unigui-carstentb 0.1.1

A cross-hardware GUI framework

UniGui

A cross-platform user interface framework based on Adafruit Displayio

This GUI framework can be used to create front-ends on multiple platforms, including Generic Linux and Windows PCs, Single board computers such as Raspberry Pi using a hardware display (for instance: PiTFT), and microcontroller-based projects (i.e. Feather RP2040) using CircuitPython and a display.

There is also a class called PygameDisplay that uses pygame to create a displayio.Display for use in a non-embedded environment. Much of that code was adopted from https://github.com/FoamyGuy/Blinka_Displayio_PyGameDisplay.

ToDo list

• PR for Adafruit_Blinka and (possibly) PlatformDetect to allow usage on generic PC environments.
• Overall improvement and features for widgets
• Fix border_on function for generic widget so border is always drawn on top of other content (useful for viewing widget dimensions)
• Map names (such as BASE_DARK, BASE_LIGHT, TEXT_DEFAULT, TEXT_HIGHLIGHT, etc) to the palette indices so that I can reference them independently of the color scheme
• Figure out how to better handle clicks. For example, I might want a single widget to have multiple click regions. I don't think this is easy to do right now. Consider removing UniGui object totally and just making the Widget idea fully recursive.
• Fix font file paths so they work always

How to use this framework

• Clone this repository to your computer, then navigate into the project directory.
• Create a python virtual environment with python -m venv .venv. Note: This project has been tested with Python 3.10.4 on Windows and Linux. You can name your virtual environment directory whatever you like. The current .gitignore will ignore all directories starting with .venv
• Activate the virtual environment on Linux with source .venv/bin/activate.sh, or on Windows PowerShell with .venv\Scripts\Activate.ps1.
• Install dependencies with pip install -r requirements.txt.
• To run the main example, type python examples/desktop/code-desktop.py