tkurses 0.2.8

Tkinter-like themed UI framework for curses... New aditions to 0.2.8: setings and custom keybindings and updated README file

TKurses

tkurses is a library for tkinter like interface in curses

basic program

import curses
import tkurses.core as core
import tkurses.widgets as widgits

def main(stdscr):
    app = core.App(screen, "theme.json", "settings.json") # leave either of these blank to get a defaul writen to a defaultTheme.json or defaultSettings.jdon
    app.addWidget(app.Label("Hello World!", 0,0))

    app.main_loop()

curses.wrapper(main)

Widgets

Label

Declaring one

app.Label("what To Write",posX,posY)

Button

Declaring one

app.Button("what To Write",(posX,posY),(sizeX,sizeY),on_press=function_to_run)

Input prompt

declaring one

app.Input("prompt",(posX,posY),(sizeX,sizeY),on_press=function_to_run_on_enter_pressed)

TextBox (Experemental)

Declaring one

app.TextBox((PosX,posY),(sizeX,sizeY),enterOnEnter=true)

getting current Contents

currentTextbox.text

adding Widgets to app

app.add_widget(Variable)

Theming files

example Theme

{
    "colors": {
        "background": "black",
        "forground": "white"
    },
    "input": {
        "style": "default",
        "colors": {
            "focused": {
                "background": "black",
                "forground": "white"
            }, "not-focused": {
                "forground": "black",
                "background": "white"
            }
        }
    },
    "text": {
        "colors": {
            "background": "blue",
            "forground": "black"
        },
        "theme": "None",
        "quitKeys": ["Enter","shift-enter"]
    },
    "buttons": {
        "colors": {
            "focused": { "background": "white", "forground": "black"},
            "not-focused": {"background": "black","forground": "white"}
        },
        "start": {"focused":"[","not-focused":"<"},
        "end": {"focused": "]","not-focused":">"}
    }
}

Settings and keybinds

A recent adition to this library is the ability to add settings.json to your program (or rather the requirmen too) here is an example of what you have to have so far (not all of them work yet but will in future updates)

{
    "keybindings": {
        "Move-Focus-Forward": "TAB",
        "Move-Focus-Back": "None",
        "Move-Focus-In-Frame-Forward": "CTRL+D",
        "Move-Focus-In-Frame-Backward": "None",
        "Exit-Text-box": "CTRL+M",
        "Quit-Program": "ESC"
    }
}