Windows File Locations

[CircuitsMan]

By mimicing the gladewin32 installation, I managed to get Symbide to
run. I had to place libglib-2.0-0.dll directly in the bin folder and
not in some subfolder. I did the same with the rest of the dll files,
but Symbide does not recognize/use the gtksourceview windows binary I
found, libgtksourceview-1.0-0.dll @ http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/gtksourceview/1.8/.

Where does libgtksourceview-1.0-0.dll need to be for Symbide to
recognize it and use it?

If Symbide/GTK+ can't find gtksourceview, it might not recognize the
rest of the dll files I placed in the bin folder. Where do all of
these dll files need to go?

Also, the Symbide window does not look as nice as when I use
gladewin32. Do you know where I can get windows application themes?
gtkrc? Art.Gnome.com has themes, but they are all tar.gz files.

- CircuitsMan

[basti]

I'm really no expert for these questions but I'll try to help you as
much as i can.

> Where does libgtksourceview-1.0-0.dll need to be for Symbide to
> recognize it and use it?

It won't be enough to have the gtksourceview binaries, you will also
need a python wrapper for it (as you need pygtk to use gtk). I've
never tried out to do anything like that, but I guess this should work
for windows similar to the way it is done by the gnome project. The
following website contains the gtksourceview wrappers:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-python-desktop/2.21/
maybe you can use them ...

>Also, the Symbide window does not look as nice as when I use
>gladewin32. Do you know where I can get windows application themes?
>gtkrc? Art.Gnome.com has themes, but they are all tar.gz files.

I found a description on this site (had no chance to try this out on
my own):
http://www.rixsoft.com/gimpwin/gtk-themes.html

If you find out something that is wrong or missing in symbides install
documentation, please send me some infos how you solved this problems
to make live easier for other windows user.

basti

[CircuitsMan]

Again, I found out how to copy Gladewin32. Changing the theme in
windows was a matter of copying the gtkrc file from C:\Program Files
\Python\gtk+-2.12.3\share\themes\MS-Windows\gtk-2.0 and pasting it
into C:\Program Files\Python\gtk+-2.12.3\etc\gtk-2.0.

Any idea where I can get other gtkrc files? All of the ones that came
with GTK look the same except the MS-Windows theme.

Also, any idea on how to change the look of the program buttons?

As for gtksourceview, I found pygtksourceview for Windows at
http://code.google.com/p/bpad/wiki/GtksourceviewForWindows. However,
I have no idea where to place the files once I download them.

- CircuitsMan

[CircuitsMan]

I found out how to get gtkrc files. Apparently (and nobody told me
this until after I found the answer myself), I needed a program such
as 7-Zip which allows me to extract tar.bz files. This may or may not
have been helpfull in my search for programs files that would work on
Windows.

My next issue is I can change the gtkrc file, but the app theme I like
most gives an error message:

C:\Program Files\Python\Lib\site-packages\symbide\src\widgets
\window.py:17: GtkWarning: Unable to locate theme engine in
module_path: "clearlooks",
gtk.Window.__init__(self, gtk.WINDOW_TOPLEVEL)

The theme I am trying to use is Clearlooks-Darknice. I know there's a
Clearlooks theme engine, but I have no idea how to install it or where
to place the files after I download them.

- CircuitsMan