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Selectors in Python
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I am writing a script and i want this button to make an action when this button is pressed:
b1=ObjCClass('UIBarButtonItem').alloc().initWithTitle_style_target_action_('H',1,None,'bt1')
I made a function named bt1 with a simple
print "HelloWorld "
line inside but it doesnt print anything. I tried with objcblocks too but same result. How can i achieve this? (Basically how to run a function with a BarButtonItem) -
Have you tried setting the
target
to something other thanNone
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The code is this
from objutil import * # is a custom objc module with more funtions def bt1(): print 'HelloWorld' bar=ObjCClass('UIKeyboardAssistantBar').alloc() action = ObjCBlock(bt1,argtypes=[c_void_p]) txtv=ObjCInstance(ui.TextView(background_color=(.0, .85, .0))) b1=ObjCClass('UIBarButtonItem').alloc().initWithTitle_style_target_action_('H',1,None,'action') b2=ObjCClass('UIBarButtonItem').alloc().initWithTitle_style_target_action_('2',1,None,None) items=[] items.append(b1) group=ObjCClass('UIBarButtonItemGroup').alloc().initWithBarButtonItems_representativeItem_(items,b2) txtv.inputAssistantItem().trailingBarButtonGroups = [group] presentUiElement(txtv) # this presents the textview in a panel ui
I dont know what to set as target. I saw some websites and all of them put self but it doesnt work with python. Is there a way to use self?
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action must be a selector name, which is found in target or if target is None, it will search up the reponder chain.
Why don't you create a ui.Button in Python, point its action to bt, then figure out the selector name (maybe it is sel('action')) and use that, pointing to your button's objc_ptr? -
Here's an example for defining an ObjC class to use as the target for your action:
from objc_util import * import ui UIBarButtonItem = ObjCClass('UIBarButtonItem') UIBarButtonItemGroup = ObjCClass('UIBarButtonItemGroup') def btnAction(_self, _cmd): print 'hello world' ActionTarget = create_objc_class('ActionTarget', methods=[btnAction]) target = ActionTarget.new().autorelease() @on_main_thread def main(): tv = ui.TextView(frame=(0, 0, 320, 320)) b1 = UIBarButtonItem.alloc().initWithTitle_style_target_action_('H', 0, target, 'btnAction').autorelease() group = UIBarButtonItemGroup.alloc().initWithBarButtonItems_representativeItem_([b1], None).autorelease() ObjCInstance(tv).inputAssistantItem().trailingBarButtonGroups = [group] tv.present('sheet') if __name__ == '__main__': main()
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Thanks, solved the problem :-)
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On my system, (iPd Air 2, beta ...33, ios 8.4.1) 'UIBarButtonItemGroup' raises a
ValueError
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@polymerchm The class was added in iOS 9.
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Okay. I'll wait. One beta at a time. Beta squared is scary. Is there a simple way to list which classes are in 8.4.1?
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Not long now... iOS 9 General Availability is scheduled for Wednesday.
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@polymerchm i don't know about classes but you can see available frameworks doing
import os frameworks=os.listdir('/System/Library/Frameworks') for f in frameworks: print f
And then you can load a framework with:
from objc_util import * ObjCClass('NSBundle').bundleWithPath_('/System/Library/Frameworks/FRAMEWORK_TO_LOAD.framework').load()