Commonly Forgotten

It took me way too long, but now I know how to handle the value-changed event of GtkScale.

In Glade:

1. Create a GtkScale widget. We will ID it foo_scale.
2. In the Signals -> GtkRange -> value-changed line change the Handler field to something sensible like on_foo_scale_value_changed. That will be the name of the handler.

3. Make a new Adjustment in:

   General -> Adjustment -> (little pen button in the field) -> Choose a [sic] Adjustment in this project -> New

4. Rename the adjustment to something sensible like foo_adjustment and set the Value, Minimum Value, Maximum Value, etc. Those are kind of self explanatory…

5. In Python, your handler will be called with a single argument - the signal emitting object, which is the GtkScale object itself. It has a method, get_value(), used to get its current value:

   python def on_foo_scale_value_changed(emitter): scale_value = emitter.get_value() do_stuff_with_scale_value(scale_value)

Fin.