Settings divided in tabs

[krambriw]

Hi,

Has someone experience in how to divide/split settings in a configuration dialogue for a plug-in or action into a tabbed view?

Using as example wx.Notebook???

I have too many settings in the view and need to clean up/organise it better

Best regards, Walter

[stottle]

You probably had a hard time finding info because you were searching the wrong terms. wxWidgets calls them notebooks, not tabs. Here's some info.

Brett

[krambriw]

Brett, thanks, I did find that page in the meantime

Hope you can advice me further with my next steps

I have attached a simple working plug-in sample based on the one that is described at our forum in the developer documentation and with the addition of a wx.Notebook in the settings for the action

From here I would like to do the following:

- make it possible to use eg's own SpinIntCtrl and SpinNumCtrl on the notebook pages
- have action settings distributed on several notebook pages and return them back to the action class when changed

Any advice is very appreciated

Best regards & thanks for your help,
Walter

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[stottle]

Walter,

Sorry, I'm not an expert on wxWidgets. Here's the best I can offer.

- make it possible to use eg's own SpinIntCtrl and SpinNumCtrl on the notebook pages
- have action settings distributed on several notebook pages and return them back to the action class when changed

#1 I don't think is a problem, as eg's UI classes are just wrappers around the wxWidgets classes.
#2 is more tricky. The problem is that the notebook tabs aren't instantiated until they are opened. So any variables defined on them won't be assigned unless the user actually looks at the tab. Now since the plugin passes in all of the initial values, you should be ok using them (they are non-local variables). Just make sure the settings effect the non-local values and I think you'll be ok.

Brett

[krambriw]

#1 I don't think is a problem, as eg's UI classes are just wrappers around the wxWidgets classes

When I try to add something like p = self.SpinIntCtrl(....) in one of the wx.Panel classes I get an error message that it is not an attribute of the page object

Also p = eg.SpinIntCtrl(....) gives a lot of error messages

#2 is more tricky. The problem is that the notebook tabs aren't instantiated until they are opened. So any variables

Do you have a code sample? Shall I have the action variables in the init of the page? Like
def __init__(self, parent, action.Variable1, action.Variable2, etc)

I feel I'm not clever enough for this...

It would be so simple, and it would make sense, that the eg.ConfigPanel would support multiple tabs itself....

Best regards & thanks,
Walter

[stottle]

Sorry, I can't provide much more help without building it myself. I'm not an expert in wxWidgets.

Also p = eg.SpinIntCtrl(....) gives a lot of error messages

This would be the form you need.

Do you have a code sample?

Check out EG's about dialog class, it uses a notebook.

Shall I have the action variables in the init of the page? Like
def __init__(self, parent, action.Variable1, action.Variable2, etc)

I'm not sure what you mean by action.Variable one.

A simple class might look like this:

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class MyAction(eg.ActionClass):
    name = "MyAction"
    description = "Does my action"

    def __call__(self, myString="Hello"):
        print myString
    def Configure(self, myString="Hello"):
        panel = eg.ConfigPanel(self)
        ....
        while panel.Affirmed():
            panel.SetResult(ctrl.GetValue())

In this case, ctrl is whichever control you have the let's the user set the value. The problem is that if that control is part of a tab that isn't opened, it won't be defined.

So instead, you need to bind the control to a function that sets (in my example) myString = ctrl.GetValue(). You know ctrl will exist, because the bound function won't be called unless the tab is open. And since myString isn't local, it will be available for panel.SetResult:

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        while panel.Affirmed():
            panel.SetResult(myString)

Get the idea?

Brett

[krambriw]

Thanks Brett, I'm actually giving up on this trial, I could not make it work even after extensive attempts...

Another approach which I think would also be better is to see if one could modify the ConfigPanel.py to support multiple setting pages

It was fairly easy to add another page simply by adding this line

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        dialog.notebook.AddPage(self, "SettingsII")

However, next problem would be to define on what page the various settings should "land"

With something like this in my dreams

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panel = eg.ConfigPanel(3) #The number defines the number of setting pages to initiate
.
.
.
    panel(0).sizer.Add(sizer_0, 0, wx.EXPAND)
    panel(1).sizer.Add(sizer_1, 0, wx.EXPAND)
    panel(2).sizer.Add(sizer_2, 0, wx.EXPAND)

...but I believe this will be impossible now when Bitmonster says he left the project


Best regards, Walter

[stottle]

You may not be aware, I am creating a fork of EventGhost. One of the changes is to switch from wxWidgets to PyQt. Couple nice things about PyQt
it has a nice UI (Qt Designer) for building your own UIs
the syntax is (in my opinion) cleaner. Bitmonster created a bunch of small wrapper classes about wx widgets - this isn't necessary with PyQt, I just use their classes. So there's no need to modify the core to build what you want

So I agree that adding notebooks to the EG core probably won't happen, there should be another option at some point.

Brett

[krambriw]

Hi Brett, sounds interesting

BTW I hope you preserve the backward compatibility. Would be nice (required) that existing eg plugins will work without modification

BestR Walter