5 July 2000

I haven't written anything here for a while. I went to a friend's 21st birthday on friday, which was pretty good. The day after we went to a climbing gym. It was the first time I had gone this year, so I was a bit out of shape.

I started working on the gtk+-2.0 based pygtk. I wrote a simple module gobject that encapsulates the base GObject stuff. This also encapsulates the evil reference counting stuff away from the rest of the pygtk stuff. I have done wrappers for most of the Gdk types that have been converted to GObjects, and generated the wrappers for GtkWindow and GtkLabel to test out a few features. Interfacing with the python-2.0 unicode strings didn't require any extra code, as using the "s" format character for PyArg_ParseTuple causes the unicode string to be encoded in UTF8, which is what GTK wants. So you can do GtkLabel(u'\u03A0\u03B1\u03BD\u8A9E') and have it do exactly what you would expect. Lets see you do that in Tkinter :)