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PythonGTK Programming part 3: Screensaver, Objects, and User Input

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 11, 2009

“Make the window fullscreen
All through the last article I used the term “screensaver” because
this sort of whizzy graphics looks kind of like something you’d see
in a screensaver application. Well, except for one thing:
screensavers cover the whole screen, not just a little window. How
can you make your PyGTK application do that?

“That’s easy: the fullscreen() function. Call it right after
you’ve created the main window:

# Create the main window:
win = gtk.Window()
win.fullscreen()

“But when you make the window that big (Figure 1), you start
noticing a problem: that big button at the bottom looks silly. You
could make it smaller; but why not remove it entirely, and use
keyboard events to tell the program when to exit?”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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