putting glade interface in python

Question

I\'ve made a gui in glade that I want to put in a python program. I was adapting the instructions from a tutorial I found online to load in my glade file (http://www.pygtk.org/a

Answer 1

Since I always end up having problems with this, here is a Python 2.7 code that I use for one or the other:

for Libglade:

# needs libglade (not for gtk-builder)
import pygtk
pygtk.require("2.0")
import gtk
import gtk.glade

gladefile = "test-libglade.glade"
wTree = gtk.glade.XML(gladefile)
window = wTree.get_widget("MainWindow")
if (window):
  window.connect("destroy", gtk.main_quit)

window.show_all() # must have!
gtk.main()

For GtkBuilder:

# needs gtk-builder (not for libglade)
import pygtk
pygtk.require("2.0")
import gtk

gladefile = "test-gtkbuilder.glade"
wTree = gtk.Builder()
wTree.add_from_file(gladefile)
window = wTree.get_object("MainWindow")
if (window):
  window.connect("destroy", gtk.main_quit)

window.show_all() # must have!
gtk.main()

In Glade, you can just add a Window, call it MainWindow, and save two versions with the respective filenames as above for each format; and these snippets should work with them respeactively.

Hope this helps someone,
Cheers!