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This section contains some tutorials for ROX application developers.
If you find something confusing, you can leave a comment
like this one. You might also like to link to extra documentation
that you've found useful with some part. -- Thomas Leonard
This tutorial will show you how to create simple ROX applications using Python. Covers creating an application directory, giving it an icon, help files and code, plus an introduction to using Gtk+ to provide a user interface.
Shows how to respond to files being dragged onto your application from the filer or from another application.
This tutorial shows how to write a simple Lorem Ipsum generator, with drag-and-drop saving.
This tutorial creates a simple clock which can run standalone or on a panel. It also demonstrates the use of a timeout to update the clock.
Here we give our clock applet/application a popup menu.
Here we give our clock application an options window to let the user choose the time format.
The tasks module provides a simple alternative to writing multi-threaded applications, using python's generator functions. In this tutorial, we create a simple network service that can handle connections from several clients simultaneously.
How to build your application's GUI using glade.
Python for BASIC programmers primer.ROX-LibPyGtkPyGtk Articles and Tutorials (not ROX specific)