xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its"

      xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"

      type="guide" style="task"

      id="aboutdialog.py">

  <info>

    <title type="text">AboutDialog (Python)</title>

    <link type="guide" xref="beginner.py#windows"/>

    <link type="next" xref="messagedialog.py"/>

    <revision version="0.1" date="2012-06-11" status="draft"/>

    <credit type="author copyright">

      <name>Marta Maria Casetti</name>

      <email its:translate="no">mmcasetti@gmail.com</email>

      <years>2012</years>

    </credit>

    <desc>A window that displays information about an application</desc>

  </info>

  <title>AboutDialog</title>

  <media type="image" mime="image/png" src="media/aboutdialog_GMenu.png"/>

  
An AboutDialog example using Gtk.ApplicationWindow and Menu (the "about" is displayed if "About" in the menu is selected).

  <links type="section" />

  <section id="code">

  <title>Code used to generate this example</title>

  <xi:include href="samples/aboutdialog.py" parse="text"><xi:fallback/></xi:include>

  </section>

  <section id="methods">

  <title>Useful methods for an AboutDialog widget</title>

    
In line 15 the signal "activate" is connected to the callback function about_cb() using widget.connect(signal, callback function). See <link xref="signals-callbacks.py"/> for a more detailed explanation.

  </section>

  <section id="references">

  <title>API References</title>

    In this sample we used the following:

  <list>

    <item>
<link href="http://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/unstable/GtkAboutDialog.html">GtkAboutDialog</link>
</item>

    <item>
<link href="http://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/unstable/GtkApplicationWindow.html">GtkApplicationWindow</link>
</item>

    <item>
<link href="http://developer.gnome.org/gio/stable/GMenu.html">GMenu</link>
</item>

    <item>
<link href="http://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/unstable/GtkApplication.html">GtkApplication</link>
</item>

  </list>

  </section>

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