Module guihelper

Various convenience functions and widgets to assist the gui

Classes

LogWindow

Functions

Bool

IsMSWindows()
Are we running on Windows?

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Bool

IsGtk()
Are we running on GTK (Linux)

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Bool

IsMac()
Are we running on Mac

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formatexception(excinfo=None, lastframes=8)
Pretty print exception, including local variable information.

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string

getresourcefile(filename)
Returns name of file by adding it to resource directory pathname

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run(*args)
Execute the command.

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Variables

p = 'c:\\projects\\bitpim\\src'

resourcedirectory = 'c:\\projects\\bitpim\\src\\resources'

Function Details

Pretty print exception, including local variable information.

See Python Cookbook, recipe 14.4.

Parameters:

excinfo - tuple of information returned from sys.exc_info when the exception occurred. If you don't supply this then information about the current exception being handled is used
lastframes - local variables are shown for these number of frames

Returns:

A pretty printed string

Returns name of file by adding it to resource directory pathname

No attempt is made to verify the file exists

Execute the command.

The path is searched