On Friday 04 September 2009 12:22:26 pm jpoorra...@aol.com wrote:
> Dabo ones.
>
> We're back to trying to integrate forms together using a menu, and we're up
> against a number of obstacles. Last Friday Ed, Paul and John had helpful
> suggestions on how to proceed, but we're not quite getting it.
>
> For now, we've decided to go with the quickStart structure. We want to
> start up a mainForm that has a logo on it but doesn't do much else. From
> the menu at the top of the screen, we want to be able to launch forms that
> we've created with the ClassDesigner.
>
> How do we add our forms to the Menu? We've been trying to use the code from
> the AppWizard app that adds forms to the File/Open menu, with no success.
>
> First, we wanted to see if we could add things to the menu in the
> quickstart structure, . We put a form file called "FrmRuns.py" (created by
> the appWizard) into our ui directory.
>
> Our main program looks like this:
>
> #!/usr/bin/env python
> # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
> import dabo
> dabo.ui.loadUI("wx")
>
> app = dabo.dApp()
>
> # IMPORTANT! Change app.MainFormClass value to the name
> # of the form class that you want to run when your
> # application starts up.
> app.MainFormClass = "randp.cdxml" #dabo.ui.dFormMain
>
> app.setup()
> app.start()
>
> This the same as the standard quickstart main.py, except that we added
> app.setup() before the start(), since we figured that setup would call the
> _initModuleNames function that loads forms in the .\ui directory into the
> app, including the above mentioned FrmRuns.py
>
> Then we added code from MenFileOpen.py from the appWizard to the afterInit
> method of our main form "randp.cdxml" Here's the code we put in the form's
> afterInit:
>
> ## *!* ## Dabo Code ID: dForm-top
> def afterInit(self):
> app = self.Application
> autoHotKeys = True
>
> # Define the forms you want in your open menu here. Insert a ("-", None)
> # tuple and the code below will insert a separator in its place.
> Explicitly # set up which character has the hotkey by adding a & in front
> of it and # by turning off the autoHotKeys flag.
>
> forms = (("Runs", app.ui.FrmRuns),
> ("-", None),
> )
>
> for form in forms:
> caption = form[0]
> if caption == "-":
> # insert separator instead:
> self.appendSeparator()
> else:
> if autoHotKeys and "&" not in caption:
> caption = "&%s" % caption
> plainCaption = caption.replace("&", "")
> itm = dabo.ui.dMenuItem(self, Caption=caption,
> HelpText="Open the %s module" % plainCaption,
> Tag=form[1])
> itm.bindEvent(dEvents.Hit, self.openForm)
> self.appendItem(itm)
>
>
> Running python randp.py, we get the error:
>
> 'module' object has no attribute 'FrmRuns'
>
> So, clearly, the _intModuleNames isn't picking up this form.
>
> The second, more serious problem for us is still how we can load our CD
> designed cdxml forms into the app.ui so we can call them from a menu.
>
> Ed suggested using the dabo.ui.createForm function, but his example
> instantiates the form as the name MyForm. How can we append the form to the
> app.ui as an attribute, which is what the dApp._initModuleNames apparently
> does? Could it be as simple as App.ui.FrmRuns =
> dabo.ui.createForm("ui\FrmRuns.cdxml")?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jonathan Poor
I'm a little confused where you want to place the menu items. I think you want
them under the "File" of the menu.
mb = self.Form.MenuBar
fileMenu = mb.getMenu("File")
ModuleMenu = dabo.ui.dMenu(Caption="Select Module")
ModuleMenu.append('SomeForm',help='Open SomeForm', OnHit=self.loadSomeForm)
fileMenu.insertMenu(1, ModuleMenu)
def loadSomeForm(self,evt):
frm=dabo.ui.createForm('somestring')
frm.show()
all this depends on when you add the menu to the form. I often do it in
afterInitAll()
Johnf
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