toga-gtk 0.1.2

A GTK+ backend for the Toga widget toolkit.

A GTK+ backend for the Toga widget toolkit.

This package isn’t much use by itself; it needs to be combined with the core Toga library.

For more details, see the Toga project on Github.

Prerequisites

This backend requires GTK+ 3.4 as a minimum. This is the version provided out of the box by Ubunutu 12.04.

If you want to use a WebView, you’ll also need to have WebKit, plus the GI bindings to WebKit (gir1.2-webkit-3.0) installed.

Problems using virtualenv under Linux

When running under Linux, toga-gtk uses the system native python GTK+3 bindings for display purposes. However, if you’re using a –no-site-packages virtualenv, the Python bindings for GTK won’t be in your PYTHONPATH.

Unfortunately, you can’t pip install GTK+ bindings, so you have to use a workaround. To make the system GTK+ bindings available to your virtualenv, symlinking the gi module from the system dist-packages directory into your virtualenv’s site-packages:

$ cd $VIRTUAL_ENV/lib/python2.7/site-packages
$ ln -si /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gi

Community

Toga is part of the BeeWare suite. You can talk to the community through:

• @pybeeware on Twitter

• The BeeWare Users Mailing list, for questions about how to use the BeeWare suite.

• The BeeWare Developers Mailing list, for discussing the development of new features in the BeeWare suite, and ideas for new tools for the suite.

Contributing

If you experience problems with this backend, log them on GitHub. If you want to contribute code, please fork the code and submit a pull request.