23 June 2000

Did a lot of work on the extension class based pygtk. It now does most of what the non extension class based one did. With a simple skeleton generator, adding support for new libraries is very easy. I added libglade and gtkglarea support in just a few hours (gtkglarea was easier, as it required less override code). I also tightened up the type checking a bit, so you get a python exception if you try to pass a non widget to gtk_container_add for instance (rather than a Gtk-WARNING and the function failing without telling the python program). For those interested, you can get it here.

I have been wondering about whether it is worth releasing this version at all, as it breaks compatibility and would be followed by another compatibility breaking release when gtk+-1.4 comes out. Even if I don't release it, a lot of the work done on it. Now that Havoc's gdk object branch has been merged into the head of gtk+, my code generator should be able to generate even more of the bindings.

I set up the gtk-1.3 libraries on my system, but there is a few problems with rendering (ie. none of the widgets render). I might start looking at porting pygtk accross to it soon.