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Kivy Blueprints

Kivy Blueprints

By : Vasilkov
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Kivy Blueprints

Kivy Blueprints

3.7 (10)
By: Vasilkov

Overview of this book

This book is intended for programmers who are comfortable with the Python language and who want to build desktop and mobile applications with rich GUI in Python with minimal hassle. Knowledge of Kivy is not strictly required—every aspect of the framework is described when it's first used.
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A. The Python Ecosystem
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Setting the line thickness

The last and easiest feature that we are going to implement is a simple line thickness selector. As you can see in the following screenshot, we're reusing assets and styles from the previous part, the color palette.

Setting the line thickness

Line width selector

This UI uses yet another RadioButton subclass, unimaginatively named LineWidthButton. Append the following declaration to the paint.kv file:

<LineWidthButton@ColorButton>:
    group: 'line_width'
    on_release: app.canvas_widget.set_line_width(self.text)
    color: C('#2C3E50')
    background_color: C('#ECF0F1')

Key differences from ColorButton are highlighted in the preceding code. These new buttons belong to another radio group and fire another event handler when interacted with. Other than this, they are very similar.

The layout is equally simple, built in the same fashion as that of the color palette, except that it's vertical:

BoxLayout:
    orientation: 'vertical'
    padding...

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