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[Lab] a ui Style class as a context manager
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I struggle to find a good way to apply styles to ui elements. With this subject you can cut the cake a million ways. Below code is just sort of thinking out aloud.
It's a context manager, because enter and exit methods are defined as they should be. It also handles nested calls using the 'with' clause.
Also the method apply_style is using the context manager inside the class. Attempt to try to simplify the interface.Anyway, food for thought. More attrs could be added to the class. Hmmm, but does it really save time and code lines?
# Pythonista Forum - @Phuket2 import ui, editor, copy from time import sleep class UIStyle(object): dict_list = [] def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs): self.bg_color = 'white' self.border_color = 'black' self.corner_radius = 0 self.text_color = 'black' self.tint_color = None self.font = ('Arial Rounded MT Bold', 22) self.flex = 'wh' self.alpha = 1.0 self.apply_style_kwargs(**kwargs) def __enter__(self): __class__.dict_list.append(copy.copy(self.__dict__)) return self def __exit__(self, type, value, traceback): self.__dict__.update(__class__.dict_list.pop()) def apply_style_kwargs(self, **kwargs): # set our class attrs with kwargs , these attrs stick for k, v in kwargs.items(): if hasattr(self, k): setattr(self, k, v) def apply_style(self, obj, **kwargs): ''' apply the attrs in our dict to a ui object (obj) you can overwrite attrs, will not effect the dict as the class is a context manager and we use the with key word, so the enter and exit methods are called automatically. This can be done outside the class, but maybe this is more convienient.? ''' with self as style: self.apply_style_kwargs(**kwargs) for k, v in self.__dict__.items(): if hasattr(obj, k): setattr(obj, k, v) class MyClass(ui.View): def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs): super().__init__(*args, **kwargs) self.make_view() def make_view(self): pass if __name__ == '__main__': _use_theme = False w, h = 600, 800 f = (0, 0, w, h) # all the standard stuff style = 'sheet' mc = MyClass(frame=f) if not _use_theme: mc.present(style=style, animated=False) else: editor.present_themed(mc, theme_name='Oceanic', style=style, animated=False) # THE TEST STARTS BELOW # show UIStyle() working... s = UIStyle() # s.apply_style is wrapped in a with statement s.apply_style(mc, bg_color='deeppink') # override the bg_color sleep(2) print('s.bg_color=', s.bg_color) # keep in mind, s.apply_style is also using a with statement # this example just to show nesting is working with s: s.apply_style(mc, bg_color='green') # override the bg_color sleep(2) s.bg_color = 'orange' # we are still in a with block s.apply_style(mc) # override the bg_color sleep(2) s.bg_color = 'blue' s.apply_style(mc) # override the bg_color sleep(1) s.apply_style(mc) print('game over, the bg_color is still -', s.bg_color)