Tool Buttons Example

An example demonstrating the use of ToolBar buttons.

This example shows how ToolBar buttons can be used both as children of a ToolBar and as regular widgets in a Container. It also demonstrates adding a menu to a ToolButton along with the various modes for configuring popup behavior.

Tip

To see this example in action, download it from tool_buttons and run:

$ enaml-run tool_buttons.enaml

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Example Enaml Code

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# Copyright (c) 2014, Nucleic Development Team.
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# Distributed under the terms of the Modified BSD License.
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# The full license is in the file LICENSE, distributed with this software.
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""" An example demonstrating the use of ToolBar buttons.

This example shows how ToolBar buttons can be used both as children of
a ToolBar and as regular widgets in a Container. It also demonstrates
adding a menu to a ToolButton along with the various modes for
configuring popup behavior.

<< autodoc-me >>
"""
import os

from enaml.icon import Icon, IconImage
from enaml.image import Image
from enaml.layout.api import hbox, vbox
from enaml.widgets.api import (
	MainWindow, Container, ToolBar, ToolButton, Menu, Action, Html, Field
)


def load_icon(name):
	dirname = os.path.dirname(__file__)
	fname = os.path.join(dirname, 'images', '%s.png' % name)
	with open(fname, 'rb') as f:
		data = f.read()
	img = Image(data=data)
	icg = IconImage(image=img)
	return Icon(images=[icg])


NEW_ICON = load_icon('document-new')
OPEN_ICON = load_icon('document-open')
SETTINGS_ICON = load_icon('emblem-system')
ADD_ICON = load_icon('list-add')
REMOVE_ICON = load_icon('list-remove')
SEARCH_ICON = load_icon('system-search')
BACK_ICON = load_icon('go-previous')


enamldef Main(MainWindow):
	title = 'Tool Buttons'
	ToolBar:
		ToolButton:
			text = 'New'
			icon = NEW_ICON
			button_style = 'text_beside_icon'
			popup_mode = 'button'
			Menu:
				Action:
					text = 'File'
				Action:
					text = 'Directory'
				Action:
					text = 'Share'
		Action:
			text = 'Open'
			icon = OPEN_ICON
		Action:
			separator = True
		Action:
			text = 'Settings'
			icon = SETTINGS_ICON
		Action:
			text = 'Add'
			icon = ADD_ICON
		Action:
			text = 'Remove'
			icon = REMOVE_ICON
	Container:
		constraints = [vbox(hbox(back, 1, field, 1, search), html)]
		ToolButton: back:
			text = 'Back'
			icon = BACK_ICON
			Menu:
				Action:
					text = 'First'
				Action:
					text = 'Second'
				Action:
					text = 'Third'
		ToolButton: search:
			text = 'Search'
			icon = SEARCH_ICON
			popup_mode = 'instant'
			Menu:
				Action:
					text = 'Google'
				Action:
					text = 'Bing'
				Action:
					text = 'Yahoo'
		Field: field:
			placeholder = 'Search...'
		Html: html:
			source = '<h1><center>Hello</center></h1>'