[Tutor] How to add extra Vbox fields dynamically

[Lang Hurst]

OK, figured that was probably bad etiquette, but there doesn't seem to 
be close to the same traffic.  Mea culpa.  I won't do it again.  I think 
most of my issues have to do with the gtk part, so I'll post there for 
the most part.  Thanks.

Timo wrote:
> On 20-06-10 04:04, Lang Hurst wrote:
>> OK, I just did the ugliest hack, from someone who only seems to do 
>> ugly hacks.  I set up a bunch of textview areas and defaulted them to 
>> 'not visible'.  Then as I loop through my query results, I make them 
>> visible one at a time.  Well, it works perfect, but it just doesn't 
>> seem right for some reason.
> You also posted this on the PyGTK mailing list, which is the correct 
> place for these problems. Please post your PyGTK questions only there, 
> do not double post. I'll answer you there.
>
> Cheers,
> Timo
>
>>
>> Lang Hurst wrote:
>>> I hope that I'm asking this in the right place.  I don't have too 
>>> much trouble hacking together command line stuff, but the GUI part 
>>> is a struggle for me.
>>>
>>> I created a UI in glade.  It has a couple of Vboxes for 
>>> information.  The final box is filled with a TextView.  In my 
>>> program, I'm connecting to a database and pulling out a series of 
>>> records.  As it stands, I can pull out all the records and view them 
>>> in the TextView, but I would like to be able to have each result be 
>>> a separate TextView (which I then have to figure out how to make 
>>> clickable...)
>>>
>>> Right now, this part looks like:
>>>
>>>    query = 'SELECT subject, chapter_module, credits, final_test_score,
>>>    notes FROM credits WHERE id=' + student[0][6]
>>>    cursor.execute(query)
>>>    credits = cursor.fetchall()
>>>    temp = ''
>>>    for credit in credits:
>>>        sub_buf = 15 - len(credit[0])
>>>        chap_buf = 15 - len(credit[1])
>>>        cred_buf = 5 - len(credit[2])
>>>        score_buf = 5 - len(credit[1])
>>>        temp = temp + credit[0] + " " * sub_buf + credit[1] + " " *
>>>    chap_buf + "Credits: " + credit[2] + " " * chap_buf +  "Score: " +
>>>    credit[3] + "\n\nNOTES: " + credit[4] + "\n" + " " * 5 + "-" * 50 +
>>>    "\n\n"
>>>
>>>        # I would like to loop something here
>>>         # to have multiple text areas added
>>>
>>>    buff = self.builder.get_object('textview1').get_buffer()
>>>    buff.set_text(temp)
>>>
>>>
>>> This works fine.  It pulls the records out of the database, and then 
>>> cats the results together and throws it into my TextView.  I'm happy 
>>> with the results so far, but I would like to be able to click on 
>>> each record if I see something that needs to be modified.  As 
>>> always, any help is appreciated.
>>>
>>> Also, can anyone recommend a good book for gtk + glade + python?  I 
>>> went out and bought Learning Python, but book at B&N that were 
>>> remotely GUI related seems very outdated or just tkinter related, 
>>> and just about all the gtk+python examples and tutorials don't use 
>>> glade.  Thanks again.
>>>
>>>
>>> -Lang
>>>
>>
>>
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