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  <info>
    <title type="text">SpinButton (Python)</title>
    <link type="guide" xref="beginner.py#entry"/>
    <link type="seealso" xref="signals-callbacks.py"/>
    <link type="next" xref="entry.py" />    
    <revision version="0.2" date="2012-06-23" status="draft"/>

    <credit type="author copyright">
      <name>Marta Maria Casetti</name>
      <email its:translate="no">mmcasetti@gmail.com</email>
      <years>2012</years>
    </credit>

    <desc>Retrieve an integer or floating-point number from the user.</desc>
  </info>

  <title>SpinButton</title>
  <media type="image" mime="image/png" src="media/spinbutton.png"/>
  <p>Choose a number, by entering it or by clicking on the -/+ buttons!</p>

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  <section id="code">
    <title>Code used to generate this example</title>
    <code mime="text/x-python" style="numbered"><xi:include href="samples/spinbutton.py" parse="text"><xi:fallback/></xi:include></code>
  </section>

  <section id="methods">
    <title>Useful methods for a SpinButton widget</title>
    <p>A Gtk.Adjustment is needed to construct the Gtk.SpinButton. This is the representation of a value with a lower and upper bound, together with step and page increments, and a page size, and it is constructed as <code>Gtk.Adjustment(value, lower, upper, step_increment, page_increment, page_size)</code> where the fields are of type <code>float</code>; <code>step_increment</code> is the increment/decrement that is obtained by using the cursor keys or the buttons of the spinbutton. Note that <code>page_increment</code> and <code>page_size</code> are not used in this case, and they should be set to <code>0</code>.</p>
    <p>In line 23 the signal <code>"value-changed"</code> is connected to the callback function <code>spin_selected()</code> using <code><var>widget</var>.connect(<var>signal</var>, <var>callback function</var>)</code>. See <link xref="signals-callbacks.py"/> for a more detailed explanation.</p>
    <list>
      <item><p>If you want the value of the spinbutton to wrap around when they exceed the maximum or the minimum, set <code>set_wrap(True)</code>. The <code>"wrapped"</code> signal is emitted when this happens.</p></item>
      <item><p><code>set_digits(digits)</code> sets the precision to be displayed by the spinbutton, up to 20 digits.</p></item>
      <item><p>To get the value of the spinbutton as an integer, use <code>get_value_as_int()</code>.</p></item>
    </list>
  </section>

  <section id="references">
    <title>API References</title>
    <p>In this sample we used the following:</p>
    <list>
      <item><p><link href="http://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/unstable/GtkSpinButton.html">GtkSpinButton</link></p></item>
      <item><p><link href="http://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/unstable/GtkAdjustment.html">GtkAdjustment</link></p></item>
    </list>
  </section>
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