New in this released is API documentation which is generated using
epydoc[3]. It's still being written but at this point I feel that
it's good enough to be a very useful resource to help understand
kiwi. Kiwi is a PyGTK framework for building graphical applications loosely
based on MVC Model-View-Controller (MVC) and Allen Holub's Visual proxy
[1]. Think of Kiwi as a high-level, object-oriented layer built on
PyGTK.
Its design is based on real-world experience using PyGTK to develop
large desktop applications, which use many concepts common to most
graphical applications: multiple windows and dialogs, forms, data
persistence, lists and high-level classes that support domain objects
directly.
Download
========
Grab the latest sources from:
http://www.async.com.br/projects/kiwi/download/kiwi-1.9.7.tar.gz
What's new since 1.9.6?
=======================
- Much improved mask support
- DateEntry widget
- Re-add ProxyDelegate (lost since kiwi1)
- Draw validation icon on the left side for right align entries
- Many ComboEntry bug fixes
- Distribution helper improvements
- Limited support for zope.interfaces
- Add a better HIG alert dialog
- Improved logging (a la GStreamer)
Features
========
* An MVC-derived framework of classes:
* Views, which represent the graphical display
* Controllers, which handles user interaction with the widgets
in a View.
* Delegates, combines a View and a Controller.
* Models, which are special mixins for your domain objects
* Proxies, special types of Delegate designed to implement forms
* Validation: Kiwi supports validation on different levels:
data type validation and verification on the Model/Proxy level,
View validation and hooks for visually displaying validation state.
* ObjectList widget, which provides a higher level abstraction of
GtkTreeView and all its classes (GtkTreeModel, GtkTreeViewColumn,
GtkCellRenderer) with hooks to easily integrate into the
Kiwi Framework.
* Mask suport: You can set a mask on entries to force the input to
follow a certain standard, such as zip code, social security, ip address
* Gazpacho integration for most (non-deprecated) interactive
widgets with attributes for handling validation and proxy
attributes.
* UI Test framework
Features a recorder and a player. The recorder allows you to record
different tasks, a script will be saved which will reproduce the
actions you made in the interface.
* Kiwi Tasklets
Tasklet is a small coroutines framework written by Gustavo Carneiro,
it was previously known as gtasklets.
* PyGTK utilities, to make it easier to add signals and properties to
your objects.
* i18n translation utilities, to help you translate PyGTK applications,
currently depends on gettext and intltool.
* and many other things!
Requirements
============
Python 2.3 or higher (2.4 recommended) http://www.python.org/
PyGTK 2.6.0 or higher (2.8 recommended) http://www.pygtk.org/
gazpacho 0.6.2 (svn recommenced) http://gazpacho.sicem.biz/
Documentation
=============
Kiwi provides API documentation generated by epydoc, it can be found at
http://www.async.com.br/projects/kiwi/api/
Included in the tarball are also a number of examples, which serves as a
good starting point. Keep in mind that most of them require gazpacho to
be installed.
Thanks
======
Christian Robottom Reis: Original author and design
Lorenzo Gil Sanchez: PyGTK 2.x port
Also thanks to the following people which has contributed features
or bug reports:
Ali Afshar, Henrique Romano, Daniel Saran R. da Cunha, Evandro Vale
Miquelito, Gustavo Barbieri, Gustavo Carneiro, Sidnei da Silva
Patrick O'Brien
Resources
=========
Homepage http://www.async.com.br/projects/kiwi/
Download http://www.async.com.br/projects/kiwi/download/
Repository http://svn.async.com.br/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/kiwi/
Report a bug http://bugs.async.com.br/enter_bug.cgi?product=Kiwi
API docs http://www.async.com.br/projects/kiwi/api/
Open bugs http://tinyurl.com/cyrms
Mail. list http://www.async.com.br/mailman/listinfo/kiwi/
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model-view-controller
[2] http://tinyurl.com/2ccch
[3] http://epydoc.sourceforge.net/
--
Johan Dahlin