For my Calendar desklet, i've been deveoping the ability to add todos, reminders, etc to dates on the calendar by clicking on the coressponding cells. However, to actually add the data, I need some kind of input dialogue box, which is what I've been trying to do in PyGTK.

I've been trying for a while now to be able to create a GTK text entry box, a little panel that has a save and cancel button and a text edit widget that contains the current text for that date. When either button is pressed, the box should close, returning the new text for saving. However, I must be doing something wrong.

While I can get a dialogue box up and running, using the buttons locks up the program. Closing the window does not. Also, I tried using the self.block self.unblock around the event section that triggers the dialogues popping up but it seems to work a little strange. Instead of throwing away the clicks, it seems to queue them, opening multiple dialogues once the initial one closes. This locks up the desklet as well.

Essentially, the desklet grabs an event and the relevent data, ie:
Gets date from click position
Checks todo/reminder file for an entry for that date
Blocks events
Passes date and entry text to PyGTK dialogue
Dialogue processes data, returns it if changed
Saves data back into todo/reminder file
Unblocks events

So, is it really possible to use PyGTK within a desklet without breaking things badly, or is it just me? :P

I've been having a go at Tkinter, but then I discovered when I tested that I don't have Tkinter support in my python installation, so I'll rebuild sooner or later and give it a go.

I'd like to use PyGTK though because I want to learn it for use in other things, plus GTK widgets generally looks nicer than Tk widgets. I might do it in both so that people without PyGTK can use it. For now though, I'll have a go at hacking at Tkinter and I'll make a GTK version later if I can.