[Share] a list of rects distributed around 360 degrees

Phuket2

@abcabc , that's really nice. Would be great if you made your class a utility class. I mean passing all Params etc. to the class to be able to personalize it and make it a bit more generic. Eg, if you could set an image and set its rotation center, you could make a volume dial control. Maybe not the best explanation, but I think you see what I mean. But this sort of class in a generic form would be very useful too many

Phuket2

@JonB , I am pretty sure there is a good reason for it, but the reason eludes me. I am thinking about ui Elements having rotate, scale, axis etc attrs built in. I do understand that the Transform.xxx can be chained and used in animations etc. But it seems to me that any given ui object should have attrs such as rotate, scale, translate etc...maybe I am missing something about the math, but I don't think so. Just seems like a lot of hoops to go through when it could just as easily be a attr on any ui Element. Eg ui.Button(rotate_deg = 5) etc... Seems reasonable, well more than reasonable to me.

@omz not sure what you think about this. I think it would be really helpful. Not everyone that use Python/Pythonista are going to be geometrically blessed. I can only imagine some things are not that easy to implement given it all has to fit into XCode template also. But still it seems to me if it was possible, would make ui things easier for people like me 😱😂

abcabc

@Phuket2 I have modified the circular slider code so that you can use it like ui slider. The code and examples are are available in the following repository.

https://github.com/balachandrana/pythonista_circular_slider

In test1.py and test2.py you can control the ui slider with circular slider and vice versa. The test1.py code uses continuous mode and
in test2.py tint_color is set to red and continuous mode sets to false. In test3.py you can change the center image by slider.

Knob like designs (see the examples below) would require more effort and better designer skills. Anyway I will try to do some simple things later.
http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/beautiful-volume-dials-knobs/

Phuket2

@abcabc , thanks. I didn't really get the self.a property though. I was thinking if it set that to -90 it would basically set things to 0 on the clock. However it's set at 270 degrees. I tried a few values, but stopped because it was clear I didn't understand it. Btw, i did not download your test .py and pyui files yet. Will get later. But anyway, I did use the action/continuous attrs. Works really well. The results from the self.value appear to be spot on to what I would expect. But I still think a few attrs a little less mathy would be nice 😁 Starting point for example. I am sure it's there, but I think it's ok to assume the users of your class are totally dumb to any math you be using internally in your class. Not to say, you need to block access to attrs that could be set directly by people who,understand the math. I just say this, because a class like this with a nice/easy API would allow people like me to make animated interface items that would otherwise would be hard to make.
Btw, I love the link to the knobs and dials. But I disagree with you a little. If your class just handled the movements/tracking/queries it would be very flexible to be able create the knobs/dials in that link. Some of those fancy dials could be made by just manipulating an array of pics in a container like a ui.Button/ui.Image etc. meaning the effects don't have to real time to get a nice result , but they could also be real time effects if fast enough. I guess what I am saying your class does not need to draw anything and probably shouldn't unless for debugging help. Rather, you could overlay your class transparently on other ui objects and control the underlying objects from from class.
I hope you don't mind my me giving my opinion. I say it because I would love something like this. Of course I think about other functionality, like being able to supply a list of degrees as the only stop points etc. if I could write it, I would offer some code. One thing to mention, you also use inheritance. Have your base class and create different types of user controllers/Guestures whatever to call them off the base. Could keep it a bit cleaner as your ideas exapand.
Ok, that's my 5 cents worth of feedback 😬😬😬

abcabc

Please look at the tests. You need to use self.value (and not self.a which is internal' it varies from -pi tp +pi returned by atan2 function).

Phuket2

@abcabc , ok, I will do. But still I prefer not to have to know about atan etc... Just saying...

I just did this, it's bit of a mess, but just to illustrate what I was saying in my previous post. You circular_slider is just visible, but when using some graphics it would not be, just there as an overlay/controller. Again, sorry, I does nothing other than combine a number of things together. Also would hope to have multiple instances of your circular_slider on the view. For instances when you have a inner and outer control points

Phuket2

Sorry the last gist in the layout should have been. Not a big deal, just trying to show something.

def layout(self):
		r , rects = rects_on_circle_path(self.bounds, self.obj_w, margin=self.margin, N=len(self.obj_list))
		self.r = r
		
		if not self.cs:
			print('in here')
			self.cs = CS.CircularSlider(frame = r, name = 'CS')
			self.cs.action = self.cs_action
			self.cs.continuous = True
			self.cs.alpha = .05
			self.add_subview(self.cs)
		
		for i, r in enumerate(rects):
			self.obj_list[i].frame = r

abcabc

I have changed two lines in your program to make it work. See the following gist

https://gist.github.com/5e7b8beb9a0b35aaafbcd06b0cd30340

line 81:
self.degree = 90

line 183
self.degree = sender.value *360 -90

abcabc

Sorry. Typo. line 103 not 183.

Phuket2

@abcabc , thanks. It makes it work. I was not so worried about that. More worried bout you need to know the math inside to get it to work. The reason I tried -90, was because often from what I can see anyway , the geometry done in Pythonista is based on radians. But the point is does not matter what math you use, but as a consumer of your class, the less I have to know the better. Just because you know the math back the front, nothing to say I should have to know it. But something like degrees is pretty understandable for most people. Again, look it's your code and effort. I am just pushing in the case you want to make consumable class that the majority could use with ease. It's like cooking (which I love) you want as many people as possible to try your food. That's what makes the effort worth while and gives you a buzz when you get it right. I think writing classes/functions here is the same thing. Well, for me it's like that.

Phuket2

@abcabc , a small update to the gist. Its not suppose to present an ideal case. But combining the views/funcs can start to get something that looks ok. Have numbers around the outer ring in this example, would look more realistic with major and minor tick marks for example. But for me your circular_slider makes this possible.

Edit: of course the outter ring not even needed