apptools 4.3.0

application tools

Documentation: http://docs.enthought.com/apptools

Source Code: http://www.github.com/enthought/apptools

The apptools project includes a set of packages that Enthought has found useful in creating a number of applications. They implement functionality that is commonly needed by many applications

• apptools.appscripting: Framework for scripting applications.

• apptools.help: Provides a plugin for displaying documents and examples and running demos in Envisage Workbench applications.

• apptools.io: Provides an abstraction for files and folders in a file system.

• apptools.logger: Convenience functions for creating logging handlers

• apptools.naming: Manages naming contexts, supporting non-string data types and scoped preferences

• apptools.permissions: Supports limiting access to parts of an application unless the user is appropriately authorised (not full-blown security).

• apptools.persistence: Supports pickling the state of a Python object to a dictionary, which can then be flexibly applied in restoring the state of the object.

• apptools.preferences: Manages application preferences.

• apptools.selection: Manages the communication between providers and listener of selected items in an application.

• apptools.scripting: A framework for automatic recording of Python scripts.

• apptools.sweet_pickle: Handles class-level versioning, to support loading of saved data that exist over several generations of internal class structures.

• apptools.template: Supports creating templatizable object hierarchies.

• apptools.type_manager: Manages type extensions, including factories to generate adapters, and hooks for methods and functions.

• apptools.undo: Supports undoing and scripting application commands.

Prerequisites

All packages in apptools require:

• traits

The apptools.preferences package requires:

• configobj

Many of the packages provide optional user interfaces using Pyface and Traitsui. In additon, many of the packages are designed to work with the Envisage plug-in system, althought most can be used independently:

• envisage

• pyface

• traitsui