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touch_began no longer called for ui.View derived class using Pythonista beta
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I am running the Pythonista 3 beta.
I have a class that creates a full screen button, which I can use to covertly control something else. This is a sanitized version of the program. It's a very large program, but this smaller version demonstrates the issue I am encountering.
For the first beta, the touch_began method was called when I touched the screen, but after one of the subsequent updates, that method is no longer being called.
I am not asking for anyone to debug my program. All I want to know is should a ui.View derived class work in this case, i.e. did something break in the beta, or do I need to change to something else, perhaps a Scene?
Or, it's possible that I deleted something by mistake that made this work before?
""" testview.py Author: Bill Hallahan """ import os import time import speech import ui import motion from ui import Image from ui import ImageView import types import console from objc_util import * class TESTButtonView(ui.View): """ This user interface class forms a full-screen button that ... . """ def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs): """ Initialize the user interface """ super().__init__(*args, **kwargs) self.update_interval = 1.0 # Set up an image view. self.width, self.height = ui.get_window_size() self.iv = ImageView() self.iv.background_color = '#000000' self.iv.width = self.width self.iv.height = self.height self.iv.image = Image('lock_screen.png') def update(self): """ This update function is called once a second to ... """ # code omitted. This method is being called. pass def change_title_bar_color(self, hex_color): """ Change the title bar color to the passed color. """ vv = ObjCInstance(self) bar_bckgnd = vv.superview().superview().superview().subviews()[1].subviews()[0] bar_bckgnd.backgroundColor = UIColor.colorWithHexString_(hex_color) def touch_began(self, touch): """ This function is called when the user touches the screen. """ speech.say('up') def touch_ended(self, touch): """ This function is called when the user stops touching the screen. """ speech.say('down') def wait_for_portrait_mode(): """ Do not return until the device is held in portrait mode. """ msg = 'Hold your phone in portrait mode.' console.hud_alert(msg, duration=3) motion.start_updates() try: count=0 while True: x, y, z = motion.get_gravity() count += 1 if count > 2: if abs(x) < abs(y): break else: console.hud_alert(msg, duration=2) time.sleep(0.5) finally: motion.stop_updates() time.sleep(1) if __name__ == "__main__": # Prevent the iPhone from going to sleep while this program runs. console.set_idle_timer_disabled(True) # Is the phone positioned correctly? wait_for_portrait_mode() # Create and display the full-screen Morse code input button. v = TESTButtonView() v.present('sheet', title_bar_color='#000000', hide_close_button=True, orientations=['portrait'])
Note, just to be sure there was no issue with the speech.say method being called there, I replaced that with os._exit(0). If I put that in the update method, the program exited. If I put it in the touch_began method, ran the program, and touched the screen, nothing happened.
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Can you try eliminating the imageview? I think the imageview might be stealing your touches. You may need to set imageview.touch_enabled=False.
Also you may need to set touch_enabled=True on the custom view.
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@technoway, one thing, that might have been introduced in some new version, is that a ui.View with no background color set will not get any touch events.
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with Pythonista 3.2 +
#... self.iv.image = ui.Image.named('lock_screen.png') def draw(self): self.iv.image.draw() #...
it worked for me
edit: btw. leave out the ImageView is also possible
#... #self.iv = ImageView() #self.iv... self.image = ui.Image.named('lock_screen.png') def draw(self): self.image.draw() #...
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brumm - Thank you. With the first change you proposed, the touch_began method is now called when I touch the screen. The image is now too large, but I'll figure that out.
JonB, than you for identifying the source of the problem. I didn't think of that.
mikael - Thank you for the response. Whatever changed, it was a while ago.
I only recently had time to work on this again. It occurs to me this also might have broken because of an IOS upgrade. I think both an IOS upgrade and a Pythonista beta update happened before I noticed it was broken.
Note, one of the things I can control is what is on the screen. In the main program, the following can be called.
self.change_title_bar_color('000000') self.remove_subview(self.iv)
and in another place in the code:
self.change_title_bar_color('334444') self.add_subview(self.iv)
That's why I chose an ImageView.
I have a background in digital signal processing, so I know something about images, but I have a weak understanding of Pythonista's image classes. I got things to work mostly by copying examples.
The image is now scaled way too big. I think I might need a frame? I tried setting the size a couple of ways, but that had no effect.
In any event, thanks. I will fix the image size issue - the touch_began problem had me stumped. I was looking in all the wrong places. The word "View" in "ImageView" should have given me a clue as to what was wrong.
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def draw(self): self.iv.image.draw(0,0,self.width,self.height)
you can only fit your image or you might like to calculate the screen ratio first...