Questions tagged [canonical-quickly]

Quickly is a rapid application development toolkit by Canonical, Ltd. Quickly leverages Python, GTK, Bazaar and Launchpad.

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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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