cryptobuks / counterparty-gui

GUI for counterparty-lib

counterparty-gui

Description

counterparty-gui is a PyQT5 GUI for counterparty-lib.

Requirements

• Python 3
• PyQT5
• counterparty-cli
• Bitcoin Core OR btcwallet

Installation and usage

With installer

Download and execute Windows (or MacOS installer) installer.

From source

$ git clone https://github.com/CounterpartyXCP/counterparty-gui.git
$ cd counterparty-gui
$ pip3 install -r requirements.txt
$ python3 setup.py install
$ ./counterparty-gui.py --help

Plugins

In counterparty-gui everything is a plugin. The core application only manages the left menu. Each plugin adds one or more items in this menu. When the user clicks on one of these items, the core application displays the corresponding plugin in the main window.

A plugin is defined by the following conventions:

• it must live in the folder plugins/{PLUGIN_NAME}/

• PLUGIN_NAME folder must contains at least one file index.qml that contains the QML root object

• the root object in index.qml must contains 3 javascript callbacks:

  • init(), called once, when the application initialises plugins.
  • onMenuAction(itemValue), called when the user clicks on a menu item that belongs to the plugin.
  • onMessage(messageName, messageData), for now called only when a new block is parsed by the Counterparty server with messageName equal to new_block.

• the root object in index.qml must contains a property root.menu. It contains the list of items to dsplay in the left menu and can be populated in the init() callback.

• the QML context contains:

  • an instance of CounterpartydAPI (core/api.py) to make any RPC call to the counterpartyd API or the Wallet with Javascript,
  • an instance of GUI (core/gui.py) to display messages or ask confirmations.

Example:

	function sendAsset() {
		// prepare the query
        var query = {
            'method': 'create_send',
            'params': {
                'source':  sendFormComp.source,
                'destination': sendFormComp.destination,
                'asset': root.currentAsset,
                'quantity': sendFormComp.quantity
            }
        }

        // prepare the confirmation message
        var confirmMessage = "Do you really want to send " +
                             sendFormComp.quantity + " " + root.currentAsset +
                             " to " + sendFormComp.destination;

        if (GUI.confirm("Confirm send", confirmMessage)) {
            // Compose transaction
            var unsigned_hex = xcpApi.call(query);
            if (unsigned_hex) {
                // Sign transaction
                var signed_hex = xcpApi.call({'method': 'sign_raw_transaction', 'params': {'tx_hex': unsigned_hex}});
                if (signed_hex) {
                    // Broadcast transaction
                    var tx_hash = xcpApi.call({'method': 'send_raw_transaction', 'params': {'tx_hex': signed_hex}});
                    // display transaction hash
                    if (tx_hash) {
                        GUI.alert("Transaction done", tx_hash);
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }