tkurses 0.3.8

Tkinter-like themed UI framework for curses... New aditions to 0.3.1: proportional x,y,width,height

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

global functions

widget.delete() # delete a widget you have created and un-render it and remove it from the apps widgets allong with all its children

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":">"}
    }
}

Theme options

key	options	explination
["input"]["style"]	"box"/"default"	box shows inpu as a box and defalut shows it like python input
["text"]["theme"]	Anything you please	Not a thing yet... to be filled in

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"
    }
}