Installation
Platform: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
1) Installing python package manager: pip
sudo apt-get install python-pip
2) Installing htmlPy
pip install htmlPy
3) Installing PySide
sudo apt-get install python-pyside
4) Installing jinja2, which is depended by htmlPy.
sudo pip install jinja2
5) Installing PyQt4
sudo apt-get install python-qt4
A simple demo
Assume that there is a file named “index.html” in the same path.
import htmlPy
import os
app = htmlPy.AppGUI(title=u"htmlPy Quickstart", maximized=True)
app.template_path = os.path.abspath(".")
app.static_path = os.path.abspath(".")
app.template = ("index.html", {"username": "htmlPy_user"})
app.start()
Modularization
The driver file structure should be:
- Initial configurations
- htmlPy GUI initialization
- htmlPy GUI configuration
- Binding of back-end functionalities with GUI a. Import back-end functionalities b. Bind imported functionalities
- Instructions for running front-end in if __name__ \=\= “__main__“: conditional. Always keep the GUI starter code in the
if __name__ == “__main__”:conditional. The GUI has to be started only when the driver file is running, not when it is being imported
import os
import htmlPy
from PyQt4 import QtGui
# Initial confiurations
BASE_DIR = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
# GUI initializations
app = htmlPy.AppGUI(title=u"Application", maximized=True, plugins=True)
# GUI configurations
app.static_path = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "static/")
app.template_path = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "templates/")
app.web_app.setMinimumWidth(1024)
app.web_app.setMinimumHeight(768)
app.window.setWindowIcon(QtGui.QIcon(BASE_DIR + "/static/img/icon.png"))
# Binding of back-end functionalities with GUI
# Import back-end functionalities
from html_to_python import ClassName
# Register back-end functionalities
app.bind(ClassName())
# Instructions for running application
if __name__ == "__main__":
# The driver file will have to be imported everywhere in back-end.
# So, always keep app.start() in if __name__ == "__main__" conditional
app.start()