Question

I am experiencing different behaviour on the same code using the python console and a python script.

The code is as follows:

import gtk
import webkit
win = gtk.Window()
win.show()
web = webkit.WebView()
win.add(web)
web.show()
web.open("http://www.google.com")

When running the code in the python console, the output is a new frame that contains the google main page.

When running the code as a script, the result is a void frame. It closes very fast but even if I use a delay function, the webkit is not added to the frame.

How is it possible?

Furthermore, using PyDev IDE it flags: “unresolved import: gtk”,
but if i run the project, the program starts without problem of compilation. is it normal?

Answer 1

Add

gtk.main()

to the end of your script. This starts the gtk event loop.

---

import gtk
import webkit

class App(object):
    def __init__(self):
        win = gtk.Window()
        win.connect("destroy", self.destroy)
        web = webkit.WebView()
        web.open("http://www.google.com")
        win.add(web)
        web.show()
        win.show()
    def destroy(self, widget, data = None):
        gtk.main_quit()
app = App()
gtk.main()