Introduction

When developing a typical application, we always find common operations that are repeated over and over again. Such as add, edit, delete, list and search. Plasta born to try to reduce development time and maintenance of these applications, providing a common API that implements these operations.

Licence

Plasta is released under the MIT License.

Components

Plasta consists of 4 main components are the 4 base classes of a Plasta package.

Of these 4 classes, 3 are purely heritable: BaseManager, BaseGUI y BaseAdd. At any time you can implement any of its operations to achieve the desired end.

The Storm class

This is where the attributes for a model are defined, as stated in the documentation Storm here. It is the definition of an object / table for persistence in the database.

The BaseManager class

This will be in charge of controlling model objects with which you are working, and where the operations side base logic are defined.

The BaseGUI class

Here they are defined all operations that control the main GUI of a model.

The BaseAdd class

This class has operations to handle the operations of the form add / edit.

Terminologies

Term	Definition
Manager	controlling class of a model
Package	Plasta package composed of four classes
UI	xml file from a Qt window
Widget	Qt visual component

Conventions

For the correctly work of Plasta, must respect these conventions:

Names of the classess

Base class	Example
BaseManager	ClientManager
BaseGUI	ClientGUI
BaseAdd	AddClient

Widgets names in the main screen of a model

Widget name	Widget type
lbTitle	QLabel
btNew	QPushButton
btEdit	QPushButton
btDelete	QPushButton
leSearch	QLineEdit
cbFilters	QComboBox
lbItemsCount	QLabel
twItems	QTableWidget

Widget names in form add/edit

Widget name	Widget type
btSave	QPushButton
btExit	QPushButton

Widget prefixes

Plasta has adopted this prefixes to name widgets of GUI:

Widget	Prefix
QLabel	lb
QLineEdit	le
QComboBox	cb
QSpinBox	sb
QDoubleSpinBox	dsb
QTextEdit	te
QDateEdit	dt
QDateTimeEdit	dte
QTimeEdit	tme
QCheckBox	chk

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