nodebox / nodebox-pyobjc

Create 2D visuals in Python.

NodeBox

NodeBox is an application used in graphic design research. It provides an interactive Python environment where you can create two-dimensional graphics. NodeBox scripts can create PDFs or QuickTime movies that can contain anything from simple geometrical shapes to fully-fledged bitmaps, vector images and text.

NodeBox is mostly meant to design and explore generative design and animation. It features several ways to manipulate parameters inside of a program: it contains an interface builder and an on-the-fly value changing gizmo called the throttle.

http://nodebox.net/

Credits

NodeBox itself is written by Frederik De Bleser. ([email protected]) The NodeBox manual is written by Tom De Smedt. ([email protected])

NodeBox is a fork of DrawBot (http://drawbot.com) by Just van Rossum ([email protected]), which is released under a MIT-style license.

Contributing

The NodeBox source is available on GitHub:

http://github.com/nodebox/nodebox-pyobjc

nodebox-pyobjc's Issues

noclear / background clear=False

I'm implementing a feature[1] in shoebot to allow the user to preserve what was drawn in the previous frame.

I think the API will look like this:

noclear() 
background(clear=False)

Although maybe something like this could be an alternative:
background(preserve=True)

It would be good to keep the nodebox1 implementations in sync, let me know what you think.

[1]
shoebot/shoebot#235
Suggested by @azbulutlu after we did a shoebot workshop a couple of years ago at LibreGraphicsMeeting.

Support Mac OS X 10.5 - 10.7.

We would like to support all versions from 10.5 - 10.7.

To make NodeBox work on 10.7 we compiled it on 10.7. So that's good.

However, now it fails on 10.5, with:

Library not loaded: /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Python
Referenced from: /Users/nodebox/Downloads/NodeBox/NodeBox.app/Contents/MacOS/NodeBox
Reason: image not found

Missing LICENSE file

While researching graph visualization programming libraries, I came across this project.
However fast skimming website let me to "open source" phrases but no legal binding specifics about licensing.

Could you please consider adding some permissive (like Public Domain, MIT or BSD or Apache) license to this project?
IMHO Adding it to root of repository as LICENSE file will be canonical and easiest to spot.
Thanks!
Greg

Suggestion: Colored output on console

It is a suggestion of no importance
but it would be nice to have colored output on console
like print '\033[31m=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=\033[0m'

TranslateMixin defines translate() twice

https://github.com/nodebox/nodebox-pyobjc/blob/master/nodebox/graphics/cocoa.py#L147

Canvas cannot be scrolled unless using a mouse

On OS X 10.8, the scrollbars disappear in the canvas when only using the trackpad. Make sure you can use the trackpad to scroll.

Create ellipse() as an alias for oval()

Ellipse is the correct term for the thing we're drawing. Ellipse is also supported in NOGL and NodeBox 2.

opening files on Yosemite. only absolute paths seems to work

Most of the time on 10.10 I have to use u"/Users/dd/Desktop/Estadao/act/paleta.act"
because it doesn't find with relative path "act/paleta.act"
I love Nodebox 1 (Codebox) and hope it is not dead yet :)

Add cap and join style to bezier path.

The BezierPath class should support cap style (butt, round or square) and join style (miter, round, bevel).

NSBezierPath implements cap style and join style, so supporting this is a matter of making the attributes available in the appropriate places:

• The cap style and join style should be context state variables, available under capstyle() and joinstyle()
• The BezierPath should inherit these state variables when creating a new bezier path.
• The BezierPath should have getters / setters for cap style and join style.
• The BezierPath constructor should accept capstyle and joinstyle arguments.