README.rst

TraitsUI: Traits-capable windowing framework

The TraitsUI project contains a toolkit-independent GUI abstraction layer, which is used to support the "visualization" features of the Traits package. Thus, you can write model in terms of the Traits API and specify a GUI in terms of the primitives supplied by TraitsUI (views, items, editors, etc.), and let TraitsUI and your selected toolkit and back-end take care of the details of displaying them.

The following GUI backends are supported:

• PyQt
• wxPython
• PySide

Warning: In TraitsUI version 5.0 the default GUI backend was changed from wx to qt4.

Example

Given a Traits model like the following:

from traits.api import HasTraits, Str, Range, Enum

class Person(HasTraits):
    name = Str('Jane Doe')
    age = Range(low=0)
    gender = Enum('female', 'male')

person = Person(age=30)

we can use TraitsUI to specify a and display a GUI view:

from traitsui.api import Item, RangeEditor, View

person_view = View(
    Item('name'),
    Item('gender'),
    Item('age', editor=RangeEditor(mode='spinner')),
    buttons=['OK', 'Cancel'],
    resizable=True,
)

person.configure_traits(view=person_view)

which creates a GUI which looks like this:

Prerequisites

If you want to run traitsui, you must also install:

• traits
• pyface

along with one of the GUI backends.

Running the Test Suite

To run the test suite, install `Invoke http://www.pyinvoke.org/`_ and `EDM http://docs.enthought.com/edm/`_ and follow the instructions in tasks.py. In particular:

> invoke test_all

will run tests in all supported environments automatically.