BUI - week's development + Introduction to Python doc

As mentioned in the last Friday's post the week indeed was pretty busy. I did manage to develop BUI a bit though. Nathan "jesterKing" Letwory tested BUI in a project of his. Feedback has been positive so far. He also contributed the first patch for the project. The patch added Number and IntNumber elements for Blender.

I also made it possible to assign events to key presses. Example:

structure_keys = '''
a: add_monkey # assigns event add_monkey to press of a
d: delete_all # same idea here
s:
  press: do_something # assigns an event to press of s
  release: do_something_else # assigns an event to release of s
'''

So by default events are mapped to press. Should you want to attach an event to key release, use the syntax described above. Note that it should work even without press portion.

I also fixed a bug related to hiding individual elements (it was possible to hide only containers before). I also added Fill element that will eventually replace both EmptyElement and EmptyContainer. Furthermore I restructured the code a bit and got rid of some nasty parts. There is still some cleaning up to do though.

As an interesting sidenote I found something quite similar to BUI, at least if you look at the way the user interface is defined. So check out IUP (http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/iup/). The nice thing about this discovery is that I might be able to find use for some of their ideas in BUI (Z-container, more elements?). :)

Also during the week I finished a brief documentation about Python. It is available at http://bebraw.googlepages.com/introductiontopython.pdf . Basically Introduction to Python is a crash course to Python in an object oriented way. It helps if you happen to know something about the paradigm already. Even if you don't it might give you some clue about it. It would probably make sense to "bloggify" the whole thing at some point and make it more beginner friendly but we'll see about that.