workspace

Convenience functions and classes to present views to the user

class camelot.view.workspace.DesktopBackground(gui_context, parent)

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

set_actions(actions)

Parameters:actions – a list of EntityActions

class camelot.view.workspace.DesktopWorkspace(app_admin, parent)

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()

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

add_view(view, icon=None, title='...')

Add a Widget implementing AbstractView to the workspace.

change_icon(new_icon)

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

Note: the icon of the ‘Start’ tab cannot be overwritten.

change_title(new_title)

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

Note: the title of the ‘Start’ tab cannot be overwritten.

close_all_views()

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

refresh()

Refresh all views on the desktop

set_view(view, icon=None, title='...')

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

camelot.view.workspace.show_top_level(view, parent)

Show a widget as a top level window :param view: the widget extend AbstractView :param parent: the widget with regard to which the top level window will be placed.