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

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

      type="guide" style="task"

      id="switch.py">

  <info>

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

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

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

    <revision version="0.1" date="2012-05-24" 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 "light switch" style toggle</desc>

  </info>

  <title>Switch</title>

  <media type="image" mime="image/png" style="floatend" src="media/switch_off.png"/>

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

  
This Switch makes the title appears and disappear.

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  <section id="code">

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

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

  </section>

  <section id="methods">

    <title>Useful methods for a Switch widget</title>

    
In line 17 the signal "notify::active" is connected to the callback function activate_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:

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

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

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

    </list>

  </section>

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