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view engine/extensions/pychan/__init__.py @ 251:92c7ce181881
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# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- """\ Pythonic Guichan Wrapper - PyChan ================================= Pythonic GUI API. Features -------- - Simpler Interface - Very Basic XML Format support - Basic Layout Engine - Pseudo-Synchronous Dialogs. - Automagic background tiling (WIP) - Basic Styling support. - Simple Font Handling TODO ---- - Make setting parent attribute imply containment relation. - Finalize Widget.execute - Documentation ( Allways not enough :-( ) - Handle Image Fonts - Move Font config files to XML, too ... - Implement real Menus - Implement StackWidget - Then implement TabWidget - GridLayout - Table BUGS ---- - Focus problems with Widget.execute. - Font.glyph_spacing is rendered incorrectly. - Is this a bug? At least inconvenient. MouseEntered events are not distributed for freshly shown widget. - It just looks bad. Problems -------- - Reference counting problems again -sigh- ... and thus possible leaks. - High amount of code reuse -> Complex code - Needs at least new style classes and other goodies. - Missing documentation on: - Styling - ScrollArea - Fonts How to use ========== At its core you only need a few functions. After setting up FIFE you need to initalize pychan. After that you can load a GUI from an XML file. Please see the documentation of L{loadXML} for the details of the XML format :: import pychan pychan.init(fifeEngine) guiElement = pychan.loadXML("contents/gui/myform.xml") The resulting guiElement can be shown and hidden with the obvious L{widgets.Widget.show} and L{widgets.Widget.hide} methods. To get a specific widget you have to give it a name in the XML definition and use that to extract the widget from the returned GUI element. :: okButton = guiElement.findChild(name="okButton") myInput = guiElement.findChild(name="myInput") The data is extracted and set via direct attribute access. These are using the python property technique to hide behind the scenes manipulations. Please keep in mind that the Layout engine and the exact way the widgets are displayed is somewhat limited. :: myInput.text = "Blahblah" myList.items = ["1","2"] guiElement.position = (80,90) A dialog without an OK button would be futile - so here's how you hook widget events to function calls. Every widget has a L{widgets.Widget.capture} method, which will directly call the passed function when an widget event occurs. As a convenience a L{widgets.Widget.mapEvents} function will batch the L{widgets.Widget.findChild} and L{widgets.Widget.capture} calls in an obvious way. :: myButton.capture( application.quit ) guiElement.mapEvents({ 'okButton' : self.applyAndClose, 'closeButton': guiElement.hide }) Other important places to look for information: - L{widgets.Widget} - Attributes explained. - L{loadXML} - Explain the XML format. - L{widgets.layout.LayoutBase} - Working of the layout engine. Initialization, data distribution and collection ================================================ Very often a dialogs text fields, labels and listboxes have to be filled with data after the creation of the dialog. This can be a tiresome process. After a dialog has executed, B{other} attributes have to be read out again, this to can be tiresome. PyChan simplifies both processes. But it treats them as three processes. One is setting the data that will never be read out again - called B{initial data} - the text of a checkbox or the list of a listBox are good examples. The second is setting the data that is mutable by the user and may be read out again - for example the state of a checkbox or the selected index in a list. The third and final process is collection of the user-mutable data:: guiElement.distributeInitialData({ 'myListBox' : choices, 'myLabel' : map.name, }) guiElement.distributeData({ 'myTextField' : map.description }) # ... process dialog. map.description, choice = guiElement.collectData('myListBox','myTextField') print "You selected:",choice,", good choice!" See L{widgets.Widget.distributeData},L{widgets.Widget.distributeInitialData}, L{widgets.Widget.collectData} and L{widgets.Widget.collectDataAsDict}. Styling and font handling ========================= Note: These features are B{work in progress} and likely to change. A style is a set of rules for matching widgets and a set of attributes applied to them after creation. The attributes can be any of the given attributes. Matching happens currently only by the widget class name itself. As an example the following style - written as a python data structure - will set the border size of all labels to 10:: style = { 'ListBox' : { # Matches all listboxes 'border_size : 10 # After creation call lisbox.border_size = 10 } } As a convenience you can use the string B{default} to match all widget classes and thus - for example apply a common font:: style = { 'default' : { 'font' : 'console_small' } } A new style is added to pychan with L{internal.Manager.addStyle}. You can set a new default style by adding a style with the name 'default'. The font is set via a string identifier pulled from a font definition in a PyChan configuration file. You have to load these by calling L{loadFonts} in your startup code:: import pychan pychan.init( fifeEngine ) pychan.loadFonts( "content/fonts/console.fontdef" ) The font definition files are in the following format:: [Font/FIRST_FONT_NAME] type: truetype source: path/to/font.ttf # The font size in point size: 30 [Font/SECOND_FONT_NAME] type: truetype source: content/fonts/samanata.ttf size: 8 # And so on. I hope the example is clear enough ... Other options you can set: - color: A list of comma separated integers from 0 to 255. White (255,255,255) by default. - antialias: Zero or one - enable or disable antialialising. Enabled by default. - row_spacing: Extra height per row. Default is 0. - glyph_spacing: Extra space per glyph. Default is 0. B{Currently buggy in the engine!} Unicode and internationalisation ================================ All text that is visible and editable by the player has to be a unicode object. All text that is used internally, e.g. widget names, have to be normal strings. While PyChan will not raise an exception, if you do not follow this guideline, you are encouraged to so. You can change the way unicode encoding errors are handled by using the function L{setUnicodePolicy}. Widget hierachy =============== Every widget can be contained in another container widget like L{Window}, L{VBox}, L{HBox}, L{Container} or L{ScrollArea}. Container widgets can contain any number of widgets. Thus we have a tree like structure of the widgets - which finally makes up the window or frame that is placed on the screen. In PyChan widgets are supposed to be manipulated via the root of this hierachy, so that the actual layout can be changed in the XML files without hassle. It can be compared to how HTML works. These bits and pieces connect things up:: - name - A (hopefully) unique name in the widget hierachy - findChildren - The accessor method to find widgets by name or any other attribute. - _parent - The parent widget in the widget hierachy - deepApply - The method used to walk over the widget hierachy. You have to reimplement this in case you want to provide custom widgets. Wrapping machinery ================== The wrapping mechanism works be redirecting attribute access to the Widget derived classes to a C{real_widget} member variable which in turn is an instance of the SWIG wrapped Guichan widget. To ensure the real widget has already been constructed, when the wrapping machinery is already in use, this has to be the first attribute to set in the constructors. This leads to a reversed construction sequence as the super classes constructor has to be invoked I{after} the subclass specific construction has taken place. """ __all__ = [ 'loadXML', 'loadFonts', 'init', 'manager' ] # For epydoc import widgets import widgets.ext # This *import should really be removed! from widgets import * from exceptions import * from fonts import loadFonts ### Initialisation ### manager = None def init(engine,debug=False): """ This has to be called before any other pychan methods can be used. It sets up a manager object which is available under pychan.manager. @param engine: The FIFE engine object. """ from compat import _munge_engine_hook from internal import Manager global manager manager = Manager(_munge_engine_hook(engine),debug) # XML Loader from xml.sax import saxutils, handler from traceback import print_exc def traced(f): """ Simple decorator that prints tracebacks for any exceptions occuring in a function. Useful to avoid the infamous 'finally pops bad exception' that shadows the real cause of the error ... """ def traced_f(*args,**kwargs): try: return f(*args,**kwargs) except: print_exc() raise return traced_f class _GuiLoader(object, handler.ContentHandler): def __init__(self): super(_GuiLoader,self).__init__() self.root = None self.indent = "" self.stack = [] def _printTag(self,name,attrs): if not manager.debug: return attrstrings = map(lambda t: '%s="%s"' % tuple(map(unicode,t)),attrs.items()) tag = "<%s " % name + " ".join(attrstrings) + ">" print self.indent + tag def _resolveTag(self,name): """ Resolve a XML Tag to a PyChan GUI class. """ cls = WIDGETS.get(name,None) if cls is None and name == "Spacer": cls = Spacer if cls is None: raise GuiXMLError("Unknown GUI Element: %s" % name) return cls def _setAttr(self,obj,name,value): if not hasattr(obj.__class__,'ATTRIBUTES'): raise PyChanException("The registered widget/spacer class %s does not supply an 'ATTRIBUTES'." % repr(obj)) try: for attr in obj.ATTRIBUTES: if attr.name == name: attr.set(obj,value) return except GuiXMLError, e: raise GuiXMLError("Error parsing attr '%s'='%s' for '%s': '%s'" % (name,value,obj,e)) raise GuiXMLError("Unknown GUI Attribute '%s' on '%s'" % (name,repr(obj))) def startElement(self, name, attrs): self._printTag(name,attrs) cls = self._resolveTag(name) if issubclass(cls,Widget): self.stack.append('gui_element') self._createInstance(cls,name,attrs) elif cls == Spacer: self.stack.append('spacer') self._createSpacer(cls,name,attrs) else: self.stack.append('unknown') self.indent += " "*4 def _createInstance(self,cls,name,attrs): obj = cls(parent=self.root) for k,v in attrs.items(): self._setAttr(obj,k,v) if self.root: self.root.addChild( obj ) self.root = obj def _createSpacer(self,cls,name,attrs): obj = cls(parent=self.root) for k,v in attrs.items(): self._setAttr(obj,k,v) if hasattr(self.root,'add'): self.root.addSpacer(obj) else: raise GuiXMLError("A spacer needs to be added to a container widget!") self.root = obj def endElement(self, name): self.indent = self.indent[:-4] if manager.debug: print self.indent + "</%s>" % name if self.stack.pop() in ('gui_element','spacer'): self.root = self.root._parent or self.root def loadXML(filename_or_stream): """ Loads a PyChan XML file and generates a widget from it. @param filename_or_stream: A filename or a file-like object (for example using StringIO). The XML format is very dynamic, in the sense, that the actual allowed tags and attributes depend on the PyChan code. So when a tag C{Button} is encountered, an instance of class Button will be generated, and added to the parent object. All attributes will then be parsed and then set in the following way: - position,size,min_size,max_size,margins - These are assumed to be comma separated tuples of integers. - foreground_color,base_color,background_color - These are assumed to be triples or quadruples of comma separated integers. (triples: r,g,b; quadruples: r,g,b,a) - opaque,border_size,padding - These are assumed to be simple integers. All other attributes are set verbatim as strings on the generated instance. In case a Widget does not accept an attribute to be set or the attribute can not be parsed correctly, the function will raise a GuiXMLError. In short:: <VBox> <Button text="X" min_size="20,20" base_color="255,0,0" border_size="2" /> </VBox> This result in the following code executed:: vbox = VBox(parent=None) button = Button(parent=vbox) button.text = "X" button.min_size = (20,20) button.base_color = (255,0,0) button.border_size = 2 vbox.add( button ) """ from xml.sax import parse loader = _GuiLoader() parse(filename_or_stream,loader) return loader.root def setupModalExecution(mainLoop,breakFromMainLoop): """ Setup the synchronous dialog execution feature. You can enable synchronous dialog execution by passing to functions to this function. @param mainLoop: Function - This is regarded as the applications main loop, which should be able to be called recursively. It should not take no arguments and return the argument passed to the second function (breakFromMainLoop). @param breakFromMainLoop: Function -This function should cause the first function to finish and return the passed argument. With these to functions dialogs can be executed synchronously. See L{widgets.Widget.execute}. """ if not manager: raise InitializationError("PyChan is not initialized yet.") manager.setupModalExecution(mainLoop,breakFromMainLoop) def setUnicodePolicy(*policy): """ Set the unicode error handling policy. Possible options are: - 'strict' meaning that encoding errors raise a UnicodeEncodeError. - 'ignore' all encoding errors will be silently ignored. - 'replace' all errors are replaced by the next argument. For further information look at the python documentation, especially L{codecs.register_error}. Example:: pychan.setUnicodePolicy('replace','?') """ if not manager: raise InitializationError("PyChan is not initialized yet.") manager.unicodePolicy = policy