Changeset 3360

Timestamp:

09/12/07 07:07:17 (1 year ago)

Author:

ed

Message:

Added automatic importing of app-level subdirectory names into the dApp namespace. This will allow you to reference your local classes using 'self.Application.biz', for example. Prior to this, you could not reference a bizobj class from a form class unless they were in the same directory.

Added a generic _getAppDirectoryNames() method to the dabo module, and enhanced the quickStart() method.

Files:

• trunk/dabo/__init__.py (modified) (4 diffs)
• trunk/dabo/dApp.py (modified) (4 diffs)

trunk/dabo/__init__.py

@@ -164 +164 @@
-
-
+# Define the standard Dabo subdirectory stucture for apps.
+def _getAppDirectoryNames():
+    return ("biz", "db", "ui", "resources", "reports")
+    
+    
-# Method to create a standard Dabo directory structure layout
-def makeDaboDirectories(homedir=None):
-s
+d
-    directory. Otherwise, it is assumed that they should be created
-    in the current directory location.
@@ -173 +178 @@
-    if homedir is not None:
-        os.chdir(homedir)
-("biz", "db", "ui", "resources", "reports"
+_getAppDirectoryNames(
-        if not os.path.exists(d):
-            os.mkdir(d)
@@ -185 +190 @@
-    currLoc = os.getcwd()
-    if homedir is not None:
+        if not os.path.exists(homedir):
+            os.makedirs(homedir)
-        os.chdir(homedir)
-    makeDaboDirectories()
@@ -190 +197 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-import dabo
+dabo.ui.loadUI("wx")
-
-app = dabo.dApp()
+
+# IMPORTANT! Change app.MainFormClass value to the name
+# of the form class that you want to run when your
+# application starts up.
+app.MainFormClass = dabo.ui.dFormMain
+
-app.start()
-""")
+
+    template = """#!/usr/bin/env python
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+######
+# In order for Dabo to 'see' classes in your %(dd)s directory, add an 
+# import statement here for each class. E.g., if you have a file named
+# 'MyClasses.py' in this directory, and it defines two classes named 'FirstClass'
+# and 'SecondClass', add these lines:
+# 
+# from MyClass import FirstClass
+# from MyClass import SecondClass
+# 
+# Now you can refer to these classes as: self.Application.%(dd)s.FirstClass and
+# self.Application.%(dd)s.SecondClass
+######
+
+"""
+    for dd in dabo._getAppDirectoryNames():
+        fname = "%s/__init__.py" % dd
+        txt = template % locals()
+        open(fname, "w").write(txt)
-    os.chmod("main.py", 0744)
-    os.chdir(currLoc)
-    

trunk/dabo/dApp.py

@@ -14 +14 @@
-import dabo.ui
-import dabo.db
-import dLocalize
-from dabo.dLocalize import _
-from dabo.lib.connParser import importConnections
-
-
+
-from dabo.lib.SimpleCrypt import SimpleCrypt
-from dabo.dObject import dObject
-
+from dabo 
-
-
@@ -236 +234 @@
-            dLocalize.setLanguage(lang, charset)
-
+        self._initModuleNames()
-        self._initDB()
-        
@@ -599 +598 @@
-        connDefs = {}
-
-
-
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
-            if os.path.exists(dbDir) and os.path.isdir(dbDir):
-                files = glob.glob(os.path.join(dbDir, "*.cnxml"))
@@ -629 +638 @@
-        dabo.infoLog.write(_("%s database connection definition(s) loaded.") 
-            % (len(self.dbConnectionDefs)))
+
+
+    def _initModuleNames(self):
+        """Import the common application-level module names into attributes
+        of this application object, so that the app code can easily reference them.
+        Example: f there is a 'biz' directory that can be imported, other objects in 
+        the system can reference bizobjs using the 'self.Application.biz' syntax
+        """
+        for dd in ("biz", "db", "ui", "resources", "reports"):
+            try:
+                self.__setattr__(dd, __import__(dd, level=0))
+            except:
+                self.__setattr__(dd, None)
-
-