In the past, I've used Visual-C++ for creating dialog-based interfaces for controlling equipment and displaying data, and I'm looking for something of similar ease-of-use in Python since that's now my preferred language. A web-search told me that Glade seems to be most peoples choice (over QT-Designer) for a GUI builder. So even though I use a KDE desktop (Kubuntu 14.10), I decided to try Glade.
So I web-searched for a Glade "hello world" example to get me started. The top Google hit for that gave me a tutorial that only took a short time to work through, and did convince me of Glade's ease-of-use, but the Python code crashed. Searching on the error-message told me that I needed to select Glade's "libglade" output format instead of its "gtkbuilder" output format to work with that tutorial. Glade doesn't offer that option any more -- you just get XML for "gtkbuilder". So... I searched on "gtkbuilder hello world", which gave me the "Python GTK+3 Tutorial" at readthedocs.org, and the Python code examples there gave a somewhat different syntax, from which I was able to figure out how to fix the tutorial, and then the code worked fine. So am I understanding this correctly: If I use this include line: "from gi.repository import Gtk, Gdk, GObject, Pango" etc... ... I get, in effect, the libraries used in Gnome-3 even with python2? Whatever "gi.repository" is? It's a bit hard to figure this out from the complexity of differing versions that I've turned up from Google searches. Am I on the right track now? Glade is a good choice for GUI building? And even though I'm using Python2, I should be ignoring all examples turned up by searching for "PyGTK" because they all seem to be GTK+2 and obsolete? Is that "Python GTK+3 Tutorial" as good as any for me to work through? https://python-gtk-3-tutorial.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
