I am working with some legacy C code which I need to refactor and generally clean up, to remove spaghetti type programming, adhere to the DRY principle etc. I was thinking of rewriting using...

The Introduction Okay, so after version 0.60 of GTK+, the designers realized that for future development and progress, the entire toolkit needed to be rewritten to be object-oriented. Now,...

all I need some window to host webkit or/and cairo drwaing, but i have to deal with all that first to understand what I'm doing. now. I'm lost and no more understand what's all that about. and th...

In PyGTK, what does gobject.type_register() do? The documentation merely says registers the specified Python class as a PyGTK type Well, duh. What does registering a class as a PyGtk type do? ...

I'm trying to use a Gtk.Switch widget in an app but "activate" signal is not firing by clicks. It works fine when using the widget with keyboard by hitting reture/space key on it but clicks don't ...

With introduction of GObject introspection the way to access theme colors through widget.get_style() method is gone. I am interested on how to get theme colors when GTK+ is used through GOBject int...

I have a script with a GTK(GObject) interface I use for posting to my photo blog. I'm trying to improve it's responsiveness by loading the images in a background thread. I've had no luck trying t...

I have written a python script to use gstreamer (pygst and gst modules) to calculate replaygain tags, and it was crashing inconsistently with various gobject errors. I found somewhere that you coul...

Is there a way, using the Gtk library in C, to clone a Gtk button (for instance), and pack it somewhere else in the app. I know you can't pack the same widget twice. And that this code obviously wo...

I'm using libnotify to show desktop notifications in my application; notify_notification_new() returns a NotifyNotification*, which should be passed as the first param to further function calls of ...

GObject class A implements interface IA, B is a derived class of A. How can B override A's method that is part of the interface IA? Or, is this possible in GObject? I know how to override parent...

According to GObject reference g_signal_connect_swapped(instance, detailed_signal, c_handler, data); connects a GCallback function to a signal for a particular object. The instance on which the...

I've created a python object, but I want to send signals on it. I made it inherit from gobject.GObject, but there doesn't seem to be any way to create a new signal on my object.