workspace¶

Convenience functions and classes to present views to the user

class camelot.view.workspace.DesktopBackground(gui_context)[source]¶

A custom background widget for the desktop. This widget is contained by the first tab (‘Start’ tab) of the desktop workspace.

set_actions(actions)[source]¶

Parameters:	actions – a list of Actions

class camelot.view.workspace.DesktopWorkspace(app_admin, parent)[source]¶

A tab based workspace that can be used by views to display themselves.

In essence this is a wrapper around QTabWidget to do some initial setup and provide it with a background widget. This was originallly implemented using the QMdiArea, but the QMdiArea has too many drawbacks, like not being able to add close buttons to the tabs in a decent way.

background¶

The widget class to be used as the view for the uncloseable ‘Start’ tab.

active_view()[source]¶

Returns:	The currently active view or None in case of the ‘Start’ tab.

add_view(view, icon=None, title='...')[source]¶

Add a Widget implementing AbstractView to the workspace.

change_icon(new_icon)[source]¶

Slot to be called when the icon of a view needs to change.

change_title(new_title)[source]¶

Slot to be called when the tile of a view needs to change.

close_all_views()[source]¶

Remove all views, except the ‘Start’ tab, from the workspace.

refresh()[source]¶

Refresh all views on the desktop

set_view(view, icon=None, title='...')[source]¶

Remove the currently active view and replace it with a new view.

camelot.view.workspace.show_top_level(view, parent, state=None)[source]¶

Show a widget as a top level window. If a parent window is given, the new window will have the same modality as the parent.

Parameters:	view – the widget extend AbstractView parent – the widget with regard to which the top level window will be placed. state – the state of the form, ‘maximized’, or ‘left’ or ‘right’, ...