On 20/06/13 16:11, Matt D wrote:
right make a small sample app. exactly. im sorry if im dense or
whatever and obviously i am super new to this process. but i can write
the scripts in gedit and then what? how do i run that file and make the
gui start? should i be doing something like this?:
execfile('filename.py')
Probably not. You could just run the GUI directly:
python guifile.py
Then just play with it. If you define the eventhandlers
to print messages you can see which method is getting
called by each widget etc. But you won;t be using
the >>> prompt.
If you really want to drive it from the interpreter - maybe
to examine status fields etc - then the best thing is to make the
GUI a class and then import your file and create an instance of
it. You can then send messages to the object to exercise its
behaviour.
# file testGUI.py
class MyGUI
def __init__(self):
self.buildGUI()
def eventHandler_1(self):
# do something in response to event1
# maybe print a message or log the GUI data in a file
def eventHandler_2(self):
# same for event 2 etc...
def buildGUI(self):
# build your GUI here including your tab.
# bind any widgets to use the event handlers defined above
Now, in the interpreter:
>>> import testGUI
>>> app = testGUI.MyGUI() # GUI should appear for you to play with
>>> app.eventHandler_1() # test the event handlers independent of GUI
>>> print app.myVariable # check a GUI variable value
Does that help?
PS.
Not sure how this will come through. Thunderbird has changed font colour
half way through and I can't figure out how to change it back - which
makes me suspicious!
--
Alan G
Author of the Learn to Program web site
http://www.alan-g.me.uk/
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