[maemo-developers] New project idea, pygtk questions, and a toolkit

[From: Xan Lopez]

On 2/19/07, Sean Luke <sean at cs.gmu.edu> wrote:
> Thanks, and I do appreciate your response.  Further replies:
>

You're welcome :)

> On Feb 19, 2007, at 1:17 PM, Xan Lopez wrote:
>
> > On 2/19/07, Sean Luke <sean at cs.gmu.edu> wrote:
> >> - Why is there any distinction between events and signals?
> >
> > http://www.gtk.org/faq/#AEN556
>
> So... from what I gather here, the ONLY relevant difference is that
> they come from different sources?  Since that's largely immaterial,
> what would possess the GTK designers to require developers to
> distinguish between them?  Argh.
>

Well, I think the idea is that GTK+ passes the events coming from X to
the GtkWidgets as signals so you as a developer don't have to think
too hard about their differences. Maybe it could have been done in a
different, cleaner way? Could be, I don't consider myself skilled
enough to have a relevant opinion on this :)

>
> >> - There appears to be no hook for gtk.Paned to detect when the user
> >> is moving / has moved the divider bar.  This would seem to me to be
> >> the single most important hook.  The only option I've found online is
> >> to override the size change hook  Am I missing something?
> >>
> >
> > The widget has a "position" property. You could ask to be notified
> > when that value changes?
>
> How is this done?  By subclassing and overriding the attribute?  Or
> is there a mechanism to tie into notifications?

Something like g_signal_connect (paned, "notify::position",
your_callback, your_data) will do the trick.

That's a shotcut for connecting to "notify" and checking in the
callback if the name of the property changed is "position".

>
> >> - How do I move the text in a gtk.Frame vertically?   It's set too
> >> close to the frame and descenders (g,q,p,y,j) collide with the frame
> >> border in an ugly fashion.
> >
> > If you want to control the vertical position of the GtkFrame title
> > with respect to the frame you want to use the label-yalign property.
>
> I recall seeing somewhere (perhaps in the tutorial) that label-yalign
> is broken.  :-(  And it seemed to do nothing when I tried it.

It works here, what problems are you getting?

>
> Sean
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