Dialogs

Jython-Swingutils provides a friendlier interface for displaying some common dialogs.

Basic dialogs

The swingutils.dialogs.basic module offers a slightly more convenient api for showing some basic dialogs:

from swingutils.dialogs.basic import showErrorDialog, showWarningDialog, showMessageDialog

showErrorDialog('Something terrible has happened!')

showWarningDialog('This could be bad...!')

showMessageDialog('Hello there', 'Random message')

If your application’s language is not English, and you wish to override the default titles, you can do this:

from functools import partial

showErrorDialog = partial(showErrorDialog, title='Fehler')

File chooser dialogs

The file chooser dialogs provide you with the following enhancements over the standard Java ones:

• Dialogs remember the last directory a file was saved to / opened from
• Save dialogs automatically fill in the file suffix if it’s missing
• Easy file filters, without having to create your own FileFilter subclasses

Examples:

from swingutils.preferences import getUserPrefs
from swingutils.dialogs.filechooser import showOpenDialog, showSaveDialog, SimpleFileFilter

prefs = getUserPrefs('/some/example/app')
txtFilter = SimpleFileFilter('.txt', None, 'Text files')
files = showOpenDialog(txtFilter, prefs=prefs, prefkey='loadedFiles', multiselect=True)

file = showSaveDialog(txtFilter, prefs=prefs, prefkey='savedFiles')