cairotft

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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

• create a virtualenv::

  pyvenv-3.4 ~/.virtualenvs/cairotft source ~/.virtualenvs/cairotft/bin/activate

• install the package::

  pip install cairotft

from sources

• clone the repo::

  git clone https://github.com/LinkCareServices/cairotft.git cd cairotft

• create a virtualenv::

  pyvenv-3.4 ~/.virtualenvs/cairotft source ~/.virtualenvs/cairotft/bin/activate

• install::

  python setup.py install

• and for development::

  python setup.py develop

• 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