PmwContribD Source Documentation

PmwContribD Contributed Tk Mega-Widgets

This library consists of several Pmw-based Tkinter widgets including a ProgressMeter, basic TreeNavigator and a GUI application framework for creating simple GUI apps quickly.

See the home page for more details about the package contents.

See the Pmw site for more details about Pmw.

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Introduction

The complete documentation for all files and classes is below. This section gives a higher level description of a few components of PmwContribD to get you started.

Support Classes

Not all of the classes in the library are GUI components.

UserPrefs: A class for managing user preferences in a preferences file.
GuiAppD: An extensive, but simple, GUI application framework. Many of the powerful Tk features are available directly as methods. Many Pmw or PmwContribD widgets are available automatically (for instance PrefsDialog and HelpTree). Remove the drudge-work of creating a Tk application by subclassing GuiAppD and filling in the blanks.

Dialogs

PrefsDialog: The PrefsDialog automatically builds a GUI to let the user edit preferences managed by a UserPrefs class. Look at the Whacky Chat client sample application to see how this is used.
FontChooserDialog: The FontChooserDialog provides a UI for interactively changing a Tk font specification. The user sees a preview of the font they are selecting.
TagAttributeChooserDialog: The TagAttributeChooserDialog extends the FontChooserDialog and adds a tab for editing the extra attributes available for tag faces in the Tk Text widget.
ProgressDialog: Typical dialog for showing a ProgressBar or ProgressDial.

Widgets

MCScrolledListBox: A scrolled list with multiple columns. Supports various selection modes. Display and selection values are sequences of tuples (no formatting or parsing!).
TreeNavigator or TreeExplorer: Simple widgets to display and manipulate tree data structures.
PipeOutputWindow: A wrapper for shell commands that allows the face for each command output line to be selected based on a regular expression.

Installation

PmwContribD now uses the Distutils installation system. To install the package, run:

    % python setup.py install

with the appropriate priviledges.

Modules and Packages

PmwContribD-r2_0_1/

README.txt.html	PmwContribD Contributed Tk Mega-Widgets
TODO.html	PmwContribD To Do List
AnimatedFileIcon	A file icon which can be used by the TreeNavigator.
AnimatedFolder	A folder icon which can be used by the TreeNavigator.
AnimatedIcon	Base class for icons to be used by the TreeNavigator.
CanvasGroup	A subclass of Canvas.Group that knows how to do bbox.
ConnectedBox	A HandledBox which can be connected to another HandledBox.
DelayedCreatePage	Subclassable version of the page for a Pmw.NoteBookR.
DisplayField	Widget to display a value with a label.
FontChooserDialog	A dialog class for choosing a font specification.
GuiAppD	GUI application framework providing many common GUI services.
HandledBox	A canvas object subclassed from ShadowBox, which adds handles.
HelpTree	Use the NavigableTree class to build a HelpTree class.
MCScrolledListBox	Multi-column scrolled list box.
NavigableTree	Tree data structure to be used with TreeNavigator widget.
OptionColorButton	Button which controls a color chooser dialog.
OptionFontButton	Button which controls a font chooser dialog.
OptionFontSelector	Font selector dialog.
OptionToggle	Special toggle button for use in option dialogs.
PipeOutputWindow	Display output of a piped command with optional colorization.
PrefsDialog	Preferences dialog used by GuiAppD.
ProgressDialog	A Pmw style dialog for showing the progress being made on a task.
ProgressMeter	A Pmw style widget for showing the progress being made on a task.
ScrolledST	Scrolled StructuredText display widget.
ShadowBox	A canvas object which draws a box around something.
SimpleTable	Defines a basic (rather memory intensive) table widget.
StructuredText	Structured Text Manipulation
Table	A Table widget for displaying tabular data.
TagAttributeChooserDialog	Dialog for defining all of the attributes of a text tag style.
TestCases	PmwContribD Source Documentation: TestCases
TreeExplorer	For exploring the contents of a tree data structure.
TreeNavigator	A Pmw style widget for navigating the contents of a tree data structure.
UserPrefs	User preference management.
colormath	Functions to compute color shadows, light and dark.
cvsversion	Get the CVS version information based on the $Name: r2_0_1 $ token.
displaygrid	A widget to display a collection of sequences in a grid.
geometrystring	Geometry string parser for Tkinter.
marquee	Utility functions/classes for dealing with marquee screen
setup	Distutils setup file for PmwContribD
ts_regex	Provide a thread-safe interface to regex

PmwContribD-r2_0_1/SampleApps/

redemo2

Extension of Guido's regular expression demonstration utility.

PmwContribD-r2_0_1/SampleApps/WhackyChat/Client/

README.txt.html	WhackyChat Instant Messaging
TODO.html	WhackyChat Client To Do List
wcc_client	GUI Client to talk to a WackyChat server.
wcc_dialog	Messaging dialog.
wcc_options	Defines options for WhackyChat client.
wcc_protocol	Class to handle protocol for wacky server.
wcc_quickwacky	Privide a command line interface to send a quick wacky message
wcc_status	Class to get status information from a WIMD connection.

PmwContribD-r2_0_1/SampleApps/WhackyChat/Server/

README.txt.html	WhackyChat Instant Messaging
TODO.html	WhackyChat Server To Do List
CommandLineApp	Base class for building command line applications.
wimd	WhackyChat server program
wimd_defaults	Default values to be used by wimd.py.
wimd_pwfile	Read a WhackyChat server password file.
wimd_server	Server and connection objects for WIMD protocol.
wimd_user_add

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