Foundations of Pygtk Development - 2nd Edition by W David Ashley & Andrew Krause (Paperback)

About the Book

This book guides the reader through the complexities of GTK+, laying the groundwork that allows the reader to make the leap from novice to professional. The book is replete with real-world examples based on the author's profound expertise and experience in this area.

Book Synopsis

Learn how to develop portable GUI programs to run on multiple operating systems. Revised and updated from the popular original, with a full set of new examples in Python and using PyGTK, this book provides all the information you'll need to write easy or complex GUI applications, offering one source of knowledge and best practices for user interface creation.

Foundations of PyGTK Development presents numerous real-life examples that you can immediately put to use in your own applications. It begins with an overview of key topics such as widget choice, placement, and behavior, before moving on to more advanced issues. Building on your familiarity with Python, the book delves into new topics such as object inheritance early on to allow for a complete understanding of code examples later.

What You'll Learn

• Work with layout containers including boxes, tables, grid, and panes
  
• Use the Application and ApplicationWindow classes as the base for your PyGTK application
  
• Manage dialogs to give general information, error messages, or warnings to the user
  
• Incorporate styles, images, and the clipboard within your applications

Who This Book is For

Experienced Python programmers or DevOps administrators tasked with developing or maintaining user interfaces.

From the Back Cover

Learn how to develop portable GUI programs to run on multiple operating systems. Revised and updated from the popular original, with a full set of new examples in Python and using PyGTK, this book provides all the information you'll need to write easy or complex GUI applications, offering one source of knowledge and best practices for user interface creation.

Foundations of PyGTK Development presents numerous real-life examples that you can immediately put to use in your own applications. It begins with an overview of key topics such as widget choice, placement, and behavior, before moving on to more advanced issues. Building on your familiarity with Python, the book delves into new topics such as object inheritance early on to allow for a complete understanding of code examples later.

About the Author

W. David Ashley is a technical writer for SkillSoft where he specializes in open source, particularly Linux. As a member of the Linux Fedora documentation team he recently led the Libvert project documentation, and wrote the Python programs included with it. He has developed in 20 different programming languages during his 30 years as a software developer and IT consultant, including more than 18 years at IBM and 12 years with American Airlines.
Andrew Krause is the creator of OpenLDev, an integrated development environment that focuses on C, C++, Gtk+, and Gtkmm project management. Andrew's experience with many computer and web programming languages includes C, C++, Perl, PHP, and others. During his studies at Penn State he designed flight hardware for the Low Ionosphere Measurement Satellite project.