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0 Beginner's Tutorial

By following these tutorials you will learn the basics of GUI programming using Gtk+.

If you have never programmed before, or are not familiar with the concepts of object oriented programming, you may need to learn a few basics first. The book Learn Python the Hard Way or The Python Tutorial may be a better place for you to start. You may also be interested in The Python GTK+ 3 Tutorial. Once you master the basics, be sure to come back and check out these tutorials.

To run the code samples

To run the code samples:

  1. Copy and paste the code into filename.py

  2. In the terminal type:

    python filename.py

A path through the widgets

Tutorial

  1. Basic windows

    1. Window

    2. ApplicationWindow

  2. Images and labels

    1. Image

    2. Label

  3. Grid

    1. Grid

  4. Ornaments

    1. Separator

  5. Basic buttons

    1. Button

    2. LinkButton

    3. CheckButton

    4. ToggleButton

    5. Switch

    6. RadioButton

  6. Other display widgets

    1. Statusbar

    2. Spinner

    3. ProgressBar

  7. Entry widgets (with a detour on basic scrolling)

    1. SpinButton

    2. Entry

    3. ScrolledWindow

    4. TextView

    5. Scale

  8. Dialogs

    1. Dialog

    2. AboutDialog

    3. MessageDialog

  9. TreeViews and ComboBoxes (using the M/V/C design)

    1. ComboBox

    2. ComboBox

    3. Simple TreeView with ListStore

    4. Simple Treeview with ListStore

    5. TreeView with TreeStore

    6. TreeView with TreeStore

  10. Menus and toolbars (also: using Glade)

    1. GMenu

    2. Toolbar

    3. Toolbar created using Glade

    4. MenuBar

    5. MenuButton

  11. Selectors (a recap)

    1. ColorButton

    2. FontChooserWidget

    3. FileChooserDialog

  12. Tooltip

    1. Tooltip

  13. More containers

    1. Paned

    2. ButtonBox

  14. More scrolling

    1. "scrollbar.py"

  15. Custom widget

    1. "widget.py"

Exercises