### Copyright (C) 2002-2006 Stephen Kennedy ### This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify ### it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by ### the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or ### (at your option) any later version. ### This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, ### but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of ### MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the ### GNU General Public License for more details. ### You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License ### along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software ### Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA ### Modified August 2007 by Damon Lynch to allow use of list value preferences """Module to help implement 'instant-apply' preferences. Usage: import prefs defaults = { "colour" : prefs.Value(prefs.STRING, "red") "size" : prefs.Value(prefs.INT, 10) } p = prefs.Preferences("/apps/myapp", defaults) # use variables as if they were normal attributes. draw(p.colour, p.size) # settings are persistent. (saved in gconf) p.color = "blue" """ class Value(object): """Represents a settable preference. """ __slots__ = ["type", "default", "current"] def __init__(self, t, d): """Create a value. t : a string : one of ("bool", "int", "string", "list") d : the default value, also the initial value """ self.type = t self.default = d self.current = d def setfunc(self, gconf, rootkey, attr): setfunc = getattr(gconf, "set_%s" % self.type) setfunc("%s/%s" % (rootkey, attr), self.current) def getfunc(self, gconf, rootkey, attr): getfunc = getattr(gconf, "get_%s" % self.type) return getfunc("%s/%s" % (rootkey, attr)) class ListValue(Value): """ Represents a list type settable preference. """ __slots__ = Value.__slots__ + ["list_type"] def __init__(self, list_type, d): """ Create a list value. d : the default value, also the initial value list_type: the type of elements the list contains """ Value.__init__(self, LIST, d) self.list_type = list_type def setfunc(self, gconf, rootkey, attr): setfunc = getattr(gconf, "set_list") setfunc("%s/%s" % (rootkey, attr), self.list_type, self.current) def getfunc(self, gconf, rootkey, attr): getfunc = getattr(gconf, "get_list") return getfunc("%s/%s" % (rootkey, attr), self.list_type) # maybe fall back to ConfigParser if gconf is unavailable. import gconf # types of values allowed BOOL = "bool" INT = "int" STRING = "string" FLOAT = "float" LIST = "list" # PAIR = "pair" STRING_LIST = gconf.VALUE_STRING INT_LIST = gconf.VALUE_INT BOOL_LIST = gconf.VALUE_BOOL FLOAT_LIST = gconf.VALUE_FLOAT ## class Preferences(object): """Persistent preferences object. Example: import prefs defaults = {"spacing": prefs.Value(prefs.INT, 4), "font": prefs.Value(prefs.STRING, "monospace") } p = prefs.Prefs("myapp", defaults) print p.font p.font = "sans" # written to gconf too p2 = prefs.Prefs("myapp", defaults) print p.font # prints "sans" """ def __init__(self, rootkey, initial): """Create a preferences object. Settings are initialised with 'initial' and then overriden from values in the gconf database if available. rootkey : the root gconf key where the values will be stored initial : a dictionary of string to Value objects. """ self.__dict__["_gconf"] = gconf.client_get_default() self.__dict__["_listeners"] = [] self.__dict__["_rootkey"] = rootkey self.__dict__["_prefs"] = initial self._gconf.add_dir(rootkey, gconf.CLIENT_PRELOAD_NONE) self._gconf.notify_add(rootkey, self._on_preference_changed) for key, value in self._prefs.items(): gval = self._gconf.get_without_default("%s/%s" % (rootkey, key) ) if gval != None: value.current = value.getfunc(self._gconf, rootkey, key) def __getattr__(self, attr): return self._prefs[attr].current def get_default(self, attr): return self._prefs[attr].default def __setattr__(self, attr, val): value = self._prefs[attr] if value.current != val: value.current = val value.setfunc(self._gconf, self._rootkey, attr) try: for l in self._listeners: l(attr,val) except StopIteration: pass def _on_preference_changed(self, client, timestamp, entry, extra): attr = entry.key[ entry.key.rindex("/")+1 : ] try: valuestruct = self._prefs[attr] except KeyError: # unknown key, we don't care about it pass else: if entry.value != None: # value has changed newval = valuestruct.getfunc(self._gconf, self._rootkey, attr) setattr( self, attr, newval) else: # value has been deleted setattr( self, attr, valuestruct.default ) def notify_add(self, callback): """Register a callback to be called when a preference changes. callback : a callable object which take two parameters, 'attr' the name of the attribute changed and 'val' the new value. """ self._listeners.append(callback) def dump(self): """Print all preferences. """ for k,v in self._prefs.items(): print k, v.type, v.current