

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2. Changes from 1.2 to 1.3/2.0

• 2.1. How do I install PyGTK-2 and PyGTK-0 side by side in the same system?
• 2.2. What are the major changes in PyGTK-2 for GTK+ 2.2?
• 2.3. Is there a checklist of changes to migrate an application from PyGTK-0 to PyGTK-2?
• 2.4. If I installed PyGTK-0 and PyGTK-2 in parallel (using pygtk.pth) how do I indicate which one my script should use?
• 2.5. Which versions of PyGTK support parallel install using the pygtk.pth method?
• 2.6. FAQ 2.4 sucks and doesn't work. Truthfuly, how do I require a specific version of PyGTK (or When do I need to use pygtk.require())?
• 2.7. What happened to the GTK and GDK constants/symbols?
• 2.8. For some users import libglade (or GDK) is working and for some users it's not
• 2.9. FAQ 2.4, 2.6 and etc etc all suck. Python still doesn't find the version of pygtk I want.
• 2.10. How do I get my 1.2 gladefiles to work with 2.0?

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3. Signal handling

• 3.1. When I connect to a signal, my handler gets called but reports "XXX takes no arguments (1 given)"
• 3.2. How do I detect that a mouse or keyboard event has been triggered?
• 3.3. I connected to some signals but nothing happens. Why?
• 3.4. I've fiddled with the mask but nothing happened. Why?
• 3.5. Which widgets are unable to receive events or be styled?
• 3.6. I attach a callback to a signal, but I keep getting an error: "TypeError: object of type X is not callable"
• 3.7. While my callback is executing, nothing is refreshed in the application windows!
• 3.8. I want my callback to execute, but not the default callback (or, how to I stop GTK from doing the default action when doing X)?
• 3.9. When creating a new signal, how do I define one of the signal arguments as Python data?
• 3.10. How do I specify user data to a signal?
• 3.11. How do signals and events propagate in GTK+?
• 3.12. Why does handling expose events break drag-n-drop?
• 3.13. How do I pass extra data to a signal handler?
• 3.14. How to construct my own "fake" gtk.gdk.Event?

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4. Themes, fonts and styles

• 4.1. How do I change font properties on gtk.Labels and other widgets?
• 4.2. Why don't my style changes apply only to the widget I requested it from?
• 4.3. My user defined styles get overridden by the default theme!
• 4.4. How do I change the background color of my application's dialog?
• 4.5. How do I use the style object?
• 4.6. How do I change the colour of a widget (or how do I get a GdkColor)?
• 4.7. How do I get a Graphics Context, or GdkGC?
• 4.8. How does the alloc() method to the GdkColormap work?
• 4.9. How do I use pango instead of GdkFont for font handling in a GtkDrawingArea?
• 4.10. How can I use Unicode (or other format) strings in my PyGTK application, or, why do I get a UTF-8 warning when using a string?
• 4.11. How can I create a new pango context()
• 4.12. How do I get antialiased fonts in GTK+?
• 4.13. Does PyGTK support TrueType fonts?
• 4.14. What units does pango use to define sizes and widths?
• 4.15. Can I find out how long (wide) a string is in a certain font?
• 4.16. How do I change the background and colour of an Editable (GtkEntry, GtkTextView and friends)?
• 4.17. Why does FontSelection's set_font_name return False?
• 4.18. How do I change GtkMenubar.shadow_type (or other style properties)?
• 4.19. Can I pass strings of unicode instance to gtk or do I need to convert them to utf8?

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5. Basic Objects: GObject, GtkWidget and other critters

• 5.1. I want to understand this "data" object that is used in the set_*_data() and get_*_data() calls.
• 5.2. How do I check if a widget is currently sensitive?
• 5.3. Where is get_state() in PyGTK 0.6.x?
• 5.4. How do I catch right-click, middle-click and double-click on my widget?
• 5.5. How do I capture keypresses, and how do I perform a certain action depending on the key pressed?
• 5.6. How do I change the cursor for a certain widget?
• 5.7. How can I tell my program that the cursor should jump to a specific widget?
• 5.8. What signal is triggered when I change a widget's sensitivity?
• 5.9. How do I find out the size of a widget?
• 5.10. How do I focus a widget? How do I focus it before its toplevel window is shown?
• 5.11. My callback is getting a gtk.gdk.Event object, but I need an EventExpose!
• 5.12. How do I check if a widget is mapped? And realized? And visible? [...]
• 5.13. While calling get_property(), I get an "invalid property id" warning. Why?
• 5.14. How can I discover what properties and signals a GObject supports?
• 5.15. How do I access one of these properties in a GObject?
• 5.16. What's the difference between a property and an attribute?
• 5.17. Do I need to handle reference counting for GObjects? What about for other objects in PyGTK/gnome-python?
• 5.18. Focusing a widget after when selecting an item from Treeview
• 5.19. How can I listen to events from the scroll wheel on my mouse?
• 5.20. How do I move focus between widgets?

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6. Widget subclasses and user signals: GObject

• 6.1. What is the canonical reference on widget (and GObject) subclassing and property overriding?
• 6.2. When subclassing a widget (or a GObject), why are the additional signals I define not usable?
• 6.3. How do I wrap a GObject in Python?
• 6.4. How can I draw on top of a subclassed widget?
• 23.33. Using metaclasses in GObject subclasses.

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7. Labels: GtkLabel

• 7.1. How can I use mnemonics for my GtkLabel?
• 7.2. Where is GtkLabel.get_text()?
• 7.3. How do I make a GtkLabel font larger or bold?
• 7.4. How do I left, center, right, top, bottom, middle align a GtkLabel?
• 7.5. How do I change a Label's background color, or why doesn't my Label receive any signals?
• 7.6. How do I render a label in a button or menuitem with an underscore in its label?
• 7.7. I set my labels to use_markup in glade-2. Why don't they markup the contents I set?
• 7.8. How can I change the appearance of a label without using pango markup?

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8. Images: GtkImage, GtkPixmap, GdkPixbuf

• 8.1. How do I load an image from a filename into my application UI?
• 8.2. What about loading other image formats besides XPM, like JPEG or PNG?
• 8.3. How do I convert a Numeric array to a Pixbuf object?
• 8.4. Is there a resource leak? Why do I run out of memory using Pixbuf?
• 8.5. How do I to display an image from data (using a drawable or Image widget)?
• 8.6. How do I resize a gtk.Image?
• 8.7. What if I want to add a PIL image to a drawable?
• 8.8. Does somebody know what all these image/pixmap classes are?
• 8.9. How do I flip an image horizontally or vertically?
• 8.10. Is it possible to use SVG icons and images in PyGTK?
• 8.11. How do I get a Pixbuf of a stock icon?
• 8.12. How do I register stock icons from an image file?
• 8.13. How can I use an image as background in a gtk.Window?
• 8.14. How do I convert a pixbuf to a PIL Image?
• 8.15. How can I get the data of a gtk.Image and save it in an external file?
• 8.16. How to show data that I already own from outside, in a gtk.Image?
• 8.17. How to make a colorful image grayscale without using PIL?
• 8.18. How blend (composite) two images together?
• 8.19. How can I make a stock icon the default icon?

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9. Buttons: GtkButtons

• 9.1. How does one group radio buttons to allow only one concurrent button to be depressed?
• 9.2. How do I create buttons that contain a pixmap?
• 9.3. PyGTK 0.6.x: The stock pixmap buttons in glade, but they don't show in my buttons? (pygtk0.x)
• 9.4. Why is a handler connected to a GtkRadioButton being called twice?
• 9.5. How do I render a stock button with a different label?
• 9.6. How do I add tooltips to a ToolButton in a Toolbar?
• 9.7. How do I add a stock icon to a ToggleButton?

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10. Windows: GtkWindows and GtkDialogs

• 10.1. How do I get a GdkWindow from a GtkWindow?
• 10.2. Where are GtkDialogFlags defined?
• 10.3. How do I get my windows to show up where I want?
• 10.4. How do I make a dialog block the whole application, so the user is forced to answer it?
• 10.5. I click on the close button (X) to close my gtk.Window. It disappears, but the program seems to hang!
• 10.6. How do I avoid having my gtk.Window instance destroyed when I click on the window's close button? (or, When I redisplay my window, all my child widgets are missing and I get a bunch of Gtk-Critical errors!)
• 10.7. How do I change the window manager's icon for a PyGTK Window?
• 10.8. How do I get the GtkWindow's title?
• 10.9. How do I change the buttons on a MessageDialog?
• 10.10. How do I adjust a ScrolledWindow to adjust to a given child widget?
• 10.11. How do GtkDialogs work?
• 10.12. How do I make ENTER in an entry box activate the OK signal
• 10.13. When closing the GnomeAbout box (or other GtkDialog subclasses), I get crashes and weird callback behaviour. What up with that?
• 10.14. I created a modal dialog, but clicking on the main window covers it!
• 10.15. How do I get the position of my window in absolute terms (IOW, relative to the root X window)
• 10.16. How do I start up a window maximized?
• 10.17. How do I run a dialog without running another main loop?
• 10.18. Changing a Window's background color
• 10.19. How do I get XID for a GtkWindow? And for the root window?
• 10.20. How can I make my window appear in the center of the screen?
• 10.21. How to hide a window when clicking the close button (instead of destroying it)
• 10.22. How can I find out when my GtkWindow is minimized?
• 10.23. How can I find out if a gtk.Window is visible?
• 10.24. How do I create a shaped window?
• 10.25. How do I raise a window that is minimized or covered?
• 10.26. Creating dialogs using the Glade file
• 10.27. How can I focus an external window?

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11. Menus: Gtk*Menu and Gtk*MenuItem GtkToolbar

• 11.1. How do I turn off tearoff menus in libglade?
• 11.2. How do I pop up a menu with a button click?
• 11.3. How do I find out if a GtkCheckMenuItem is selected (active)?
• 11.4. I create a menubar with ItemFactory, but it disappears
• 11.5. When specifying items to an ItemFactory, I pass the extra argument for the image but I can't see anything!
• 11.6. How do I specify and save accelerators for my menu?
• 11.7. How to i put a custom icon and custom label in a gtk.ImageMenuItem
• 11.8. How can I make the label for an action created using ui_manager appear beside rather than below the icon?
• 11.9. How can I insert space in a toolbar created with ui_manager to spread out groups of action buttons?
• 11.10. How can I display the tooltip of the currently selected menuitem in a statusbar?

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12. Simple Containers: GtkBoxes, GtkTable, GtkFixed, GtkAlignment

• 12.1. What are the parameters to GtkAlignment.set()
• 12.2. How does packing work (or how do I get my widget to stay the size I want)

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13. Lists and Trees: GtkList/TreeView

• 13.1. Is there a nice tutorial on using GtkTreeView and GtkTreeModel?
• 13.2. How do the TreeStore and ListStore sequence APIs behave? [PyGTK2]
• 13.3. How do GtkTreePaths work? [PyGTK2]
• 13.4. How do I define columns for a TreeView using TreeViewColumn?
• 13.5. How do I create my own custom TreeModel.
• 13.6. How do I put icons in a TreeView?
• 13.7. How do I get all the selections in my TreeView.
• 13.8. How do I delete the selected rows in a TreeView?
• 13.9. Is there a way to mass-specify columns in ListStore?
• 13.10. How do I make a GtkTreeView with editable cells?
• 13.11. What signal is emitted when a user selects/clicks on a row in a GtkTreeView?
• 13.12. How do I change the color of the alternate row shading on the TreeView widget?
• 13.13. How do I create a lazy TreeView?
• 13.14. How do I show different images when a TreeView item is expanded and collapsed.
• 13.15. My TreeView/TreeModel rows represent instances (or any python object), but how can I keep track of them?
• 13.16. My Treeview shows all my strings/text values as numbers in the columns!
• 13.17. How do I make a popup menu appear when I right-click my TreeView?
• 13.18. Is it possible for a TreeModel to tell a CellRendererToggle that it is in an "in between" (inconsistent) state?
• 13.19. How do I change alignment on a specific cell renderer?
• 13.20. How do I keep GenericTreeModel from leaking references?
• 13.21. How do I get changes in my TreeModel to show up in my TreeView?
• 13.22. How do I display a combo box in a Treeview?
• 13.23. Why doesn't expand_row() display an expanded row for paths longer than one element?
• 13.24. How do I transform the value in my model before displaying it in the TreeView?
• 13.25. How do I delete multiple selections?
• 13.26. How do I perform an action when the user clicks on the title column of a TreeView?
• 13.27. How do I run a command for each TreeModel row, or how does TreeModel.foreach() work?
• 13.28. When connecting to 'row-inserted', my model value is always None. Why?
• 13.29. How do I use a python object to store data for all the columns in a row?
• 13.30. How do I move rows around in a GtkTreeView?
• 13.31. How do I change the color of a row or column of a TreeView?
• 13.32. How do I select [or edit] a row in my TreeView?
• 13.33. How do I handle DnD operations in a GtkTreeView?
• 13.34. How do I work with the reorderable() property of GtkTreeview?/The reorderable() property of GtkTreeView is too limited
• 13.35. How do I use the TreeModelFilter to process tree/store data automatically?
• 13.36. How do I unselect a path in a TreeView?
• 13.37. How do I avoid displaying (hide) a certain column in a TreeView?
• 13.38. How do I display pixbufs instead of numbers for integer or boolean values in my treemodel?
• 13.39. I defined a TreeView in glade, how do I manipulate its columns and other properties?
• 13.40. How do I change the font of a CellRendererText?
• 13.41. How do I show a GtkImage (even animations) in a treeview? (subclassing GtkCellRenderer)
• 13.42. How do I show a picture (image) in a treeview background or exist any way how to set treeview (and window with treeview) as transparency ?
• 13.43. Are there tips for improving performance when adding many rows to a Treeview?
• 13.44. What is TreeRowReference and how to use it?
• 13.45. How do I create a custom gtk.CellRenderer?
• 13.46. How do I add a tooltip to a cell, row or column of a TreeView
• 13.47. How do I create a GtkTreeView having nodes with underlined text?
• 13.48. How do I hide some rows in a TreeView?
• 13.49. How to manually sort rows?
• 13.50. Target sensitive tooltip for treeview/iconview.

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14. Editables: GtkEntry, GtkCombo, GtkText, GtkSpinButton, GtkTextView

• 14.1. How do I make a GtkEntry exactly 5 characters long?
• 14.2. What is a GtkTextIter, and how do I get one for position X (and other positions)?
• 14.3. How do I change the cursor for a GtkEntry?
• 14.4. Why does GtkText's insert_text generate critical messages complaining "assertion `index <= TEXT_LENGTH (text)' failed."?
• 14.5. I want to change the text being typed into an entry or textbox, but the original text is also inserted!
• 14.6. Why does the second parameter to insert_text (the `text' parameter) contain garbage?
• 14.7. Why isn't GtkText.insert_defaults() generating the signal insert_text
• 14.8. How do I get the currently selected text in a GtkCombo?
• 14.9. How do I programatically set the max value for a GtkSpinButton?
• 14.10. How do I scroll a TextView to display the text being inserted?
• 14.11. How do I insert colored text into a TextView?
• 14.12. How can I make GtkTextView to always show the last line
• 14.13. How do I add items into GtkCombo
• 14.14. How can get back the strings that I set using Combo.set_popdown_strings()
• 14.15. How do I change the mouse cursor on a TextView (or how do I get the "right" GdkWindow from a TextView)?
• 14.16. Is there a signal sent when a user hits enter in an editable?
• 14.17. What X clipboard do TextView's context menu items use?
• 14.18. How do I get the clipboard functions to work properly?
• 14.19. I'm getting a Gtk-CRITICAL messsage: assertion `g_utf8_validate (text, len, NULL)' failed [using insert_*]
• 14.20. How do I write clipboard callbacks for multiple widgets?
• 14.21. How do I right-align text in an Entry?
• 14.22. How do I create a mask or validator for a GtkEntry?
• 14.23. How do I send the output of an external process to a gtk.TextView without freezing the GUI?
• 14.24. How do I add completion support for an entry?
• 14.25. How can I place a background image on a TextView widget?
• 14.26. The text in the TextView is not aligned! Any ideas?
• 14.27. How do I prevent unselected gtk.Entry from being highlighted after losing focus?

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16. GtkOptionMenu, GtkComboBox, GtkComboBoxEntry

• 16.1. Why doesn't the GtkOptionMenu work like a real listbox?
• 16.2. Let's say I accept it as it is. How do I implement one using pygtk?
• 16.3. If I set the OptionMenu's state to insensitive, and i call set_history() on it, and put it back to sensitive, the previously selected menuitem still looks insensitive!
• 16.4. How do I find out which is the selected item in a GtkOptionMenu?
• 16.5. What signal is emitted when an optionmenu's item is selected?
• 16.6. How do I get the label of an OptionMenu's item?
• 16.7. How do I get the text from the selected item in GtkComboBox/ComboBoxEntry
• 16.8. How do I populate a ComboBox or ComboBoxEntry with strings?

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17. GtkNoteBook

• 17.1. How do I get a reference to the page my GtkNotebook just switched to (or, what is the deal with the second argument to GtkNotebook's switch_page handler)?
• 17.2. How do I make one toolbar button (e.g. an Add button) call a different function for each notebook tab?
• 17.3. How do I create a popup menu on a notebook tab and figure out which tab a click comes from

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18. GtkDrawingArea

• 18.1. How do I make a gray-scale gradient picture?
• 18.2. When I place a DrawingArea inside a ScrolledWindow the event object in callbacks has X and Y coordinates off by a few pixels!
• 18.3. How do I set line attributes for draw_line() and draw_lines()?
• 18.4. How do I draw dashed or dotted lines in a GtkDrawingArea?
• 18.5. What's the essential approach to tracking mouse events in a GtkDrawingArea?
• 18.6. How do I get scrollbars to work with a DrawingArea?
• 18.7. How do I make my DrawingArea have the same background used in other widgets?
• 18.8. What basic pattern should I follow when using a DrawingArea?
• 18.9. How to set a tiled background pixmap on gnomecanvas.Canvas? Or, how do set custom background on gnomecanvas.Canvas?

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19. Other widgets

• 19.1. Are there any HTML rendering widgets for PyGTK?
• 19.2. What about HTML widgets for PyGTK2?
• 19.3. GnomeIconList's get_icon_data() method doesn't work!
• 19.4. Can I do plots or charts with PyGTK?
• 19.5. How do I get the current color from a gnome ColorPicker?
• 19.6. Is there a syntax highlighting widget for PyGTK?
• 19.7. When displaying a GnomeAbout box, it doesn't display the program name or version.
• 19.8. How do I pass extra arguments to a Gnome Applet's setup_menu() callback?
• 19.9. In creating a Gnome Applet, how do I use class members for callbacks?
• 19.10. How do I hide the toolbar of a gnome.ui.App() instance?
• 19.11. Can I use OpenGL to draw in a PyGTK application?
• 19.12. Is there support for tray notification area clients?
• 19.13. How do I a signal a callback when a gtk.Paned widget handle is dragged?
• 19.14. Is there a grid or spreadsheet-like widget available?
• 19.15. How do I embed something using Plugs and Sockets?
• 19.16. How can I use the IconView widget?
• 19.17. How can I distribute gtkhtml2 (outside of gnomepythonextras)?
• 19.18. Why does gtkmozembed somtimes crash in load_url()?
• 19.19. How can I change the background color of the IconView widget?

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20. The GTK Mainloop and Threading

• 20.1. What are the general tips for using threads with PyGTK?
• 20.2. On Win32, the input_add() function doesn't work!
• 20.3. How can I make Ctrl-C in the console quit my app which uses PyGTK 1.99.13 or older?
• 20.4. I get random crashing when using lots of threads in PyGTK
• 20.5. I want to show a splash screen and make it disappear. How?
• 20.6. I am using a separate thread to run my code, but the application (or the UI) hangs.
• 20.7. I set up a timeout handler using timeout_add, but the handler only runs once.
• 20.8. How do I check if threading was compiled in my version of PyGTK
• 20.9. I don't want to use threading. What other options do I have?
• 20.10. When an exception is raised, it is printed out to standard error! (or how do I get exceptions to be printed to X or displayed in a window?)
• 20.11. How can I monitor sockets or files inside the gtk mainloop (or how does gtk.input_add() work)?
• 20.12. How do I get an action to run periodically, say, every 30 seconds?
• 20.13. The GTK thread dies, but some windows remain open. I don't want that, what can I do?
• 20.14. My application uses threads and GtkDialogs seem to freeze it! What can I do?
• 20.15. I'm using threads and timeout or idle or input handlers and the app freezes. What's wrong?
• 20.16. So how do I use gobject.io_add_watch (used to be input_add) ?
• 20.17. Why isn't my thread running?
• 20.18. How do I write a qt application using gobject.MainLoop?
• 20.19. What does "Fatal Python error: GC object already tracked" mean?
• 20.20. gobject.io_add_watch doesn't work with non-blocking sockets on win32!

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21. Win32 and PyGTK

• 21.1. How do I get PyGTK running on MS Windows?
• 21.2. Is there a walkthrough on getting PyGTK2 and libglade2 to work on win32
• 21.3. Does the Win32 port support threading?
• 21.4. Where is GdkImlib for MS Windows?
• 21.5. How can I bundle a PyGTK program in windows so my users don't need to install Python or the GTK+ libs?
• 21.6. How do I change the Window icon of a Win32 PyGTK app?
• 21.7. How do I make the my PyGTK app look a bit more like a `normal' Windows app?
• 21.8. How do I compile PyGTK for win32
• 21.9. How do I find out the GTK+ installation path on windows?
• 21.10. DLL Errors after upgrading to PyGTK-2.0.0.win32-py2.3
• 21.11. Is it possible to have antialiased fonts on Win32?
• 21.12. How do themes work on win32?
• 21.13. Can PyGTK have the native filechooser of Windows?

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22. libglade

• 22.1. How do I use PyGTK and glade together (using libglade)?
• 22.2. How do I internationalize a PyGTK and libglade program?
• 22.3. Why doesn't gettext work on my libglade UIs with Python <= 2.2?
• 22.4. I'm using libglade, but what do I do with the signals and handlers I set in the glade file?
• 22.5. I'm using Gnome and libglade, but some widgets don't work properly.
• 22.6. When I invoke GladeXML() or glade.XML() all the widgets in my gladefile are displayed!
• 22.7. How do I create and use a custom Glade widget?
• 22.8. How do I retrieve the ID of a signal connection made by signal_autoconnect?
• 22.9. My libglade files have widgets that don't show up in the GladeXML tree!
• 22.10. When I load a glade file in GladeXML I get evil warnings about GnomeApp and a crash!
• 22.11. How do I produce or reuse a [portion of a] widget tree in glade?
• 22.12. How can I get a new instance of a widget defined in a glade file?
• 22.13. Tabs in Notebook don't show up!

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23. Miscellaneous questions

• 23.1. Why does ancient PyGTK versions segfault with Python 2.2?
• 23.2. Are there any helpful tools when developing with PyGTK?
• 23.3. How do I find out the current X and Y position of my mouse?
• 23.4. Are there any tips for UI designers?
• 23.5. Why does my X selection disappear when my window dies?
• 23.6. When compiling PyGTK, I get a bunch of weird "Could not write method ..." messages!
• 23.7. Is there a way to get version information from pygtk?
• 23.8. How do I beep the speaker?
• 23.9. Is there a way to grab the keyboard from X (like XGrabKey())?
• 23.10. When wrapping a widget into a new Python extension, I get undefined symbols on importing it!
• 23.11. Does VTK support PyGTK?
• 23.12. How do I create a GdkRectangle?
• 23.13. When I create a gnome Druid, the first and last page are blank.
• 23.14. I disable text or graphics on my GtkToolbar, or the time in my GnomeDateTime, and they still show up, or, why is show_all() considered harmful?
• 23.15. I'm writing a C extension that uses PyGTK. How do I acess a PyGTK object's C counterparts and vice-versa?
• 23.16. How do I change the font and colour of some GnomePrint text?
• 23.17. Is there a way to query for the current screen size?
• 23.18. When dragging and dropping, Netscape/Firefox/etc and gedit/native gtk apps don't behave the same. Why?
• 23.19. What do you see as the flaws in the Minimalist Programme?
• 23.20. How do I update a progress bar and do some work at the same time
• 23.21. How can I package my gnome-python application using autotools?
• 23.22. How can I extend PyGTK using gtkmm/C++ ?
• 23.23. How do I debug a PyGTK application without an interactive session?
• 23.24. Can GTK know the mouse position outside of GTK Application?
• 23.25. Is widget.set_property('visible', False) the same as widget.hide() ?
• 23.26. How do I change window properties involving atom values?
• 23.27. How do I port a GObject/Glib based C application to PyGTK?
• 23.28. How can I distribute gtkspell, trayicon (eg. modules that do not depend on gnome) so my application will take advantage of those but the user won't have to install gnome-python-extras?
• 23.29. How do I configure emacs to be used with pygtk?
• 23.30. Q_() is not available in my pygtk app. How to use Qualified translatable strings?
• 23.31. How to get the path to the file(s)/folder(s) that was dropped (by drag 'n' drop) in my application? [using selection.data]
• 23.32. How to get coordinates relative to X11 for a widget that has no window of it's own?
• 23.34. How can I use gtk.binding_entry_add (and why it's better than keypress in most cases)
• 23.35. How can you set the tab / tabbing order?
• 23.36. How do I acquire a screenshot of the whole screen?
• 23.37. How do I create a throbber like the one in Firefox?
• 23.38. How can I access data returned with a gpointer?
• 23.39. How do I acquire a screenshot of the active window?
• 23.40. Is g_utf8_collate and g_utf8_collate_key available in PyGTK?
• 23.41. How can I create a GObject from a memory address?
• 23.42. How can integrate PyGTK with SDL / pygame ?
• 23.43. IDEs and editors with code completion support for PyGTK
• 23.44. How can I embed a Jython application in PyGTK?

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24. Deprecated List Widgets: GtkList, GtkCList, GtkCTree and others

• 24.1. My GtkCList rows represent instances, but how can I keep track of them?
• 24.2. Why doesn't GtkCList's children() method return the lists rows?
• 24.3. How do I access data that is in a GtkCList?
• 24.4. How do I order the contents of a GtkCList according to the type of data in the columns (or, where is gtk_clist_set_compare_func)?
• 24.5. How do I get the data out of a GtkCTree?
• 24.6. How would I recurse through all nodes in a GtkCTree?
• 24.7. How do I capture a right-click or double-click event on a GtkCList row?
• 24.8. How do I find a row in a GtkCList that contains "X"?
• 24.9. When entering data dynamically into my GtkCList or tree, it flickers like mad!
• 24.10. How do I align a GtkCList's columns?
• 24.11. How do I remove a row from a CList?
• 24.12. How do I find out which row(s) are selected in the GtkCList?
• 24.13. How do I colour the background of a GtkCList row?
• 24.14. How do I find out what the current selection mode in the GtkCList is?
• 24.15. How do I change the style of the white space between CList rows?

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