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Kivy: Interactive Applications in Python

You're reading from  Kivy: Interactive Applications in Python

Product type Book
Published in Sep 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783281596
Pages 138 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Roberto Ulloa Roberto Ulloa
Profile icon Roberto Ulloa

Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Kivy: Interactive Applications in Python
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. GUI Basics – Building an Interface 2. Graphics – The Canvas 3. Widget Events – Binding Actions 4. Improving the User Experience 5. Invaders Revenge – An Interactive Multitouch Game Index

Scatter – multitouching to drag, rotate, and scale


In the previous chapter you learned how to use events to drag widgets. You learned how to use the on_touch_up, on_touch_move and on_touch_down events. However, the Scatter class already provides that functionality and also lets us scale and rotate using two fingers. All the functionality is included inside the Scatter class, however, we need to apply a few changes to keep our project consistent. In particular, we still want our group mode to work, so that translating, scaling, and rotating can be happening at the same time. Let us implement the changes in four big steps in the comicwidgets.py file:

  1. Substitute in the DraggableWidget base class. Let's use Scatter instead of RelativeLayout (line 122 and 125):

    121. # File name: comicwidgets.py
    122. from kivy.uix.scatter import Scatter
    123. from kivy.graphics import Line
    124. 
    125. class DraggableWidget(Scatter):

    Note

    Both, Scatter and RelativeLayout use relative coordinates.

  2. Make sure that the on_touch_down...

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