Pygtk Tutorial

How to create window in desktop application

This is simplest program or just a starter. This program consist window 200x200 pixel window. When you run it on pygtk environment, then it will open one 200x200 pixel window.

#!/usr/bin/env python

# base.py

import pygtk

pygtk.require('2.0')

import gtk

class Base:

    def __init__(self):

        self.window = gtk.Window(gtk.WINDOW_TOPLEVEL)

        self.window.set_icon_from_file('images/favicon.gif')

       self.window.set_title("Sample window")

        self.window.set_position(gtk.WIN_POS_CENTER)

        self.window.set_size_request(500, 275)

        self.window.set_resizable(False)

        self.window.show()

    def main(self):

        gtk.main()

print __name__

if __name__ == "__main__":

    base = Base()

    base.main()

Window attributes:

• self.window.set_icon_from_file('images/favicon.gif')-It is for window favicon icon.
• self.window.set_title("Sample window")—This is window title.
• self.window.set_position(gtk.WIN_POS_CENTER)-popup window will come in center or according to position.
• self.window.set_size_request(500, 275)—It will open window with size 500x275 pixel.
• self.window.set_resizable(False)-It will disable maximize.
•  set_border_width(10)- It adjust Window width from all the sides.
•  self.window.connect("expose_event", self.expose)- expose event is nothing but hovering means when you keep curser on window, self.expose function will call and self is showing that this function is present in same class and self is just like as class object.
•  __init__()- it is a default constructor which will be call at the time of creating class object.

Thanks guys