Creating multiple views in python

[kumar_sai123]

Hi all,
I am a symbian developer and have just started python. I have one query regarding creation of an application having multiple views.
say view1: having menu1 and displaying image1 in appuifw.app.body part.
view2: having menu2 and displaying image2 in appuifw.app.body part.
Using a menu option , i should be able to move from one view to other.
In smbian i used multiview architecture. I want to know how i do it in python (a small snippet will help me a lot).
Also when i use exit_key_handler, i get exit option for right soft key. I want to know how i can generate back option for right soft key.

thanks in advance,
kumar_sai

[bogdan.galiceanu]

Hi,

Well, the conventional way of doing this is to save all the attributes of appuifw.app before you modify them so that when you want to go back to the initial view, you just set appuifw.app to what you saved.

The appuifw2 extension has the View class that allows you to achieve what you want in a more elegant way.

[the86hitman]

appuifw2 is not available for 1.9.x yet though. So saving all the appuifw.app data for each view would be required if you're using the PyS60.

[Rafael T.]

Hi all,
I am a symbian developer and have just started python. I have one query regarding creation of an application having multiple views.
say view1: having menu1 and displaying image1 in appuifw.app.body part.
view2: having menu2 and displaying image2 in appuifw.app.body part.
Using a menu option , i should be able to move from one view to other.

Hi,

First of all, save your menu options into to different variables:

menu1 = [(u"Option 1", callback), (u"Option 2", callback)]
menu2 = [(u"Option 3", callback), (u"Option 4", callback)]

Then, open the image and blit the one you need for the current view:

img1 = graphics.Image.open('E:\\img1.jpg')
img2 = graphics.Image.open('E:\\img2.jpg')

if view == 1:
    img = img1
elif view == 2:
    img = img2

canvas.blit(img)

In smbian i used multiview architecture. I want to know how i do it in python (a small snippet will help me a lot).

Just create a function to switch your views:

def load_view(view):
    if view == 1:
        img = img1
        menu = menu1
        # ... 
    if view == 2:
        img = img2
        menu = menu2

canvas.blit(img)
appuifw.app.menu = menu

Also when i use exit_key_handler, i get exit option for right soft key. I want to know how i can generate back option for right soft key.

Use the callback to do what you want:

def key_handler_cbk(vw):
    load_view(vw)

appuifw.exit_key_handler = lambda:key_handler_cbk(view)

Obviously, those codes are very ugly. I wrote them just for you to understand the logic. Write yourself your own code so it will be much nicer than those examples



Hope it helps,

Rafael.