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Polling from a ui.View (built in timers in ui.Views)
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@enceladus , they thanks for your code samples also.
I modified your update method in the first example. Just quickly, so it would stop after closing the window. Guessing more checks should be done.
def update(self, event_loop): if not self.on_screen: event_loop.stop() return self.set_needs_display() event_loop.call_later(.5, self.update, event_loop)
According to the docs the BaseEventLoop class is not thread safe. I am not good enough to under the implications/restrictions of this both as a standalone as well how it would interact with Pythonista's Threads. Any insights would be appreciated.
Again, for me at least is just to have a reliable and controllable way to easily add a way to call a so called poll/update method on a class, including a ui.View async.Out of the above implementations again I am not good enough to say which is the best implementation. Appears asyncio is py3+ only. Which is fine by me, other might be looking for a 2.7 solution also.
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I think that calls in event loop are run on the same thread. Button action (in stop watch example) should be put in the same event loop so that there are no thread-safety issues. As you have mentioned there could be other issues. (My experience in asyncio module is very limited and I am in learning mode.)
def button_action(sender): event_loop.call_soon(button_action_event_loop, sender) def button_action_event_loop(sender): v1 = sender.superview['view1'] if sender.title == 'Reset': v1.value = 0 v1.state = 'stop' elif sender.title == 'Start': v1.value = 0 v1.state = 'run' elif sender.title == 'Stop': v1.state = 'stop'
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@Phuket2 I've added something to the latest beta. From the release notes:
In custom
ui.View
subclasses, you can now implement anupdate
method (no arguments, except forself
) that gets called automatically by an internal timer. To make this work, you also have to set the newupdate_interval
attribute. It specifies how often the timer fires (e.g. set to 1.0, the timer fires every second). It defaults to 0.0 (disable update timer) because otherwise this new feature might break existing code that happens to implement a method calledupdate
.I hope this works for you.
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@omz , yup pulled another rabbit out of the hat :) was so excited when I seen the email this morning for the new beta. You have seemed to have done a lot. Just did a quick test with the update method. Appears to work perfectly. Just had a button on a form to start and stop the updates by setting the update interval. Very nice. I will do some more tests with opening Dialogs over the top etc... but many thanks, I think this will make a lot of ppl happy. Ok, back to exploring the new features :)
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Is the update_interval, and update, attributes in the latest pythonista?
If now, can I get the beta?By the way, it would be nice if the update method was an empty method (just "pass") that already existed, so users could set the update_interval and update method in the subclassed view's init method.
And whatever already exists, or is done in the future, thank you for a truly great product!
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@technoway It's currently only in the beta. With regards to an empty method in the base class, setting the method in
__init__
etc., that's not really possible because the act of implementing the method is a signal to change the behavior (hope that makes sense). The entire update timer machinery isn't initialized at all if your View class doesn't implementupdate
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Thank you for the quick reply.
Am I allowed to install the beta version, and if so, where is it?
I am running Pythonista on an iPhone (and iPad too, but I need this particular functionality on my iPhone).
I have purchased both the Python 2.x and the Python 3.x versions of Pythonista for my iPhone.
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Ah, I found the message about sending my apple ID through the e-mail. I'll do that. Thanks again, and sorry for all the noise. (I did search before my last post, but missed the relevant post).
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@technoway You should have a beta invite in your email (please check your spam folder if it isn't there).
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@omz, arrgh, spam. I have been patiently waiting for my invite, so long that the spam folder has been purged already. Is it easy for you to resend my invite, or should I just send another request? Sorry.
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@technoway I sent the invite to the Gmail address you sent me yesterday. Did you just purge your spam folder?
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@omz, I am not technoway. Sorry for jumping in; I have been waiting for the beta invite in order to test the polling functionality.
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@mikael Ah, I'm sorry, I'll send a new invite to the email address you're using for this forum.
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@omz, got it, thanks!
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@omz, some feedback on the
update
feature, all of it positive:- Very stable and consistent. Stops when the view is closed, no threading hassles.
- Very intuitive to use. Changing the
update_interval
to 0.0 stops updates, and positive numbers start them again.
With my limited Threading skills, I was unable to create stable and predictable UI animations with either ui.delay or custom Threads. With
update
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@mikael Thanks for your feedback! I appreciate it.
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@Phuket2, thank you for taking this up.
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@mikael , I mentioned something in the github issues area about ui.TableViewCell. @omz said just add your view to the cell. I had forgotten @JonB had helped me with this a long time ago. Anyway, i was playing around. The below maybe is not pretty. But I find it interesting and it shows off a few things. Also how well update works. Well i think it does anyway.
EDIT: to see the cool stuff I think you have to tap a cell and also scroll. You can see how things are getting suspended when you scroll. I think its nice
import ui from random import choice _color_list = ['purple', 'orange', 'deeppink', 'lightblue', 'cornflowerblue' 'red', 'yellow', 'green', 'pink', 'navy', 'teal', 'olive', 'lime', 'maroon', 'aqua', 'silver', 'fuchsia', ] class MyCustomCell(ui.View): def __init__(self, parent, *args, **kwargs): super().__init__(*args, **kwargs) self.cell = parent self.tableview = None self.blink_count = 0 self.lb = None self.frame = self.cell.frame self.flex = 'wh' self.width -= 10 self.x = 5 self.height -= 10 self.y = 5 self.alpha = .5 self.corner_radius = 6 # this allows the touch events to pass through my subview self.touch_enabled = False self.update_interval = .2 lb = ui.Label(frame=(0, 0, 24, 24), bg_color='black', text_color='white', alignment=ui.ALIGN_CENTER) lb.center = self.center lb.corner_radius = 12 self.lb = lb self.add_subview(lb) def rect_onscreen(self): ''' Have to write this method. Would be nice if this was built in. like ui.TableView.is_visible for example. I know its just some rect math, but it means you need to save extra references etc.. to calculate it yourself. ''' return True def update(self): if not self.tableview: return # I did not implement this yet. A little drunk and having a party today. # but gives the idea... if not self.rect_onscreen(): return if self.blink_count == 98: self.update_interval = 0 self.blink_count += 1 self.lb.text = str(self.blink_count) self.bg_color = choice(_color_list) def create_cell(): ''' Create and return a ui.TableViewCell. We add a custom ui.View to the TableViewCell.content_view. This means our view is sitting on top of the normal TableViewCell contents. All is still there. Also create an attr in the cell at runtime that points to our custom class. I guess this can be done many ways. I choose this way for the example. To me its at least clear for access. ''' cell = ui.TableViewCell() myc = MyCustomCell(cell) cell.content_view.add_subview(myc) cell.my_cell = myc return cell class MyDataSource(object): def __init__(self, data): self.data = data self.sel_item = 0 self.cells = [create_cell() for _ in range(len(self.data))] def tableview_number_of_rows(self, tableview, section): # Return the number of rows in the section return len(self.data) def tableview_cell_for_row(self, tableview, section, row): # Create and return a cell for the given section/row cell = self.cells[row] cell.text_label.text = self.data[row] # just showing we can access our class from the my_cell attr # we added. In this case I want to save the tableview attr cell.my_cell.tableview = tableview return cell def tableview_did_select(self, tableview, section, row): # Called when a row was selected. self.select_row(row) def select_row(self, sel_row): for cell in self.cells: cell.accessory_type = "" self.cells[sel_row].accessory_type = 'checkmark' self.sel_item = sel_row def get_table(items): tbl = ui.TableView(frame=(0, 0, 300, 400)) tbl.data_source = MyDataSource(items) tbl.delegate = tbl.data_source return tbl if __name__ == '__main__': v = get_table(['Ian', 'Fred', 'John', 'Paul', 'Gaew', 'Pete', 'Ole', 'Christian', 'Mary', 'Susan', 'Juile' 'Simone', 'Terry', 'Michael', 'James']) v.present(style='sheet', animated=False)
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@Phuket2, could you make it a gist?