AbsTK

About

Maintaining different versions for an application in text and graphic modes is costly and problematic. AbsTK is a free Python toolkit for interface building, which abstracts away the visual elements and allows one to develop applications which execute both in textual and graphical environments.

It currently supports the Unix console through ncurses and X11 through Qt, and is released under the GNU GPL.

AbsTK is used in the GoboLinux Installer.

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Download

• AbsTK 0.1 - first public release (May 13th 2004).

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API

The AbsTK API is designed to be very minimalistic, and abstract away most issues related to the actual display of data, while allowing the development of fully programmable interfaces through a simplified callback system. Have a glimpse of the very simple programming interface:

class Wizard:
 __init__(self, name)
 showMessageBox(self, message, buttons = ['Ok, Cancel'])
 start(self)
 addScreen(self, screen)
 setValue(self, field, value)
 getValue(self, field)
 setEnabled(self, field, enabled)
 isEnabled(self, field)
 clear(self, newName = '')
class Screen:
 __init__(self, title = "")
 setTitle(self,title)
 setValue(self, fieldName, newValue)
 getValue(self, fieldName)
 addImage(self, fileName)
 addLabel (self, fieldName = '', label = '',
 defaultValue = '',
 toolTip = '')
 addBoolean (self, fieldName = '', label = '',
 defaultValue = 0,
 toolTip = '', callBack = None)
 addPassword (self, fieldName = '', label = '',
 defaultValue = '',
 toolTip = '', callBack = None)
 addLineEdit (self, fieldName = '', label = '',
 defaultValue = '',
 toolTip = '', callBack = None)
 addMultiLineEdit(self, fieldName = '', label = '',
 defaultValue = '',
 toolTip = '', callBack = None)
 addButton (self, fieldName = '', label = '',
 defaultValue = '',
 toolTip = '', callBack = None)
 addList (self, fieldName = '', label = '',
 defaultValueTuple = ([],''),
 toolTip = '', callBack = None)
 addBoxList (self, fieldName = '', label = '',
 defaultValueTuple = ([],''),
 toolTip = '', callBack = None)
 addRadioList (self, fieldName = '', label = '',
 defaultValueTuple = ([],''),
 toolTip = '', callBack = None)
 addCheckList (self, fieldName = '', label = '',
 defaultValueTuple = ([],[]),
 toolTip = '', callBack = None)

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Authors

AbsTK was created by Hisham Muhammad and André Detsch.

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