Comments on: Writing a Custom Widget Using PyGTK

By: Mendhak

Mendhak — Tue, 15 May 2012 21:13:24 +0000

In case anyone’s interested, I’ve made some modifications to allow for mouseovers, so the stars move with the mouse.

https://gist.github.com/2705169

By: Ian Molton

Ian Molton — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:36:43 +0000

Great tutorial. I can confirm that Stuarts fix cures the redraw issue.

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By: Stuart Jansen

Stuart Jansen — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:42:30 +0000

To get the code to work with pygtk 2.14, I had to add
self.allocation = allocation
to do_size_allocate().

By: Philip Stark

Philip Stark — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 14:35:19 +0000

I fixed your example. the problem was that “self.allocation” was gtk.gdk.Rectangle(-1,-1,1,1) which made the do_expose_event only repaint a very small area outside the actual widget. I will send you the updated code as soon as I get home.
or just a diff, whatever you’d prefer
It was my first contact with pyGTK and i liked it a lot. your tutorial was very helpful (although i mainly just read the comments in the code )

(additionally, i changed the code to load the picture from a file. but that was a very small change)

By: selsine

selsine — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:05:33 +0000

Great work Pietro, thanks for the information. I’ll keep my eye on that bug and update the code once it is resolved. IF I find the time I’ll try to find a suitable work around.

By: Pietro Battiston

Pietro Battiston — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:46:17 +0000

I filed a bug: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=565405

By: Pietro Battiston

Pietro Battiston — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:43:14 +0000

I tested this in OpenSolaris too, same behaviour: no “motion” event is catched and no star is drawn until the window is not resized.

By: Pietro Battiston

Pietro Battiston — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 09:50:45 +0000

I can confirm what Karl wrote: I tested the source on both Hardy and Intrepid, on two different computers, and until the widget is resized one can move the mouse over the window and/or click, but “motion_notify_event” will never be called.

Once the widget is resized, _every_ mouse motion (not only mouse first entering the allocation area!) triggers motion_notify_event, and notice that every event is a hint (the “else” clause in “motion_notify_event” is never called at all).

I had problems with anoter app (I’m writing) which doesn’t catch motion hints properly.

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