jonhattan escribió:
Hi,
Stef Mientki escribió:
hello,
I want to automate the generation of my form menu:
So I'ld like to put something like this in my form
# --- text --- --- extension for "ID_" and "OnMenu_" ---
menus = {
'&File': ( ( '&New/Open\tCtrl+O', 'Open'),
( '&Save\tCtrl+S', 'Save') ),
'&Help': ( ( 'Signal WorkBench', 'Help'),
( '&About', 'About'))
}generate_menu ( self, menus )
So generate_menu looks something like this:
def generate_menu ( form, menus ) :
# Prepare the menu bar
menuBar = wx.MenuBar()for menu in menus:
menu_top = wx.Menu ()
for item in menus [ menu ] :
menu_item = menu_top.Append ( wx.ID_ANY, item[0] )
line = 'ID_' + item[1] + ' = menu_item.GetId()'
exec line
line = 'self.Bind ( wx.EVT_MENU, self.OnMenu_' + item[1]+ ',id=ID_' + item[1] + ')'
==> #exec line
line = 'menuBar.Append ( menu_top, "' + menu + '")'
exec line# apply the menubar
self.SetMenuBar ( menuBar )I'll do something as:
for menu in menus:
menu_top = wx.Menu ()
for item in menus [ menu ] :
menu_item = menu_top.Append ( wx.ID_ANY, item[0] )# the name of the attribute that will hold the menu ID
menuid = 'ID_%s' % item[1]# set the menuid attribute to self (or perhaps store it in a dict)
setattr(self, menuid, menu_item.GetId())# the name of the method to bind the menu event
menufunc = 'OnMenu_%s' % item[1]# try to get such method from self. Otherwise, the dummy method
func = getattr(self, menufunc, self.OnMenuDummy)# do the binding: we have the method to bind and the menu id
self.Bind(wx.EVT_MENU, func, item[1])
last line is wrong. correct is :
self.Bind(wx.EVT_MENU, func, menu_item.GetId())
or
self.Bind(wx.EVT_MENU, func, getattr(self, menuid))
# finally, append to the menubar
menuBar.Append ( menu_top, menu)Maybe I'm asking too much,
but I have the feeling that these kinds of automations (I've few others in my head),
should be possible in Python.You are asking an interesting question. In gui development, a lot of repetitive code is written for common tasks, think of writting data input forms. I've written a minute ago this snnipet of code for a king of "AddressCtrl" to use in my applications:
this also is wrong 
I mean a KIND of "AddressCtrl"
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#pais
l = wx.StaticText(self, -1, u"País:")
w = wx.ComboBox(self, choices = [u'España', ])
sizer.Add(l, (0, 0), flag = wx.ALIGN_RIGHT)
sizer.Add(w, (0, 1), flag = wx.EXPAND)
#provincia
l = wx.StaticText(self, -1, "Provincia:")
w = wx.ComboBox(self, choices = ['Las Palmas',], style = wx.CB_READONLY)
sizer.Add(l, (0, 2), flag = wx.ALIGN_RIGHT)
sizer.Add(w, (0, 3), flag = wx.EXPAND)
#cp
l = wx.StaticText(self, -1, "Código Postal:")
w = IntCtrl(self)
sizer.Add(l, (1, 0), flag = wx.ALIGN_RIGHT)
sizer.Add(w, (1, 1), flag = wx.EXPAND)
#población
l = wx.StaticText(self, -1, u"Población:")
w = wx.ComboBox(self, choices = ['Las Palmas de G.C.',])
sizer.Add(l, (1, 2), flag = wx.ALIGN_RIGHT)
sizer.Add(w, (1, 3), flag = wx.EXPAND)
#domicilio
l = wx.StaticText(self, -1, "Domicilio:")
w = wx.TextCtrl(self, style = wx.TE_MULTILINE, size = (0, 50))
sizer.Add(l, (2, 0), flag = wx.ALIGN_RIGHT)
sizer.Add(w, (2, 1), flag = wx.EXPAND)
sizer.SetItemSpan(w, (1, 3))this is only the basics, 4 lines for each piece of data in the form... without validators, event binding, styling,...
a total of 10 lines (being (very) generous) for each pice of data...
To avoid writting so much (DRY / WET) is one of my targets. I've written some code similar to the automated menu generation you ask.. for automated widgets creation based on a dict with decriptive info. Someday when I have the time I'll clean it up and make publicly available.greetings,
jonhattanthanks,
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