[pygtk] Retrieving selection data

1999-11-01 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
How do I retrieve the current X selection in pygtk? I'd like to, say, have it as a Python string, or as None if none is available. I've looked at the Gtk tutorial, but in this case, wasn't at all obvious how to convert the C code to Python. To unsubscribe: echo "unsubscribe" | mail [EMAIL

[pygtk] Panel applet taking button2

1999-11-01 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
Is there a way for a panel applet to have control of button2 clicks. Normally, when button2 is pressed, the applet is moved. However, I *really* want my applet to respond to button2 clicks. Any ideas? To unsubscribe: echo "unsubscribe" | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[pygtk] How to obtain the pointer position?

1999-11-01 Thread Rob Hodges
Is it possible to obtain the pointer position with pygtk, regardless of whether it's inside your window or not? The only app I could think of that does this is XEyes, which I find upon investigation uses XQueryPointer from Xlib -- is there some kind of analogue/wrapper to this function in gtk?

[pygtk] gnome.config question

1999-11-01 Thread Edward Muller
I just tried something like this: if gnome.config.get_string("/App/Section/Setting") == "None": writedefaults() it didn't work. this did: if str(gnome.config.get_string("/App/Section/Setting")) == "None": writedefaults() I had to cast the return from gnome.config.get_string as a

Re: [pygtk] gnome.config question

1999-11-01 Thread Matt Wilson
On Mon, Nov 01, 1999 at 09:29:15PM -0500, Edward Muller wrote: I just tried something like this: if gnome.config.get_string("/App/Section/Setting") == "None": writedefaults() it didn't work. this did: if str(gnome.config.get_string("/App/Section/Setting")) == "None":