Getting started with pyGtk and Glade

pyGtk is one of the best gui toolkit available for python. Glade is an interface designer from Gnome project to ease you through the process of gui development. If you are using a Ubuntu Linux, the only program you need to install is the Glade interface designer, which you can get from here. Glade and pyGtk is available for windows too, this link would guide through the process. Here are a few links to get started with pygtk and glade.

http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/6750/1/
http://www.learningpython.com/2006/05/07/creating-a-gui-using-pygtk-and-glade/
http://www.learningpython.com/2006/05/30/building-an-application-with-pygtk-and-glade/

A walk, through these links would make you help you, know the basics of pygtk. Treelists, Treeviews, Dialogbox, Textentry and much more widgets are discussed in these links.Comboboxes ,liststores, treeview signal handling and other stuff would be discussed in the coming articles. If you have read all these articles, it’s time to start developing your own applications. A twitter client would be a good idea. It is easy to develop as twitter offers a nice and simple python api.

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clue: If you are searching for a nice python api for twitter http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/, would be a nice choice. Now your process of developing twitter app has reduced to merely designing the interface and handling the signals of various widgets. Have fun developing python apps….

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