Module: QtAppModule

When this module is enabled, there is guaranteed to be a QApplication instance. It doesn't guarantee that that QApplication did initialize the GUI, though.

Type:	qtApp
Uses (at least one of):	GuiModule >
Requires (at least one of):

Properties:

active
disable
enable

Files

/qtApp.py

#! /usr/bin/env python3
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

#	Copyright 2012, 2017, Marten de Vries
#
#	This file is part of OpenTeacher.
#
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import contextlib

class QtAppModule:
	"""When this module is enabled, there is guaranteed to be a
	   QApplication instance. It **doesn't** guarantee that that
	   QApplication did initialize the GUI, though.

	"""
	def __init__(self, moduleManager, *args, **kwargs):
		super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
		self._mm = moduleManager

		self.type = "qtApp"
		self.uses = (
			self._mm.mods(type="ui"),
		)

	def enable(self):
		try:
			from PyQt5 import QtCore
		except ImportError:
			return
		if not QtCore.QCoreApplication.instance():
			#not handled by the ui module. That means that we need a
			#non-gui qapplication
			self._app = QtCore.QCoreApplication([])
		self.active = True

	def disable(self):
		self.active = False

		with contextlib.suppress(AttributeError):
			del self._app

def init(moduleManager):
	return QtAppModule(moduleManager)