python

pygtk + toolbar + toolbutton with custom image

By pcabido in python 1 Comment Tags: , , , , ,

Last night I had more trouble than I was expecting while trying to put a custom image on a toolbar button. I had already done this with tabs, normal buttons and solo. It was easy but for the toolbutton it wasn’t so obvious… maybe it was because of the hour, I don’t know.
So here goes a sample to help any one in need:

# create the pixbuf with the image and it's size.
# 24,24 is the TaskEditor's toolbar icon size
# the path gets the current document path to use with the image
path = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
icon_path = os.path.join(path, "image.png")
pixbuf = gtk.gdk.pixbuf_new_from_file_at_size(icon_path , 24, 24)
 
# create the image and associate the pixbuf
image = gtk.Image()
image.set_from_pixbuf(pixbuf)
image.show()
 
# create the toolbutton
btn = gtk.ToolButton()
btn.set_icon_widget(image)
btn.set_label("Task location")
btn.connect('clicked', self.some_method)
 
# then just add the item (btn) to the position you want
toolbar.insert(btn, position)
btn.show()

That’s all! ;)

Google Summer of Code: Week 3

By pcabido in gnome, gsoc, python 1 Comment Tags: , , , , ,

On week three I accomplished an important part of the project, that was to have by the end of the week a “working prototype” of the plug-in engine. Its not complete but the difficult part and the part where I was (very) confused is done.
Plug-ins are loading and working. Briefly, the system is divided into three parts:

  • The Plugin Manager that handles the GUI for the plug-ins
  • The Plugin Engine that handles the load, initialization, activation, etc for the plug-ins
  • A third part that is the plug-in API (the methods that are allowed for a plug-in to use)

And for the screen shot lovers here are some images of what is done:

Plugin_GUI
Plugin_working

The first screen shot is obvious, it’s the Plug-in Manager GUI and the second screen shot is the features that the plug-ins are implementing. The plug-ins are copys of each other, the each add a menu to the Plug-in menu on the menu bar and by clicking that menu you can see the action on the gnome-terminal and the last two buttons on the ToolBar are also put there by the plug-ins (you can also see the output on the gnome-terminal that resulted by a click on a button). New screen shots or maybe a video next week!

For week 4 I have the intention to finish the plug-in engine, it will be a work in progress but I want to finish all the main parts, and start the geoclue-python module that I will later use with a plug-in in GTG!.

Besides this I will continue my university marathon, here in Portugal the professors seam to wait for each other and set the tasks we have to do all at the same time. I still have 3 exams and 4 assignments to submit during June.