toorusr / customwindow

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CustomWindow

A script that uses windows as pixels and transforms these into one whole new window.

I know, I know, I know, that sounds really insane and I do not want to deny that, but first I want to explain my motivation and my problem why this was developed.

Story and idea

It all started with the fact that I absolutely wanted to have a non-square window developed with python which was in the past the only programming language I knew. So I did a lot of research to find a solution, but there was nothing on the internet to start with at the time. So I tried to find a solution myself.

First idea

My first idea was actually to simply remove the native GUI buttons and use screenshots of the windows below as background of the window. With the help of widgets this window would have at least been rounded. But that wasn't really successful, since the computer performance simply doesn't play along with so many screenshots per second to maintain the transparency which was actually not available for this purpose. Also, there were just too many glitches on the screenshots, which in retrospect was probably due to the library I had used.

Second and last attempt

My last and second idea as well as the one where I lost motivation was to create a lot of windows where only the body could be seen and used as pixels. The moment I thought it would work out, I was thinking that everything would be great and I had almost reached my goal. However, I was wrong. The fact of creating 500 x 500 pixel windows alone, which in total would have been 250000 pixels, should have made me think it over. Unfortunately, this moment came rather late, but I learned from it. So I worked on my idea and implemented it. At some point I had noticed that when I create a lot of windows, even if they are very small, everything starts to jerk. After miserable attempts to eliminate this I gave up my great project.

Lesson

What have I learned from this? So first of course to research more thoroughly and also to think more about the possible result, both I have done only quite roughly. I also learned a lot about python and experimented a lot. Also I learned form it that you learn from almost everything you code, do or read.

Result

Unfortunately I only have my second idea in code form and therefore I have only added this idea to this repository. Nevertheless it doesn't work properly I want to try to explain how the script CustomRoot.py actually works.

Setup

1. Make sure you have python 3.x installed
2. Download the script CustomRoot.py

Do something with it

Now here are two options

1. Figure it out by your self
2. Follow my figuring out

if persons_selection == 1:
    person.figureOut("CustomRoot.py")
elif persons_selection == 2:
    person.readAlong("README.md")
else:
    print("Why are you even doing this to your self?")

Trying to explain my own code

There is one function and one class that contains even more funtions. The first function does what it is named like. The center() functions should center the window in the middle of the screen. The class CustomRoot is pretty much the heart of the script and creates the CustomRoot. Well, okay, to this point you should have kept up with me. Now we will figure out together, because I don't actually remember at this point how the script works, how we can get something like a window out of this.

To do so we have my beautiful code and some comments. Okay, I just have realised that I have not written any usefull comments.

At first to start the script we open up a terminal and type

python3 CustomRoot.py

My terminal just spit out x1 and is now stuck in a loop. The script created a window named tk with two buttons named x++ and y++. When I press them nothing happens, I think I wanted them to interact with the shape that has been generated. Under the obscure window I found this shape out of ca. 900 pixels or how I called them in my code: 'winxels', what maybe means win(dow pi)xel.

It seems like we can just inject pseudocode into the root.shape() function in line 120 after we created the root by initialising the CustomRoot class. I will quickly test that by changing the argument that shape() takes.

# line: 120, CustomRoot.py
root.shape("x1-y2-x1-y1")

On execution it gave me this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "CustomRoot.py", line 120, in <module>
    root.shape("x1-y2-x1-y1")
TypeError: shape() missing 1 required positional argument: 'startpoint'

That means that the function shape takes two arguments. I will quickly repeat what I did but with the startpoint coordinates, (900,500) added.

Now everything worked flawlessly and I got 6 "Winxels". Okay, so now we know how to feed the program data, so it can build something.

Having a little bit fun

I will try to write the first letter of my username with it. T. To do so I have to change the psuedocode to that:

# line: 120, CustomRoot.py
root.shape("ym12-x6-xm12", (900,500))

What a suprise I got a "T" written with winxels and I found out that a m in psuedocode a minus is.

More

There are more functions but I am not very motivated right now to go trough all of them.

Have fun reading my crappy, but beautiful, code and thank you for reading this for this code way to long readme file.

License

This repository is licensed under the MIT License so you can do almost everything what you want with it.

See LICENSE.