herobank110 / deditor

Python property exposing and editing utility

deditor

Python property exposing and editing utility

Disrupting the industry

Traditionally, configuration files had to be saved somewhere on the hard drive and if you wanted to change a value, you'd have to manually open the text file, and make sure your program re-read the configuration file every time.

With deditor, you simply expose the variables you want as configuration variables and a graphical user interface is generated to let you intuitively tweak values and use them in your program without having to leave Python.

How it works

1. You write your Python code as you normally would.
2. Add DPROPERTY() above the variables you want exposed.
   • Optionally you can add specifiers, like its range: DPROPERTY(range=[0, 10])
3. Run make_html.py to generate an HTML file for editing the values.

Example

Here is an example of DPROPERTYs in action:

from DEditor import DPROPERTY

# This will get exposed to the editor.
DPROPERTY()
attr1 = 0

# This will not be exposed.
attr2 = 0

Interface options

There are two available interface options: Tkinter or HTML.

• Tkinter - included in Python's standard library and can be used to dynamically get the edited values back into your Python script using the included get_values() function.
• HTML - works outside of Python only requiring a web browser to display. The values must be saved in a middle-ground before your Python script can use them again.

Features

These are the features currently supported or coming soon.

• Class variables
• Nested class variables
• Default value expressions
• Renaming variables
• UI clamping and validation (Tkinter)
• UI clamping and validation (HTML)
• Tooltips
• Lists of values