June 2015
Intermediate to advanced
206 pages
4h 32m
English
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LoadDialog – displaying a directory of files
In this section, we will discuss how to display a directory tree in Kivy in order to select a file. First, we will define the interface in loaddialog.kv:
390. # File name: loaddialog.kv 391. <LoadDialog>: 392. BoxLayout: 393. size: root.size 394. pos: root.pos 395. orientation: "vertical" 396. FileChooserListView: 397. id: filechooser 398. path: './' 399. BoxLayout: 400. size_hint_y: None 401. height: 30 402. Button: 403. text: "Cancel" 404. on_release: root.cancel() 405. Button: 406. text: "Load" 407. on_release: root.load(filechooser.path, filechooser.selection)
There is nothing new in this code except for the use of the FileChooserListView widget. It will display the directory tree of files. The
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