zeroinstall/gtkui/help_box.py

   1 """A dialog box for displaying help text."""
   2 # Copyright (C) 2009, Thomas Leonard
   3 # See the README file for details, or visit http://0install.net.
   4
   5 from zeroinstall import _
   6 import gtk
   7
   8 class HelpBox:
   9         """A dialog for showing longish help texts.
  10         The GTK widget is not created until L{display} is called.
  11         """
  12         box = None
  13         title = None
  14         sections = None
  15
  16         def __init__(self, title, *sections):
  17                 """Constructor.
  18                 @param title: window title
  19                 @param sections: the content, as a list of (section_title, section_body) pairs
  20                 @type sections: [(str, str)]"""
  21                 self.title = title
  22                 self.sections = sections
  23
  24         def display(self):
  25                 """Display this help text. If it is already displayed, close the old window first."""
  26                 if self.box:
  27                         self.box.destroy()
  28                         assert not self.box
  29
  30                 self.box = box = gtk.Dialog()
  31                 self.box.set_has_separator(False)
  32                 self.box.set_position(gtk.WIN_POS_CENTER)
  33                 box.set_title(self.title)
  34                 box.set_has_separator(False)
  35
  36                 swin = gtk.ScrolledWindow(None, None)
  37                 swin.set_policy(gtk.POLICY_AUTOMATIC, gtk.POLICY_ALWAYS)
  38                 swin.set_shadow_type(gtk.SHADOW_IN)
  39                 swin.set_border_width(2)
  40                 box.vbox.pack_start(swin, True, True)
  41
  42                 text = gtk.TextView()
  43                 text.set_left_margin(4)
  44                 text.set_right_margin(4)
  45                 text.set_wrap_mode(gtk.WRAP_WORD)
  46                 text.set_editable(False)
  47                 text.set_cursor_visible(False)
  48                 model = text.get_buffer()
  49                 titer = model.get_start_iter()
  50                 heading_style = model.create_tag(underline = True, scale = 1.2)
  51
  52                 first = True
  53                 for title, body in self.sections:
  54                         if first:
  55                                 first = False
  56                         else:
  57                                 model.insert(titer, '\n\n')
  58                         model.insert_with_tags(titer, title, heading_style)
  59                         model.insert(titer, '\n' + body.strip())
  60                 swin.add(text)
  61
  62                 swin.show_all()
  63
  64                 box.add_button(gtk.STOCK_CLOSE, gtk.RESPONSE_CANCEL)
  65                 box.connect('response', lambda box, resp: box.destroy())
  66
  67                 box.set_default_response(gtk.RESPONSE_CANCEL)
  68
  69                 def destroyed(box):
  70                         self.box = None
  71                 box.connect('destroy', destroyed)
  72
  73                 box.set_position(gtk.WIN_POS_CENTER)
  74                 box.set_default_size(gtk.gdk.screen_width() / 4,
  75                                       gtk.gdk.screen_height() / 3)
  76                 box.show()