Populating a ComboBox

I'm using Glade to design my UI, which introduced some difficulty in figuring out how to populate my ComboBox (of which there are 2 versions in PyGTK). The PyGTK Tutorial was helpful, and the PyGTK IRC Channel took me the last mile.

The short of it is, a ComboBox works like a TreeView:

# create a store
weapon_store=gtk.ListStore(gobject.TYPE_STRING)
# populate the store
for w in weapon_names:
row=weapon_store.insert_after(None, None)
weapon_store.set_value(row, 0, w)
# get the Glade widget
left_hand_weapon_cbo=self.widgets.get_widget('leftHandWeapon')
left_hand_weapon_cbo.set_model(weapon_store)
# the business bit
cell=gtk.CellRendererText()
left_hand_weapon_cbo.pack_start(cell)
left_hand_weapon_cbo.add_attribute(cell, 'text', 0)
left_hand_weapon_cbo.set_wrap_width(3)

It would be nice if the Glade/PyGTK infrastructure would do more of the work of setting up the widgets with sensible defaults.

First Thoughts

Glade is quite nice apart from the GIMP-style multi window UI. It's incredibly frustrating to have a web page with instructions (or another app with a mockup) underneath Glade, then click that app and then have to raise each of the four Glade windows separately. Makes absolutely no sense. A friend of mine suggests that's what multiple desktops are for, but this is a clumsy workaround.

Found a good tutorial on Glade + Python. It's all text, and somewhat outdated, but was the most helpful of the stuff I read.