Getting started

Choosing the structure of the application

Plasta is not subject to a defined structure, while respecting the structure of the object plasta, the rest is up to you is maintained. Anyway we show two possible structures that you can use:

Simple structure

/myapp
  /object1
  /object2
  /object3
  mainwindow.py  # controlling class of the main window
  mainwindow.ui  # ui file of the main window
  run.py         # running the application

You can download this structure from here.

MVC structure type

/myapp
  /models
  .  /object1
  .  .  __init__.py # storm class
  .  .  manager.py  # manager class of objeto1
  .  .  gui.py      # gui class of objeto1
  .  .  add.py      # add class of objeto1
  .  .  add.ui      # ui file of objeto1 form
  .  /object2
  .  /object3
  /gui
  .  mainwindow.py  # controlling class of the main window
  .  mainwindow.ui  # ui file of the main window
  /mvc
  .  controller.py  # database configurations
  .  models.py      # instances of Manager classes
  .  views.py       # instances of GUI classes
  run.py            # running the application

You can download this structure from here.

Plasta generator

Plasta comes with a generator for the following operations:

Generate package for a model

> python plastagen g crud [OPTIONS] NAMEMODEL [ATTRIBUTES]

Options: -ui: along with the model generates the ui file -s: generates storm file only -m: generates manager file only -g: generates gui file only * -a: generates add file only

Attributes:

To indicate type attributes, follow the directions in the following table:

Attribute type	Related widget
unicode (default)	QLineEdit
int	QSpinBox
float	QDoubleSpinBox
date	QDateEdit
datetime	QDateTimeEdit
bool	QCheckBox

Format to use: attribute:type e.g: name birthday:date isActived:bool

Examples of use:

> python plastagen g crud -ui person name lastname address birthday:date sex

Result: will generate the 4 classess and the ui file

> python plastagen g crud -s -m person name lastname address sex

Result: will generate the package only with the Storm and Manager classes

Generate ui file for a form

> python plastagen g ui [ATTRIBUTES]

Example of use:

> python plastagen g ui name lastname email

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