The View

class gtkmvc.view.View(glade=None, top=None, parent=None, builder=None)

Only the first three may be given as positional arguments. If an argument is empty a class attribute of the same name is used. This does not work for parent.

glade is a path to an XML file defining widgets in libglade format.

Deprecated since version 1.99.1.

builder is a path to an XML file defining widgets in GtkBuilder format.

New in version 1.99.1.

top is a string or a list of strings containing the names of our top level widgets. When using libglade only their children are loaded.

parent is used to call set_parent_view().

The last two only work if glade or builder are used, not if you intend to create widgets later from code.

Deprecated since version 1.99.1: In future versions the functionality will be split into the new class ManualView and its child BuilderView.

__getitem__(key)

Return the widget named key, or None.

Note

In future versions this will likely change to raise KeyError.

__setitem__(key, wid)

Add a widget. This overrides widgets of the same name that were loaded fom XML. It does not affect GTK container/child relations.

If no top widget is known, this sets it.

__iter__()

Return an iterator over widgets added with __setitem__() and those loaded from XML.

Note

In case of name conflicts this yields widgets that are not accessible via __getitem__().

get_top_widget()

Return a widget or list of widgets.

hide()

Call hide_all() on all known top widgets.

set_parent_view(parent_view)

Set self.get_top_widget() transient for parent_view.get_top_widget().

set_transient(transient_view)

Set transient_view.get_top_widget() transient for self.get_top_widget().

show()

Call show() on each top widget or show_all() if only one is known. Otherwise does nothing.