On Sep 16, 12:30 pm, binaryjesus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi everyone, > first of all > I had written an app using pygtk module and created the GUI with > glade.All the development was done on a linux machine and the app was > working fine all this tme in linux. > > now, the thing is i have to change the development environment to > windows. So this means that i have to port the application to work in > windows. > > Initially i thought that porting an application written using a > platform independent language and cross-platform window frame work > would be a piece of cake. Well i guess all the assumptions end there. > unlike linux, in windows pygtk and the GTK frame work are not > installed by default. > > So, long story short. i installed GTK devel, pygtk, pygobject, pycaro, > glade ui. Also made a lot of path adjustments (os.path.absolutepath() > is not portable i guess) and finally got the app to at least start > without showing an error. > > The problem that i am now facing is that nothing shows up in the app. > No menu, buttons, frames or anything else is visible. When i move the > cursor over the window it changes into an hour-glass type icon. hoe > ever all c++ GTK programs seem to render well. > > here is a screen shot:http://i36.tinypic.com/x52uk9.jpg > > i have written below the startup code of the app: > > import pygtk > pygtk.require('2.0') > import gtk > import gtk.glade > from ConfigParser import ConfigParser > > class jDesk(object): > def __init__(self): > #self.seclstore.append(["0","Section1"]) > #self.catlstore.append(["cat 1"]) > self.synclstore = gtk.ListStore(str,str,str,str,str,int) > self.seclstore = gtk.ListStore(str,str) > self.catlstore = gtk.ListStore(str,str) > self.process_glade() > > def process_glade(self): > self.gladefile = "gui.glade" > self.glade = gtk.glade.XML(self.gladefile) > #windows > self.main_window = self.glade.get_widget('MainWindow') > #main window > self.templatefile = self.glade.get_widget('templatefile') > self.imageurl = self.glade.get_widget('imageurl') > self.posttitle = self.glade.get_widget('posttitle') > self.sectionbox = self.glade.get_widget('sectionbox') > self.categorybox = self.glade.get_widget('categorybox') > self.demolink = self.glade.get_widget('demolink') > self.posttext = self.glade.get_widget('posttext') > self.statusbar = self.glade.get_widget('statusbar') > > self.signal_autoconnect() > self.main_window.show() > print '===================main wind created=================' > def run(self): > try: > print "Entering GTK main now" > gtk.main() > print "Leaving GTK main" > except: > print "Exception in main" > > if __name__ == "__main__": > conf = ConfigParser() > conf.read('settings.cfg') > gtk.gdk.threads_init() > app = jDesk() > app.run() > > i have tried a lot of things, checked up paths, checked libcairo but > nothing seems to help.problem seems to be with pygtk since other c++ > GTK programs like pedgin and GTK demo rn fine. > So maybe is there any pygtk windows bugs that i coming from linux > background might not be knowing about or perhaps u have encountered > such a problem in the past before ? > Much thanks in advance > BinaryJ
I haven't tried it myself, but I came across a blog post the other day that describes a way of building windows installers for pyGTK applications at http://unpythonic.blogspot.com/2007/07/pygtk-py2exe-and-inno-setup-for-single.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
