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+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+
+# ####################################################################
+#  Copyright (C) 2005-2009 by the FIFE team
+#  http://www.fifengine.de
+#  This file is part of FIFE.
+#
+#  FIFE is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+#  modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
+#  License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
+#  version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+#
+#  This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+#  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+#  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
+#  Lesser General Public License for more details.
+#
+#  You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
+#  License along with this library; if not, write to the
+#  Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
+#  51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA
+# ####################################################################
+
+from fife import fife
+from fife.extensions.pychan import tools
+from fife.extensions.pychan import events
+from fife.extensions.pychan.exceptions import *
+from fife.extensions.pychan.attrs import Attr,UnicodeAttr, PointAttr,ColorAttr,BoolAttr,IntAttr,FloatAttr
+from fife.extensions.pychan.properties import ColorProperty
+
+AlignTop, AlignBottom, AlignLeft, AlignRight, AlignCenter = range(5)
+
+def get_manager():
+	from fife.extensions import pychan
+	return pychan.manager
+
+def text2gui(text):
+	"""
+	This function is applied to all text set on widgets.
+	It replaces tabs by four spaces.
+	It assumes the text to be a unicode object.
+	"""
+	if not isinstance(text,unicode):
+		print "Widget text needs to be set from an unicode object. Got: '%s'" % repr(text)
+		text = unicode(text,"utf8")
+	return text.encode("utf8",*get_manager().unicodePolicy).replace("\t"," "*4).replace("[br]","\n")
+
+def gui2text(text):
+	"""
+	This function is applied to all text get from widgets.
+	Translates the encoded string into a unicode object.
+	"""
+	return unicode(text,"utf8",*get_manager().unicodePolicy)
+	
+def gui2str(text):
+	"""
+	This function returns an 8-bit representation of the
+	unicode string. This is useful for passing strings
+	to SWIG functions.
+	"""
+	try: 
+		return text.__str__()
+	except:
+		# String contains non-ascii characters
+		return text.encode("utf-8")
+
+def isLayouted(widget):
+	from layout import LayoutBase
+	return isinstance(widget,LayoutBase)
+