[Glade-users] GUI project with Glade --- feasibility?

[tristanvb at openismus.com (Tristan Van Berkom)]

On Wed, 2013-10-30 at 17:48 +0100, Tristan Van Berkom wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-10-30 at 16:31 +0100, Virgil Stokes wrote:
> > I have been using Python 2.7 for sometime now and it has become my
> > favorite programming language. However, I have very little experience
> > with using Python to create GUI applications for Windows. It seems
> > that Glade might simplify this type of project.
> >
> > More specifically I have Python 2.7.5 installed on a Windows Vista
> > (32-bit) platform. I have been working on the design of a GUI project
> > in which on the top menu there will be a help entry (at the right most
> > position) with a drop down submenu that will contain a help item. If
> > this is clicked on with the left mouse button of a mouse then an HTML
> > file (one that contains help information for the user of the GUI) will
> > be displayed. It is important that this HTML file is displayed in a
> > separate form (or window) and does not need an online connection to a
> > web browser (e.g. FireFox). This displayed, read only HTML, will
> > contain local links, embedded images and videos, etc. It should be
> > treated as if it were being displayed by a web browser (e.g. the user
> > should be able to move to different topics, scroll, view a video,
> > etc.), but a browser is not required.
> >
> > Is such a project feasible with Glade? If yes, then any useful
> > pointers/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Sure this is possible, from what I understand doing this
> on windows might be a challenge (even if it's possible
> without modifying source code, finding the right documentation
> to build your app correctly on windows with the components
> you need might prove challenging).
>
> So, what you want is actually a browser, or rather, a browser engine,
> you
> might look at devhelp sources as an example, it's written
> in C but does pretty much what you want.

Accidentally sent this too soon...

In any case, I know that there have been issues with the
python/pygobject/GTK+3/GtkBuilder/windows combination and
I personally can't speak for the status of that part
(the rest of your plan is definitely doable and as I mentioned,
devhelp is a good source base for you to inspect).

Cheers,
    -Tristan

> Devhelp uses webkitgtk (which basically exposes a GtkWidget API
> for a webkit rendering surface) for the actual HTML rendering of
> the API documentation you normally read in devhelp, and then
> uses GtkBuilder xml to define the application layout.
>
> Cheers,
>     -Tristan
>
> > -- 
> > Virgil  Oland Sunset
> >
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