[ubuntu-za] Documentation

[Hannes Coetzee]

On 14/04/2010 15:29, Bill Cairns wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Corrie Strydom<corrie206 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>    
>> Hi Bill, are you looking for specific Python documentation? Have a look at
>> "diveintopython" in Synaptic, you can install this documentation, it will
>> install to file:///usr/share/doc/diveintopython/html/toc/index.html in a
>> browser.
>> My python-doc installed
>> to file:///usr/share/doc/python-doc/html/contents.html in a browser
>> Corrie
>>
>>      
> Hi Corrie,
>
> I am already a great fan of Dive Into Python and also use (in hard
> copy) David Beazley's  Python Essential Reference. I now feel quite
> comfortable with Python and have started broadening my horizons with
> GTK. At first I used GTK "straight" and found it exceedingly verbose
> and cumbersome - but at least I now know the fundamental concepts. It
> was then that I discovered Glade.
>
> Glade seems the ideal tool because of the way that iy completely
> separates the GUI development from the programming of the application.
> I have written a fun little application to help me do crosswords using
> Glade and Python and am impressed by the way that I have twice changed
> the look of the GUI without touching the program.
>
> However, what I have learned about the Python - LibGlade interface is
> mostly what I have learned from copying and pasting from simple
> tutorials. So I have used code like:
>
>                 self.wTree = gtk.glade.XML( "XWordGUI.glade" )
> 		
> 		dic = {
> 			"on_buttonQuit_clicked" : self.quit,
> 			"on_XWordWindow_destroy" : self.quit,
> 			"on_entryTemplate_activate" : self.enter_callback,
> 			"on_findButton_clicked" : self.enter_callback,
> 			"on_checkbuttonAnagram_toggled" : self.toggle_anagram
> 		}
> 		
> 		self.wTree.signal_autoconnect( dic )
> and
>
> 		win = self.wTree.get_widget("entryTemplate").get_text()	
>
> (Sorry about the indents if they don't work - my one hassle with python)
>
> But I don't really have a clue how "gtk.glade.XML (nnn)" or the
> "xxx.get.widget(nnn).get_text ()" work - or even worse how to change
> them when I use a different widget. Right now i want to use the Glade
> filechooser  dialog but am not sure even where to get the file name
> ...
>
>    
The first result in google points to http://www.pygtk.org/docs/pygtk/ 
.It would be nice to have it available offline. Maybe use wget or 
scrapbook to grab that site.