wiki:pyclutter_notes

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Python-Clutter development notes

ModRana? will in the future use Clutter as an alternative to the current non-accelerated GTK GUI. Unfortunately, the documentation to the Python bindings for Clutter is in a sad state. This page serves as a compilation of various Clutter & Python related development notes, with the hope to piece together some sort of documentation for the most needed elements :)

NOTE: all of this information concerns Python bindings for Clutter 1.0

Gathered resources

documentation from various sources ==

official incomplete documentation, taken from the Debian:[br] See http://www.modrana.org/pyclutter for the package.[br] official documentation improved by Paolo Marti, from his GitHub page:[br] http://www.modrana.org/pyclutter_marti[br]

issues

actors not getting motion notify events

Call set_reactive(True) on the actor and it will start receiving motion notify events. Clutter does this probably as an optimization, eq. it has to handle the motion notify event only for actors that request it.

available methods

clutter GTK viewport methods

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