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Spin button General properties in Glade arranged in a weird manner

Can you see in the properties you have to scroll all the way to the right to see whats on the buttons. Is this a bug or can I edit this from somewhere, this only happens in spinbuttons and their ...
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Can you name Ubuntu applications that were developed using Python, pyGtk, Glade? [closed]

I started using Python at a very basic level. As a second step, I would like to develop Python software using pyGTK and Glade as GUI designer. I found very easy to learn by examples and I think it ...
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how do you implement a progress bar using Python / glade web browser [closed]

im trying to get the progressbar in glade to work in conjunction with my web browser. What i want to happen is the progress bar shows how far along a page is being loaded. I have scoured the ...
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how do you add a home button and tabs to custom written web browser in ubuntu

how do you code in a home button for a web browser? im creating a web browser in ubuntu for use in ubuntu. I am using a mix of Glade, Python, quickly, WebKit and WebView i have got nearly ...
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ComboBoxText in Glade / GTK+3 / Python - disappears when displayed 2nd time

I'm trying to implement a drop down list in an Ubuntu app using Glade (GTK+3) and Python. I can get the ComboBoxText to display, populated with strings. However when I close the window it is contained ...
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How to create an Ubuntu app using python and Qt4 designer

I recently started developing Ubuntu desktop apps using Quickly. But then I tried out the Qt4 designer and I feel more comfortable with it than Glade designer that Quickly uses. I liked developing ...
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How to activate flash player for a Quickly created webview/webkit app

I created a web browser program using webview/webkit as the web displayer. I noticed that when I went to youtube only a few videos worked. I am pretty sure that I have to tell webview to activate ...
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Edit Label is inactive in Glade

I am using quickly to create ubuntu-applications. I am follwing the tutorial presented in the line http://developer.ubuntu.com/get-started/ When I add a toolbutton to the tool bar, I am unable to Edit ...
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App development, quickly not working

I'm new to Ubuntu but not that new to development in modern coding to say. I've started building a app for Ubuntu mostly just to get started and I was using the guide that ubuntu.com's development ...
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writing note taking app, save and load text with tags from textbuffer written in python and glade

I am writing a note taking app with python and glade. I've been searching the web for the how to save and retrieve textbuffer with tags from simple app made with python and glade. I would like to get ...
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Can't center dialog window above main window when using Glade (Quickly)

I have a dialog opening when I press a button in my application and I want it to center above the application's main window, but I can't find a way to do this. I'm using Quickly (Python) and Glade. ...
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How do I provide arguments to mapped methods in quickly preferences dialog?

I'm using quickly on 11.04 and I'm trying to add a textbuffer object to the preferences dialog so that its contents is updated automatically to the couchdb. So in __init__.py I changed the dictionary ...
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How can I add cut/copy/paste functionality to my application?

I'm developing an Electoral Calculator (https://launchpad.net/electoralcalculator) using Python 2.7, Gtk+3 and Glade and I want to add cut/copy/paste functionality to my application. I want to give ...
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Application Development - basic how to questions

After the Ubuntu app showdown is over, I would like to bring some of my tools programmed for Windows in the Software center. Since I'm new into programming for Linux I still have some questions: 1) I ...
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Glade radio buttons save state

I'm writing small application where I have preferences and in preferences I have radio buttons... I managed to get signals out from them but the only problem I got is saving state of them. As this is ...
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quickly python “choose folder” signal problem [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: GtkFileChooserButton 'Select Folder' mode returns no path I have created choose folder button in glade and i want it to return path to me when folder is chosen, ...
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Quickly App Web application

After I submitted my app for the showdown I would like to know whether it would be possible to make a Webapp out of it. Is it possible with a desktop app created with Quickly/Glade/Python or is it ...
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Buttons in Glade [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: What GTK widget is this? I'm starting to learn Glade and Python and there's an application that I have in mind, but I'm having lots of trouble in styling the default ...
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Path for source files

Where should I add source files for my program? I created a folder /data/src and put the files there. In my Python code I tried to point with os.getcwd() to it. This works for quickly run but if I ...
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Subscript in Glade

How can I format a text with subscript in Glade? I want to display a text with a formular such as H2O. Thanks
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How can I add a Notebook background in Glade?

I want to add a background image to my pages in my notebook. How I can do this?
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GtkFileChooserButton 'Select Folder' mode returns no path

I have added a GtkFileChooserButton to my app via Glade. It is set to folder selection mode. When the widget is clicked it shows a dropdown list of Nautilus bookmarks with an 'other' option in the ...
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Dynamic editing and running quickly apps

Is there a possibility of viewing the app changes dynamically as i edit the code or the interface(in glade). I want to basically edit and view the changes in the app on the fly, without restarting ...
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Embedding a back and forward arrows, home button, and download manager in a quickly application

I have downloaded a set of icons to use for my web browser that I'm creating and would like to use. I know how to add the icons, but I only know the code for the refresh button. My question is what is ...
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How to set PyGtk toolbuttons label color?

I am just beginning learning Quickly and PyGtk, after see this info-video on Ubuntu-develperment. As in the video I am adding a toolbar to my glade-file, then some buttons. To style the toolbar for ...
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Glade Widget Color

I start to get familiar with glade and quickly but one thing I can't figure out. How can I set colors, e.g. background colors or label font colors? Can I do this in Glade or do I have to do it in ...
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How to force text to resize together with window? [closed]

I have some text in my app window. I'd like it to resize if someone resizes the app window (if window gets bigger, the text gets bigger too). Is this possible to achieve using Quickly, Glade and ...
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Why changing signals causes NameErrors in a sane code? - PyGtk issue

I'm working on a very simple app for Ubuntu. I've asked a question on stackoverflow, and it seems that the issue I am having is caused by signals, not by the scope of variables, as I originally ...
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How do I stop a container box from expanding horizontally in Glade?

Currently, when my button's label gets more characters, its container boxes resize horizontally, and push away the other containers next to it. I don't want this behaviour. How do I give my boxes a ...
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Problems related with spin buttons

So, I have an important problem related with spin buttons in Python/GTK3. I'm trying to create a spin button in my project, Virtuam, and it seems to work... but with a bug which blocks the +/- ...
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GTK3 tabs with big icons

I want to implement something similar to the ubuntu software center's tabs. What widget is it? Any working example in python where I could take a look? Is this widget available in Glade? Thanks ...
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how to set the border = 0 on GtkBox (dialog-Vbox-Element) in Glade on Dialog, which was creadted via “quickly add dialog”

To make the Toolbar look native in Ubuntu (like the application in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=sO8hiPreNBg), I don't want to show a border. In my main ...
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Why is ComboBoxText giving me a “no attribute” error?

I'm trying to add a text Combo Box into my app. I've created in and populated the list but when I I try to print out the active text I get an error. Here's the part of the code in question: def ...
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Teeview-Binding to CouchDB not working with quickly (PyGtk + Glade)

For the Ubuntu App Developer Showdown I need to know some basics about quickly. One really important thing is to know how the Treeview-Binding works with CouchDB. I did the Tutorial1 ...
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Glade: How can I set the value of a spin button?

I've done some spin buttons with Glade for my Python/GTK3 app, but I don't know how to set things like default, lower or higher value. How can I do it? Using the following things for development: ...
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Glade GTK entry get text

Sorry for a newbie question but I could not figure out how to print a text which a user enter in a GTKEntry field after he press a button. I design my app with glade, a simple TextEntry Field and a ...
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How to connect GTK3 button click events to callbacks

So, I'm developing my 1st app with GTK3 and I don't know how to link my buttons with their respective defs. Can anyone post a tutorial, an example or some docs? Using next things for developing my ...
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Changing TextView font in PyGTK

I have TextView widget in Glade named "formula-view". I'm trying to do this to change font: formulaView = self.builder.get_object("formula-view") fontdesc = pango.FontDescription('Ubuntu 16') ...
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Calling a Python script from a button using Glade Designer

How can I call the Ubuntu One authentication python script from a button using Glade? what I need to do is call a python script such as: $ python u1file.py login Adding Ubuntu One Files support to ...
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How to make Glade load translations from /opt

I've created an application that I'd like to submit through the Ubuntu app developer process. One of the requirements for the process is that when installed, all files go into the ...
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How to make a Gtk.ComboBoxText's entry editable in Glade

I'm using Glade to write a PyGI app, and I've come across a problem whereby I've got a Gtk.ComboBoxText with a Gtk.Entry, but I cannot make the entry editable for some reason. I.e. when the UI is ...
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Working with quickly, are there any gtk.Builder code sketching tools that integrate?

Example: quickly create ubuntu-application testing quickly design #makes changes #insert some other command here that would be roughly equivalent to 'quickly sketch' quickly edit #to populate the ...
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Custom PyGTK dialog with Glade

I'm building simple PyGTK app using Glade UI designer. I followed pattern from default Ubuntu app, where preferences and about dialog are implemented extending gtk.Dialog, so I added new dialog with ...
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Is PyGTK still relevant?

I'm new to Linux but not to app development. I come from a RealBasic on a Mac background. I've accepted that I need to learn a new language to develop for Linux (since RB won't run on 64 bit distros ...