New release of pygtk-0.6.0 and gnome-python-1.0.2

Sonia L. Cooper sonia08 at ibm.net
Mon May 24 19:42:11 EDT 1999


Your message seems to have caused a problem with my system; how do you remove
this?
-Sonia

James Henstridge wrote:

> I have made new releases of pygtk (my bindings for the GTK+ widget toolkit
> for X windows) and gnome-python (my bindings for the base libraries of
> GNOME (the GNU network object model environment)).  These packages allow
> you to write GTK+ or GNOME applications easily in python.
>
> Note that the gnome-python package contains pygtk, so there is no point in
> downloading both packages.
>
> There are a number of bugs fixed in this release, but the main new feature
> is that the GTK main loop no longer blocks other python threads, so it is
> now possible to write multithreaded python programs that use pygtk for
> their interface.  Some care must be taken though, since GTK is not totally
> thread safe.  For this reason, you must call threads_enter() before and
> threads_leave() after pygtk calls from outside the gtk thread (ie.
> anywhere other than in a callback).  Thanks go to Duncan Grisby for this
> feature.
>
> For more information about pygtk and gnome-python, you can go to my
> (slightly out of date) web site at
>   http://www.daa.com.au/~james/pygtk/
>
> gnome-python is available at:
>   ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-python/
> and pygtk will soon be available at:
>   ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/python/
>
> Both packages are also available from my FTP site at
>   ftp://ftp.daa.com.au/pub/james/python/
>
> James Henstridge.
>
> ==
> Email: james at daa.com.au
> WWW:   http://www.daa.com.au/~james/
>
> <P><A HREF="http://www.daa.com.au/~james/pygtk/">pygtk-0.6.0 and
> gnome-python-1.0.2</A> - bindings for the GTK+ widget set and GNOME
> libraries.  (25-Apr-99)
>
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