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Code works differently on Windows & Mac.

See the setButtonImage function, the two code snippets are there - this needs testing, and a resolution found. Either a platform decision, or a universal solution.

Need to:

• finish mouseEvents, show number with mouse over
• add functionality to change data
• add functionality to set properties
• test hide/remove, positioning in different containers

crashes when a list of buttons is supplied, with a None function

The setWidth/setHeight functions on Meter don't seem to do much

OptionBox font size, bg & fg doesn't change

The Properties widget uses a new method for propagating config properties.
It overrides the config functions, and deals with the different options.
This is much better than previous methods of having multiple setters.

This should be implemented across all the container widgets:

In fact, this should be done to all classes:

Containers

• SubWindow
• ScrollPane
• PagedWindow, Page
• ToggleFrame
• Pane
• AutoScrollbar
• ParentBox, LabelBox, ButtonBox, WidgetBox, ListBoxContainer
• TabbedFrame
• ajFrame

Basic Widgets

• SelectableLabel
• TextParent, AjText, AjScrolledText
• AjScale
• AutoCompleteEntry
• Separator
• Link
• Grip
• Meter, SplitMeter, DualMeter

Complex Widgets

• Properties
• Dialogs...
• SplashScreen
• SimpleGrid
• MicroBitSimulator
• PieChart
• ajTreeNode, ajTreeData
• GoogleMap
• AjRectangle, Point

Make the image folder a global variable.
Allow the user to change the folder through a set function.

Maybe auto-check an image directory, if images aren;t found in the current directory...

Weird issue, occasionally win sound fails to locate file

May be due to network shares at school - need to research...

Padding doesn't work particularly well at the moment:

1. The initial window is padded 2 x/y which can't be changed - it should be configurable.
2. It's possible to setPadX/setPadY - but these actually set iPadX/iPadY of the current container - which in turn is applied to all widgets, giving them the specified internal padding.

Instead:

• Allow the user to set generic & widget specific internal/external x/y paddings
• Allow the user to specify a padding for entire window, defaulting to 2

Have the choice to include a "selection" message
When getSelected is called, it should return None
Maybe just pass in an empty list item, or a dash, or have a named function?

In order to stop the GUI returning, it can be made to wait for a sound to finish playing.

This makes the UI unresponsive.

It would be better to still play the sound asynchronously, but use the UI loop to wait until it's time to return.

Options to hide and show toolbars...

• Issues with mouse scrolling
• Issues with registering double click - only applies to root node
• issues getting currently selected node

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29019760/how-to-create-a-combobox-that-includes-checkbox-for-each-item

Add support for changing volume...

Animated images are cached - that means if the same image is used more than once, the animation loop goes into overdrive, and if the animation is stopped - it affects all copies of that image

Set all GUIs to have appJar icon
Configure menu options help/about - to give information about appJar & link to site

The NoteBook tabs look a little old fashioned.
Would be nice to have an option to have them fill the entire row, to look more like phone apps.

Not convinced the GUI is properly receiving the focus when it starts up.

Evidence:

• Menus don't work until you alt-tab
• buttons/check boxes/etc don't get blue highlight straight away

Not noticed on Windows, but definitely something fishy on Mac

If you set a big font for the GUI, the graphics for radio buttons& check boxes stay the same size - looks a bit rubbish.

Is there a way to make these grow in line with the font?

Option to remove a single item from an OptionBox

PNG crashes with no alphapixels

A quick-to-create set of radio/check boxes.

• addProperties(props) - Creates the properties box, with the list of properties. The properties can be passed in as dictionary, but the order will be random.
• addProperty(title, value=False) - Adds the named property to the end of the properties list.
• getProperties() - Returns the properties as a dictionary.
• getProperty(title) - Gets the named property.
• setProperty(title, value=True) - Sets the named property.

Some PNG files fail to convert, with the complaint that no IDAT chunks exist - see image for more details

Quick way to create 'Shelve Interface':

• Multiple LabelEntries
• Buttons

Users expect a setFg function, to operate in same way as setBg...

Add 4th positioning option - rowspan

Currently, appJar supports positioning in a grid cell by row/column, and also allows a widget to span multiple columns.

There should also be the ability to span multiple rows - this is supported by the grid layout, so is just a case of introducing it to all the add functions.

Would be useful to have easy way to access a widget - so that tkinter commands can be called on it directly

Should implement a getter, in the same way setters are done.

Allow status bar to be configured as a number of labels, each one separately addressable

When rowspan is populated, sticky is still only EW
This can be overridden by user
Maybe default widgets with a rowspan to auto stick to top & bottom?
This can be done in __positionWidget()
But need to be careful not to override user settings for container/widget

See issue #38

When you set the Window BG (on Windows at least) the BG of the buttons changes too - not desired!

For some reason, the isAnimated property of images isn't always found. For now a try/ignore has been added, to resolve this. But a reason needs to be found and fixed.

CB & RB align centrally in a row - is this desired?

Remove label from scale, include addLabelScale.

Change orientScaleHor - better name, and change functionality - default is horizontal, so this function's job is to make it vertical...

Look into layout of scale - is it vertically centred?

tkinter has overrideredirect which will hide/show the title bar

SpinBox items are in the opposite order to expected

So the initial action is to scroll up - not right!

Now we have rowspan, vertical separators would be useful!

Numbers crash optionBoxes - it tries to get the length of the string, but can't

SubWindow functionality needs improving:

• size
• location (auto centre)
• transparency
• background, etc...

Also, think about menu, toolbar, status bar

Set functions for ListBox, RadioButton & CheckBox use shorthand form (LB, RB, CB) - this doesn't match rest of app - should use long form version (ListBox, RadioButton, CheckBox). Should keep old versions for backwards compatibility.

When the Autoscrollbar appears on a ListBox (and probably anywhere else) it adds to the widget's width - this makes the GUI change size. Need to find a way to make it's container account for this, so that the size is consistent

Tried to put in some 'debouncing' - need to see how much it breaks other platforms...

Labels fill an entire row with their BG colour, but RB & CB don't - is this desired?

Requested Page Organiser

Simple navigation from one page to the next: FORWARD/BACK buttons at bottom/top of every page.
No BACK on pg.1 No FORWARD on last page

Then content page should fill whole app. Within frame though, so that status bar/tool bar still valid...

Some changes to menus:

• add support for menu dictionaries
• add support for adding single items to menus
• add support for checkbox/radiobutton
• add support for cross-platform special menus
• look into cross-platform tearable support
• look into adding images to menus

The OptionBox button defaults to the width of the first item in the list.
This can cause resizing issues, if the column's width is less than the biggest item.
Currently, a fix has been added to set the width to the length of the longest item in the list. This seems to work on Mac, with the default font, but is expected to break with other fonts. Untested on Windows.

Secondly, the drop-down width is different on different platforms. Mac it mimics the button, but on Windows it is smaller than the button. Option to extend width by padding with spaces...

Potential solution here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33367443/optionmenu-modify-drop-down-list-width-to-match-optionmenu-width
Need to test on Windows - perhaps do different things on different platforms...

If no title is set for the app, it should default to the python file's name
On Mac, this works fine, in Windows it has the entire path - the path is meant to be removed...

ScrollPane now pretty solid - so should use for:

• listbox
• tree
• grid
• textArea

Therefore:

• remove all scroll related code from widgets
• have widgets place themselves in a scrollPane
• position scrollPane in grid

However, scrollPane has lots of components:

• it is a frame
• contains 2x scrollbar & 1x canvas
• canvas contains another frame: interior via create_window

Do we place widgets into interior, or do widgets become interior?
Can widgets replace canvas?

Maybe, make generic ScrollContainer, then:

• extend to make scrollPane, scrollList, scrollText
• use scrollPane to position grid & tree

Need to rework setting colours:

TabbedWindow foreground states:

• activeforeground - the selected tab
• foreground - other tabs
• disabledforeground - disabled tabs

TabbedWindow background states:

• activebackground - the selected tab & all panes
• background - container's BG
• (NEW) inactivebackground - other tabs

Can change a single Tab's background