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  <info>
    <title type="text">Window (Python)</title>
    <link type="guide" xref="beginner.py#windows"/>
    <link type="seealso" xref="properties.py"/>
    <link type="next" xref="GtkApplicationWindow.py"/>
    <revision version="0.2" date="2012-06-09" status="draft"/>

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

    <desc>A toplevel window which can contain other widgets</desc>
  </info>

  <title>Window</title>

  <table>
    <tr>
      <td>
        <media type="image" mime="image/png" src="media/window.png"/>
        <p>A minimal GTK+ Application: a window with a title.</p>
      </td>
      <td>
        <p>Use <link xref="GtkApplicationWindow.py"/> if you need <link xref="gmenu.py"/> support.</p>
      </td>
    </tr>
  </table>

  <links type="section"/>

  <section id="code">
  <title>Code used to generate this example</title>

  <code mime="text/x-python" style="numbered">from gi.repository import Gtk
import sys


class MyApplication(Gtk.Application):

    def do_activate(self):
        # create a Gtk Window belonging to the application itself
        window = Gtk.Window(application=self)
        # set the title
        window.set_title("Welcome to GNOME")
        # show the window
        window.show_all()

# create and run the application, exit with the value returned by
# running the program
app = MyApplication()
exit_status = app.run(sys.argv)
sys.exit(exit_status)
</code>

  </section>

  <section id="methods">
  <title>Useful methods for a Window widget</title>
  <list>
    <item><p><code>set_default_size(200, 100)</code> sets the default size of the window to a width of <code>200</code> and a height of <code>100</code>; if instead of a positive number we pass <code>-1</code> we have the default size.</p></item>
    <item><p><code>set_position(Gtk.WindowPosition.CENTER)</code> centers the window. Other options are <code>Gtk.WindowPosition.NONE, Gtk.WindowPosition.MOUSE, Gtk.WindowPosition.CENTER_ALWAYS, Gtk.WindowPosition.CENTER_ON_PARENT</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/GtkApplication.html">GtkApplication</link></p></item>
    <item><p><link href="http://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/unstable/GtkWindow.html">GtkWindow</link></p></item>
  </list>
  </section>
</page>