Creating a thread that makes a gobject idle_add function to do the gui update is the only method I could find to get gtk progress bars to update reliably! This is just a simple example I made to demonstrate a gobject updating a progress bar that’s called from a thread started in the gui.

This is a simple function to convert html colors like #AA00FF or #17f5ac to RGB colors for use with Pango or other libraries.

Download eric ide tarball from sourceforge, unpack and install using python. Everything should go smoothly, but if not, create shell scripts in your path somewhere to launch eric with any command line options.

But instead, you find it needs an additional piece, the dropboxd daemon that isn’t included in the package. You see this popup and you click ok, but for whatever reason it just hangs there. Nothing is happening. Now what…?

If you’re looking for a generic way to find the user’s “My Documents” folder in windows, os.environ variables won’t work because they’ change in Windows from one version to another. This method works on Windows XP and Windows 7 which is what I need:

The get_property() ability is there, but it’s just not as intuitive as it should be. So here’s the method I used to make all the text in a buffer flash by inverting the foreground and background properties. Calling flip_tags() just once will just swap the colors one time, but add this into a gobject.idle_add or a timeout function, and you should get a nice flashing effect.