[Configobj-develop] GUI editor that can be integrated into PyQt applications

[Stefan P. <pa...@ik...>]

Hi all,

I made a graphical interface for editing configobj-based configs in my
own graphical applications and I thought it might be useful for others
as well.
It's made using PyQt so probably your application also needs to use
this toolkit, although I guess it's theoretically possible to mix Qt
and GTK+ code nowadays.
The code should work on all platforms where PyQt works (Linux,
Windows, MacOS X, ...)

The project can be found at https://github.com/pafcu/ConfigObj-GUI.

Currently the editor looks like this:
https://github.com/pafcu/ConfigObj-GUI/wiki/Screenshots

An example program:
	
	import sys
	from PyQt4.QtGui import QApplication
	import configobj
	import configobj_gui

	app = QApplication(sys.argv)

	spec = configobj.ConfigObj('yourspecfile', list_values=False)
	conf = configobj.ConfigObj('yourconffile', configspec=spec)

	wnd = configobj_gui.ConfigWindow(conf, spec)
	wnd.show()

	app.exec_()
	print conf

There are still some limitations, like not being able to add new
sections (coming at some point). There are also a few small, mostly
graphics related, bugs. The grey text is supposed to symbolize default
values, but it looks a bit like the controls are disabled. There
probably are a lot of bigger bugs as well since the code has not been
tested very much.

-- 
Stefan Parviainen