Hi all, Can someone tell me why I do not get a connection between the events and the functions in the sample below. GUI window appears OK, just no connections seem to be made. I am new to this so may be missing something fundamental. Thanks, Doug
file pgtest.glade ================= <?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?> <!--*- mode: xml -*--> <!DOCTYPE glade-interface SYSTEM "http://glade.gnome.org/glade-2.0.dtd"> <glade-interface> <widget class="GtkWindow" id="page"> <property name="visible">True</property> <property name="events">GDK_KEY_PRESS_MASK</property> <property name="title" translatable="yes">PGtestWindow</property> <property name="type">GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL</property> <property name="window_position">GTK_WIN_POS_NONE</property> <property name="modal">False</property> <property name="default_width">640</property> <property name="default_height">480</property> <property name="resizable">True</property> <property name="destroy_with_parent">True</property> <property name="decorated">True</property> <property name="skip_taskbar_hint">False</property> <property name="skip_pager_hint">False</property> <property name="type_hint">GDK_WINDOW_TYPE_HINT_NORMAL</property> <property name="gravity">GDK_GRAVITY_NORTH_WEST</property> <signal name="destroy_event" handler="on_page_destroy_event" last_modification_time="Thu, 16 Mar 2006 12:57:33 GMT"/> <child> <widget class="GtkDrawingArea" id="drawingarea1"> <property name="visible">True</property> <property name="events">GDK_KEY_PRESS_MASK</property> <property name="extension_events">GDK_EXTENSION_EVENTS_ALL</property> <signal name="key_press_event" handler="on_drawingarea1_key_press_event" last_modification_time="Thu, 16 Mar 2006 10:09:36 GMT"/> <signal name="destroy_event" handler="on_drawingarea1_destroy_event" last_modification_time="Thu, 16 Mar 2006 13:01:31 GMT"/> </widget> </child> </widget> </glade-interface> file pgtest.py ============== import gtk import gtk.glade def on_drawingarea1_key_press(widget): print "keypress" xml = gtk.glade.XML('pgtest.glade') widget = xml.get_widget('drawingarea1') #print type(xml) xml.signal_autoconnect({ "on_drawingarea1_key_press_event": on_drawingarea1_key_press, "on_page_destroy_event":gtk.mainquit }) gtk.main() -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list