Quickly is a rapid application development toolkit by Canonical, Ltd. Quickly leverages Python, GTK, Bazaar and Launchpad.
Questions tagged [canonical-quickly]
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An up to date Quickly(ubuntu) Guide
Does anyone know of an up to date guide for Quickly, it has changed a lot since I have lasted used it.
I'm trying to link a button to an function. I believe all you need to do is name the function in a special way…

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General layouts & architecture for giving a command-line server a basic GUI in Ubuntu/Quckly?
A few years ago I wrote a python command-line utility for a local community radio station. The purpose of this job was to enhance a radio-stream with metadata obtained from Google Calendar. This meant that anybody listening to the radio station on…

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Can apps created using Quickly for Ubuntu be used in other linux distros?
I need to write a small program to update my mongodb. I'm currently on ubuntu but I need to use it on other linux distributions.
I would just like to make sure that applications using this method can be run on other distros.
Is that true ?

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Ubuntu quickly (python/gtk) - how to monitor stdin?
I'm starting to work with Ubuntu's "quickly" framework, which is python/gtk based. I want to write a gui wrapper for a textmode C state-machine that uses stdin/stdout.
I'm new to gtk. I can see that the python print command will write to the…

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Manual to Quickly: application preferences?
Where can one find a manual to Quickly, where it is written about using (=programming, how to connect widgets in PreferencesDialogWindow with preferences, and how to use them in the application) application preferences? Official tutorial (both in…

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Do threading (socket listening) in python with Quickly
I'm making an application with socket listening with python. I have used Quickly by canonical (which use glade with gi.repository to make gui). But I can't create thread to listening function anyhow. I have tried many ways even with thread class and…

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PyGtk CellRendererCombo using Pixbuf
I would like to display a ComboBox in my TreeView that contains some Icons. So I created a ListStore to hold the data.
# Initialize a list store for the combobox.
priorityModel = Gtk.ListStore(GObject.TYPE_INT, GdkPixbuf.Pixbuf)
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How to change Url bar with loaded page in Python Using Quickly
I am really new at Python. I saw tutorial on youtube followed it and created web browser. Now Im trying to add features.
Im using Quickly on ubuntu.
I need to find signal from WebKit wich says page loaded. I will get url address and put it in…

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Error in running ubuntu's Quickly app. in root
I had made a GUI for my project using Ubuntu's Quickly. When I run the app in root using command quickly run, I get the following error
GLib-GIO-ERROR *: Settings schema 'org.gnome.desktop.interface' is not
installed".
However the app runs fine…

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Open subwindow in GTK3
When Canonical-Quickly sets up a new project it has the following line for the "About dialog":
self.AboutDialog = AboutNewAppDialog
I edited the menu item in glade and added the following code to the python code for the main window:
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Store changeable (on runtime) lists in GSettings?
I want to store changeable list in GSettings (the list is the contents of a GtkComboBoxText - how to get all of it, btw?). By changeable I mean, that it might need changing on runtime. What is the best way to do it?
Of course I can just concatenate…

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Ubuntu quickly warning
I just created "jotty" the tutorial application using quickly. It works fine, but I get the following warnings:
$ quickly run
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gi/overrides/Gtk.py:391: Warning:
g_object_set_property: construct property "type"…

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Can't build after adding Notebook Control in Glest
After watching this video:
http://developer.ubuntu.com/get-started/
I've created an Ubuntu application using Quickly and Glade. However, after adding a tab control (called a Notebook in glade), I hit the save button in Glade.
When I try to run my…

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Pixel coordinates using PyGTK
I'm creating a Image viewer in Ubuntu using PyGTK.
However, I'm not completely aware of pygtk API.
I'm not able to figure out how can I use PyGTK to
access click point coordinates on an Image
read a pixel value.

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Passing a variable to a dialog
I need to pass a message to an error dialog, to display it to the user.
First attempt
PreferencesDialog.py
dlgError = ErrorDialog ('Have you been messing with the configuration files?')
dlgError.run ()
ErrorDialog.py
global message = None
def…

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