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TraitsUI: Traits-capable windowing framework
The TraitsUI project provides a toolkit-independent GUI abstraction layer,
which is used to support the "visualization" features of the
Traits <http://github.com/enthought/traits>
__ package.
You can write a model using the Traits API and specify a GUI using the TraitsUI
API (views, items, editors, etc.), and let TraitsUI and your selected toolkit
back-end (Qt or Wx) take care of the details of displaying them.
Example
Given a Traits model like the following::
from traits.api import HasTraits, Str, Range, Enum
class Person(HasTraits):
name = Str('Jane Doe')
age = Range(low=0)
gender = Enum('female', 'male')
person = Person(age=30)
And using TraitsUI to specify and display a GUI view::
from traitsui.api import Item, RangeEditor, View
person_view = View(
Item('name'),
Item('gender'),
Item('age', editor=RangeEditor(mode='spinner', low=0, high=150)),
buttons=['OK', 'Cancel'],
resizable=True,
)
person.configure_traits(view=person_view)
It creates a GUI which looks like this:
.. image:: https://raw.github.com/enthought/traitsui/main/README_example.png
Important Links
-
Website and Documentation: <http://docs.enthought.com/traitsui>
__
- User Manual
<http://docs.enthought.com/traitsui/traitsui_user_manual>
__ - Tutorial
<http://docs.enthought.com/traitsui/tutorials>
__ - API Documentation
<http://docs.enthought.com/traitsui/api>
__
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Source code repository: <https://github.com/enthought/traitsui>
__
- Issue tracker:
<https://github.com/enthought/traitsui/issues>
__
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Download releases: <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/traitsui>
__
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Mailing list: <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/ets-users>
__
Installation
If you want to run traitsui, you must also install:
- Traits
<https://github.com/enthought/traits>
__ - Pyface
<https://github.com/enthought/pyface>
__
You will also need one of the following backends:
Backends have additional dependencies and there are optional dependencies on
NumPy and Pandas for some editors.
TraitsUI along with all dependencies can be installed in a straightforward way
using the Enthought Deployment Manager <http://docs.enthought.com/edm/>
__,
pip
or other package managers.
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Running the Test Suite
To run the test suite, you will need to install Git and
EDM <http://docs.enthought.com/edm/>
__ as well as have a Python environment
which has install Click <http://click.pocoo.org/>
__ available. You can then
follow the instructions in etstool.py
. In particular::
> python etstool.py test_all
will run tests in all supported environments automatically.