[pygtk] python, libglade, GtkXmHTML

[James Henstridge]

On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Martijn Faassen wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> I'm not sure if I'm on the right list here for my question. I've
> been playing with Glade, the python bindings to libglade and to 
> gtk. Actually I just started playing with all of yesterday and I already
> have a mini application working; kudos to everyone involved! Great stuff.
> 
> I ran into one problem with libglade though; I wanted to use
> GtkXmHTML to display simple HTML. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be
> supported by default by Glade, so I can't add it there. I tried two
> approaches:
> 
>   * do a manual .add() of a GtkXmHTML instance to a widget in my 
>     libglade built window.
> 
>     This doesn't seem to do anything. Can't even add buttons or labels
>     this way. Is this due to the use of libglade? It seemed to work in
>     PyGTK proper.

This should work.  If you have some container widget in the glade file you
should be able to add a GtkXmHTML widget.  You did show() the XmHTML
widget, didn't you?

> 
>   * I saw a reference to the CustomWidget (which is in glade). You're
>     supposed to give a build function, and apparently 'gmodule' will
>     be involved. I couldn't figure this out and I didn't find any
>     Python bindings for this anyway, so I ran into a wall here too.

This doesn't currently work currently.  It may in future libglade bindings
though.

> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions for using GtkXmHTML with a libglade-built
> user interface (in Python)?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Martijn

James.

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