navigate.controller.sub_controllers.gui.GUIController

class navigate.controller.sub_controllers.gui.GUIController(view: Any, parent_controller: Optional = None)

Bases: object

Base class for GUI controllers

__init__(view: Any, parent_controller: Optional = None) → None

Initializes GUI controller

Parameters:

• view (Any) – GUI view

• parent_controller (Controller) – parent controller

Methods

__init__(view[, parent_controller])	Initializes GUI controller
execute(command, *args)	This function is called when a command is passed from a child process.
initialize()	This function is called when the controller is initialized
register_event_listener(event_name, ...)	Register event listener in the parent_controller
set_experiment_values()	Sets values of widgets based on experiment setting
show_verbose_info(*info)	Prints verbose information to the console
update_experiment_values()	Collects all the values of widgets

Attributes

custom_events	Custom events for the controller
view	GUI view
parent_controller	parent controller

execute(command, *args)

This function is called when a command is passed from a child process.

Parameters:

• command (str) – command name

• args (tuple) – command arguments

initialize()

This function is called when the controller is initialized

This function initializes GUI based on configuration setting parameter: configuration_controller set range value for entry or spinbox widgets; add values to combobox get other necessary information for configuration.yml

register_event_listener(event_name, event_handler)

Register event listener in the parent_controller

Parameters:

• event_name (str) – event name

• event_handler (function) – event handler

set_experiment_values()

Sets values of widgets based on experiment setting

setting_dict is a dictionary

show_verbose_info(*info)

Prints verbose information to the console

Parameters:

info (tuple) – information to be printed

update_experiment_values()

Collects all the values of widgets

setting_dict is a reference of experiment dictionary update the dictionary directly

property custom_events

Custom events for the controller

parent_controller

parent controller

Type:

Controller

view

GUI view

Type:

tkinter.Tk