GuiApp

Inherits App

Synopsis

This class is used for GUI application instances. See detailed description…

Functions

Detailed Description

See App for the documentation of base functionalities of this class.

To create a new modal dialog , use the createModalDialog() function.

Several functions are made available to pop dialogs to ask the user for filename(s) or colors. See getFilenameDialog(filters,location) and getRGBColorDialog().

To create a new custom python panel, there are several ways to do it:

  • Sub-class the PyPanel class and make your own PySide widget
  • Create a PyPanel object and add controls using user parameters (as done for modal dialogs)

Once created, you can register the panel in the project so that it gets saved into the layout by calling registerPythonPanel(panel,pythonFunction)

Member functions description

NatronGui.GuiApp.createModalDialog()
Return type:PyModalDialog

Creates a modal dialog : the control will not be returned to the user until the dialog is not closed. Once the dialog is created, you can enrich it with parameters or even raw PySide Qt widgets. To show the dialog call the function exec() on the dialog.

NatronGui.GuiApp.getFilenameDialog(filters[, location=None])
Parameters:
  • filterssequence
  • locationstr
Return type:

str

Opens-up a file dialog to ask the user for a single filename which already exists.

filters is a list of file extensions that should be displayed in the file dialog.

location is the initial location the dialog should display, unless it is empty in which case the dialog will display the last location that was opened previously by a dialog.

NatronGui.GuiApp.getSequenceDialog(filters[, location=None])
Parameters:
  • filterssequence
  • locationstr
Return type:

str

Same as getFilenameDialog(filters,location) but the dialog will accept sequence of files.

NatronGui.GuiApp.getDirectoryDialog([location=None])
Parameters:locationstr
Return type:str

Same as getFilenameDialog(filters,location) but the dialog will only accept directories as a result.

NatronGui.GuiApp.saveFilenameDialog(filters[, location=None])
Parameters:
  • filterssequence
  • locationstr
Return type:

str

Opens-up a file dialog to ask the user for a single filename. If the file already exists, the user will be warned about potential overriding of the file.

filters is a list of file extensions that should be displayed in the file dialog.

location is the initial location the dialog should display, unless it is empty in which case the dialog will display the last location that was opened previously by a dialog.

NatronGui.GuiApp.saveSequenceDialog(filters[, location=None])
Parameters:
  • filterssequence
  • locationstr
Return type:

str

Same as saveFilenameDialog(filters,location) but the dialog will accept sequence of files.

NatronGui.GuiApp.getRGBColorDialog()
Return type:ColorTuple

Opens-up a color dialog to ask the user for an RGB color.

NatronGui.GuiApp.getTabWidget(scriptName)
Parameters:scriptNamestr
Return type:PyTabWidget

Returns the tab-widget with the given scriptName. The scriptName of a tab-widget can be found in the user interface when hovering with the mouse the “Manage layout” button (in the top left-hand corner of the pane)

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NatronGui.GuiApp.moveTab(tabScriptName, pane)
Parameters:
  • tabScriptNamestr
  • panePyTabWidget
Return type:

bool

Attempts to move the tab with the given tabScriptName into the given pane and make it current in the pane. This function returns True upon success or False otherwise.

Warning

Moving tabs that are not registered to the application via registerPythonPanel(panel,pythonFunction) will not work.

NatronGui.GuiApp.registerPythonPanel(panel, pythonFunction)
Parameters:
  • panelPyPanel
  • scriptNamestr

Registers the given panel into the project. When registered, the panel will be saved into the layout for the current project and a new entry in the “Panes” sub-menu of the “Manage layouts” button (in the top left-hand corner of each tab widget) will appear for this panel. pythonFunction is the name of a python-defined function that takes no argument that should be used to re-create the panel.

NatronGui.GuiApp.unregisterPythonPanel(panel)
Parameters:panelPyPanel

Unregisters a previously registered panel.

NatronGui.GuiApp.getSelectedNodes([group = None])
Return type:sequence

Returns a sequence of nodes currently selected in the given group. You can pass the app object to get the top-level NodeGraph. If passing None, the last user-selected NodeGraph will be used:

topLevelSelection = app.getSelectedNodes()

group = app.createNode("fr.inria.built-in.Group")

groupSelection = app.getSelectedNodes(group)
NatronGui.GuiApp.getViewer(scriptName)
Parameters:scriptNamestr

Returns the viewer with the given scriptName if one can be found.

NatronGui.GuiApp.getUserPanel(scriptName)
Parameters:scriptNamestr

Returns a user panel matching the given scriptName if there is any.

NatronGui.GuiApp.selectNode(node, clearPreviousSelection)
Parameters:
  • nodeEffect
  • clearPreviousSelectionbool

Select the given node in its containing nodegraph. If clearPreviousSelection is set to True, all the current selection will be wiped prior to selecting the node; otherwise the node will just be added to the selection.

NatronGui.GuiApp.deselectNode(node)
Parameters:nodeEffect

Deselect the given node in its containing nodegraph. If the node is not selected, this function does nothing.

NatronGui.GuiApp.setSelection(nodes)
Parameters:nodessequence

Set all the given nodes selected in the nodegraph containing them and wipe any current selection.

Note

All nodes must be part of the same nodegraph (group), otherwise this function will fail.

NatronGui.GuiApp.selectAllNodes([group=None])
Parameters:groupGroup

Select all nodes in the given group. You can pass the app object to get the top-level NodeGraph. If passing None, the last user-selected NodeGraph will be used.

NatronGui.GuiApp.copySelectedNodes([group=None])
Parameters:groupGroup

Copy all nodes in the given group. You can pass the app object to get the top-level NodeGraph. If passing None, the last user-selected NodeGraph will be used.

NatronGui.GuiApp.pasteNodes([group=None])
Parameters:groupGroup

Paste copied nodes in the given group. You can pass the app object to get the top-level NodeGraph. If passing None, the last user-selected NodeGraph will be used.

NatronGui.GuiApp.clearSelection([group=None])

Wipe any current selection in the given group. You can pass the app object to get the top-level NodeGraph. If passing None, the last user-selected NodeGraph will be used.

NatronGui.GuiApp.renderBlocking(effect, firstFrame, lastFrame, frameStep)
Parameters:
  • effectEffect
  • firstFrameint
  • lastFrameint
  • frameStepint

Starts rendering the given effect on the frame-range defined by [firstFrame,*lastFrame*]. The frameStep parameter indicates how many frames the timeline should step after rendering each frame. The value must be greater or equal to 1. The frameStep parameter is optional and if not given will default to the value of the Frame Increment parameter in the Write node.

For instance:

render(effect,1,10,2)

Would render the frames 1,3,5,7,9

This is a blocking function. A blocking render means that this function returns only when the render finishes (from failure or success).

This function should only be used to render with a Write node or DiskCache node.

NatronGui.GuiApp.renderBlocking(tasks)
Parameters:taskssequence

This function takes a sequence of tuples of the form (effect,firstFrame,lastFrame[,frameStep]) The frameStep is optional in the tuple and if not set will default to the value of the Frame Increment parameter in the Write node.

This is an overloaded function. Same as render(effect,firstFrame,lastFrame,frameStep) but all tasks will be rendered concurrently.

This function is called when rendering a script in background mode with multiple writers.

This is a blocking call.