"""

Superclass for glade based applications. Just derive from this

and your subclass should create methods whose names correspond to

the signal handlers defined in the glade file. Any other attributes

in your class will be safely ignored.

This class will give you the ability to do:

subclass_instance.GtkWindow.method(...)

subclass_instance.widget_name...

"""

def __init__(self, Filename, WindowName):

#load glade file.

self.widgets = gtk.glade.XML(Filename, WindowName, gettext.textdomain())

self.GtkWindow = getattr(self, WindowName)

instance_attributes = {}

for attribute in dir(self.__class__):

instance_attributes[attribute] = getattr(self, attribute)

self.widgets.signal_autoconnect(instance_attributes)

def __getattr__(self, attribute): #Called when no attribute in __dict__

widget = self.widgets.get_widget(attribute)

if widget is None:

raise AttributeError("Widget [" attribute "] not found")

self.__dict__[attribute] = widget #add reference to cache