PyGTK tutorial

last modified October 18, 2023

This is PyGTK tutorial. In this tutorial, we learn the basics of GUI programming in PyGTK. The PyGTK tutorial is suitable for beginners and more advanced programmers.

PyGTK is outdated, have a look at Python Gtk tutorial.

Table of contents

• Introduction

• First steps

• Layout management

• Menus

• Toolbars

• Signals & events

• Widgets

• Widgets II

• Advanced widgets

• Dialogs

• Pango

• Pango II

• Drawing with cairo

• Drawing with cairo II

• Snake

• Custom widget

PyGTK

PyGTK is a set of Python wrappers for the GTK+ GUI library. It offers a comprehensive set of graphical elements and other useful programming facilities for creating desktop applications. It is a part of the GNOME project. PyGTK is free software and licensed under the LGPL.

Author

My name is Jan Bodnar, and I am a passionate programmer with extensive programming experience. I have been writing programming articles since 2007. To date, I have authored over 1,400 articles and 8 e-books. I possess more than ten years of experience in teaching programming.