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Spinbutton

In Glade some properties of spinbutton widgets can be set like the minimum/maximum/default value. It is required to tie a adjustment widget to the spinbutton. To do so select "General > Spin Button Attributes > Adjustment" and assign or create an adjustment.

Looking at the example file the two spinbuttons represent month and year dates. The month spinbutton is set to be circular, the minimum value follows after passing the maximum value. This act emits the wrapped signal which is assigned to then adjust the year date of the second spinbutton.

Combobox

There are two different combobox widgets in GTK+:

GtkComboboxText

The list items of the dropdown menu are strings directly that are directly set in the Glade widget properties

GtkCombobox

The list items are stored in a ListStore or TreeStore element that can hold data sets instead of a plain list. These data stores are accessible to different widgets (see the "List article").

Both widgets can include an optional entry widget which has to be activated in "General > Has Entry". By activating an internal GtkEntry widget is created. It is important to set "Common > Widget Flags > Can focus".

The first ComboboxText widget in the exampe does not possess an entry field, the user can only select an item from the list. In both widgets the changed signal is assigned to retrieve the selection.

Spinbutton

The value of a spinbutton can be easily retrieved and set via get_value and set_value.

In the example the values for the month and year date are set with the current dates. The on_spin_m_wrapped function changes the year date up or down according to the value set in month date.

Combobox

Combobox lists can be extended by using the append function, p.e.

[self.builder.get_object("comboboxtext2").append(None,entry) for entry in ("foo","bar","yes","no")]

You get the selected item by calling widget.set_active_text() which also passes the text of the optional text entry widget.

Glade

08_combospin.glade (Source)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!-- Generated with glade 3.20.0 -->
<interface>
  <requires lib="gtk+" version="3.20"/>
  <object class="GtkAdjustment" id="adj_j">
    <property name="lower">1234</property>
    <property name="upper">3000</property>
    <property name="step_increment">1</property>
    <property name="page_increment">10</property>
  </object>
  <object class="GtkAdjustment" id="adj_m">
    <property name="lower">1</property>
    <property name="upper">12</property>
    <property name="step_increment">1</property>
    <property name="page_increment">10</property>
  </object>
  <object class="GtkWindow" id="window">
    <property name="can_focus">False</property>
    <property name="default_width">400</property>
    <signal name="destroy" handler="on_window_destroy" swapped="no"/>
    <child>
      <object class="GtkBox">
        <property name="visible">True</property>
        <property name="can_focus">False</property>
        <property name="orientation">vertical</property>
        <child>
          <object class="GtkBox">
            <property name="visible">True</property>
            <property name="can_focus">False</property>
            <property name="homogeneous">True</property>
            <child>
              <object class="GtkSpinButton" id="spin_m">
                <property name="visible">True</property>
                <property name="can_focus">True</property>
                <property name="placeholder_text" translatable="yes">Monat</property>
                <property name="adjustment">adj_m</property>
                <property name="wrap">True</property>
                <signal name="wrapped" handler="on_spin_m_wrapped" swapped="no"/>
              </object>
              <packing>
                <property name="expand">False</property>
                <property name="fill">True</property>
                <property name="position">1</property>
              </packing>
            </child>
            <child>
              <object class="GtkSpinButton" id="spin_y">
                <property name="visible">True</property>
                <property name="can_focus">True</property>
                <property name="adjustment">adj_j</property>
                <property name="climb_rate">1</property>
              </object>
              <packing>
                <property name="expand">False</property>
                <property name="fill">True</property>
                <property name="position">2</property>
              </packing>
            </child>
          </object>
          <packing>
            <property name="expand">False</property>
            <property name="fill">True</property>
            <property name="position">0</property>
          </packing>
        </child>
        <child>
          <object class="GtkComboBoxText" id="comboboxtext1">
            <property name="visible">True</property>
            <property name="can_focus">False</property>
            <items>
              <item id="&lt;Geben Sie die Kennung ein&gt;" translatable="yes">eins</item>
              <item translatable="yes">zwei</item>
              <item translatable="yes">12345</item>
              <item translatable="yes">mehr Listenblabla</item>
            </items>
            <signal name="changed" handler="on_comboboxtext1_changed" swapped="no"/>
          </object>
          <packing>
            <property name="expand">False</property>
            <property name="fill">True</property>
            <property name="position">2</property>
          </packing>
        </child>
        <child>
          <object class="GtkComboBoxText" id="comboboxtext2">
            <property name="visible">True</property>
            <property name="can_focus">False</property>
            <property name="has_entry">True</property>
            <signal name="changed" handler="on_comboboxtext2_changed" swapped="no"/>
            <child internal-child="entry">
              <object class="GtkEntry" id="entry">
                <property name="can_focus">True</property>
              </object>
            </child>
          </object>
          <packing>
            <property name="expand">False</property>
            <property name="fill">True</property>
            <property name="position">3</property>
          </packing>
        </child>
      </object>
    </child>
    <child type="titlebar">
      <placeholder/>
    </child>
  </object>
</interface>

Python

08_combospin.py (Source)

#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import datetime

import gi
gi.require_version("Gtk", "3.0")
from gi.repository import Gtk


class Handler:

    def on_window_destroy(self, *args):
        Gtk.main_quit()

    def on_spin_m_wrapped(self, widget):
        if widget.get_value() == 1:
            x.spin_y.set_value(x.spin_y.get_value() + 1)
        else:
            x.spin_y.set_value(x.spin_y.get_value() - 1)

    def on_comboboxtext1_changed(self, widget):
        print("Auswahl ComboBox 1:", widget.get_active_text())

    def on_comboboxtext2_changed(self, widget):
        print("Auswahl ComboBox 2:", widget.get_active_text())


class Example:

    def __init__(self):

        self.builder = Gtk.Builder()
        self.builder.add_from_file("08_combospin.glade")
        self.builder.connect_signals(Handler())

        #set current values for month/year
        self.builder.get_object("spin_m").set_value(datetime.datetime.now().month)
        self.spin_y = self.builder.get_object("spin_y")
        self.spin_y.set_value(datetime.datetime.now().year)

        #set combobox list values
        [self.builder.get_object("comboboxtext2").append(None,entry) for entry in ("bla", "blubb", "ja", "nein")]

        window = self.builder.get_object("window")
        window.show_all()

    def main(self):
        Gtk.main()


x = Example()
x.main()