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I have decided to create a simple, mini-project, (depending on your definition of simple) video inspector (& player). There will be a gnome / GTK graphical interface, a simple file chooser dialog, a small box on the screen for the video, and a table of labels to display important clip information. This will test ...

I'm going to put all the GUI and Python issues aside for a moment, and share a few things I've learned about creating a non-linear video editor using the Gstreamer framework. One of the original authors of Gstreamer also created a library called gnonlin (i.e. Gstreamer Non-Linear). This library assists ...

As great as Cairo seems, I just recently learned about a widget in the gnome / GTK+ library that can also be used for drawing: Gnome Canvas. While Cairo seems to be more for drawing static, non-interactive pictures, the Gnome Canvas is more for layering shapes, bitmaps, etc... onto a "canvas", and it keeps ...

Glade 3.0 is a great GUI designer. I can't imagine creating a GUI using code when this option is available. It takes no more than a few minutes to setup a screen, name your signals, and set the default properties. It's also super easy to hook up the handler methods.

Check out this code example ...

Now that I have completed many tutorials and logged many hours coding, I feel good about my Python skills. I can easily create classes, use inheritance, call methods, and my favorite, list comprehensions. Now what? I need to learn GTK+, and how to use it with Python. I found a great tutorial for PyGTK ...