cairotft
cairotft is a small module for Python (3.4+) used to draw interface on tft screen using the framebuffer interface.
It's first designed for tft screens, but cairotft can draw interface on any framebuffer interface; like the default /dev/fb0 on linux consoles.
Licence
cairotft is free software made available under a BSD license. See LICENSE.txt
Fonctionnalities
- support python 3.4 (only tested on python 3.4 for now)
- support double-buffering
- included with widgets:
- blick icon
- text marquee
- included animation transitions formulas like mootools.Fx.Transitions
- uses asyncio event loop
- ... (more in the future)
Documentation
See the full documentation on readthedocs: http://cairotft.readthedocs.org
Installation
from pypi
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create a virtualenv:
pyvenv-3.4 ~/.virtualenvs/cairotft source ~/.virtualenvs/cairotft/bin/activate
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install the package:
pip install cairotft
from sources
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clone the repo:
git clone https://github.com/LinkCareServices/cairotft.git cd cairotft
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create a virtualenv:
pyvenv-3.4 ~/.virtualenvs/cairotft source ~/.virtualenvs/cairotft/bin/activate
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install:
python setup.py install
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and for development:
python setup.py develop
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and (eventually) development dependencies:
pip install --upgrade -r dev-requirements.txt
Running tests
tests
install tests and developpement requirements:
pip install -r dev-requirements.txt
on the main cairotft directory run the tests:
nosetests
or with verbosity:
nosetests -v