Foundations of PyGTK Development: GUI Creation with Python

© W. David Ashley and Andrew Krause 2019

W. David Ashley and Andrew KrauseFoundations of PyGTK Developmenthttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4179-0_4

4. Containers

W. David Ashley¹  and Andrew Krause²

(1)

AUSTIN, TX, USA

(2)

Leesburg, VA, USA

 

Chapter 3 introduced the basic essentials needed for creating basic GTK+ applications. It also introduced signals, callback methods, the Gtk.label class, the Gtk.Button class, and the Gtk.Container class.

In this chapter, you expand our knowledge of the Gtk.Container class. Then we show the two kinds of contained widgets: layout and decorator containers. Additionally, we cover a number of derived widgets, including boxes, notebooks, handle boxes, and expanders.

The last widget covered, Gtk.EventBox, allows widgets ...