Dynamic Variables

Change variables during runtime using simple GUI.

Installation

pip3 install dynamic_variables

Usage

Here is a minimalist example

import dynamic_variables as dv
import time

dv.add_slider('var_name', 0, 10)
dv.init_gui()

while True:
    print(var_name)
    time.sleep(0.1)

When this program run, a slider appears and vt.var_name changes according to this slider.

Breakdown

dv.add_slider creates a slider inside the gui and a float variable named var_name. This variable is connected with the slider and changes with the slider, and can be used throughout the code. Slider is one of 6 widgets. All widgets and their usage covered in widgets section.

dv.init_gui() Initializes the GUI.

Widgets

There are 6 widgets that you can add to GUI. They allow manipulating different types of variables.

(dark theme with dark-blue color)

Slider

Slider widget allows you to change int or float variables easily.

add_slider(variable_name, min_value, max_value[, value[, step]])

Example:

dv.add_slider('slider', 0, 10, value=5, step=1)

If all values are int, the variable will be an int. Otherwise, it will be a float.

Text

Text widget allows you to change str variables.

add_text(variable_name[, value])

Example:

dv.add_text('text', value='this is a text')

Dropdown

Dropdown widget allows you to change your variable to any predetermined value.

add_dropdown(variable_name, list_or_tuple_of_options[, chosen_index])

Example:

dv.add_text('dropdown', ['option 1', 'option 2', 3, 4.5], chosen_index=0)

Boolean

Boolean widget allows you to change your bool variable

add_boolean(variable_name[, value])

Example:

dv.add_boolean('boolean', value=True)

Color

Color widget allows you to pick colors easily. When clicked on the color, a color picker shows up for you to choose a color.

add_color(variable_name[, value])

initial_value must be a tuple (r, g, b) or a colorcode #xxxxxx. Example:

dv.add_color('color', value=(12, 63, 85))
dv.add_color('color2', value='#0c3f55')
...

When accessing the color variable, r, g, b, color_code and tuple parts are available.

print(color.r, color.g, color.b, color.color_code, color.tuple)

Button

Button widget allows you to invoke functions manually.

add_button(button_name, function_to_invoke)

Example:

def print_hello():
    print('Hello!')

dv.add_button('Print Hello', print_hello)

Init GUI

To initialize the GUI, call dv.init_gui(). You can feed in some optional arguments in here:

• window_title: Title of the window. Default is Variable Tweaker.
• font_size: Font size of the labels. Default is 16.
• widget_font_size: Font size of the widgets. Default is font_size*0.75.
• default_width: Initial width of the window in pixels (window is resizable). Default is 500.
• theme: Theme of the GUI. Options are light, dark and native. Default is dark.
• color: Color of the theme. Not used when theme is native. Options are blue, dark-blue, green, sweetkind. Default is dark-blue

dv.init_gui(window_title='VT', font_size=20, widget_font_size=16, default_width=1000, theme='dark', color='sweetkind')

(light theme with green color)

(native theme)

Saved Variables

Dynamic Variables saves all the variables inside system config file. After closing and reopening the app, your variables are restored (unless you specify with value=...). This process is unique to every file (same variable in different files considered different).

Init GUI arguments are also saved. If you use light theme once, the next theme (unless you specify) will be light.

Example Application

import cv2 as cv
import dynamic_variables as dv

def save_image():
    print('image saved')

# Set up dynamic variables
dv.add_boolean('colored')
dv.add_text('text')
dv.add_slider('x', 0, 100)
dv.add_slider('y', 0, 100)
dv.add_color('color')
dv.add_dropdown('threshold_type', ['None', 'Normal', 'Adaptive Gaussian', 'Adaptive Mean'])
dv.add_slider('thresh', 0, 255)
dv.add_slider('block_size', 3, 201, step=2)
dv.add_slider('C', -100, 100)
dv.add_button('Save Image', save_image)
dv.init_gui()

# import image
image = cv.imread('image.png')

while cv.waitKey(20) != ord('q'):

    copy = image.copy()

    # colored
    if not colored:
        copy = cv.cvtColor(copy, cv.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)

    # Apply Threshold
    if threshold_type == 'Normal':
        _, copy = cv.threshold(copy, thresh, 255, cv.THRESH_BINARY)
    elif threshold_type == 'Adaptive Gaussian':
        copy = cv.adaptiveThreshold(copy, 255, cv.ADAPTIVE_THRESH_GAUSSIAN_C, cv.THRESH_BINARY, block_size, C)
    elif threshold_type == 'Adaptive Mean':
        copy = cv.adaptiveThreshold(copy, 255, cv.ADAPTIVE_THRESH_MEAN_C, cv.THRESH_BINARY, block_size, C)
    if not colored:
        copy = cv.cvtColor(copy, cv.COLOR_GRAY2BGR)

    # Put text
    copy = cv.putText(copy, text, (x, y), cv.FONT_HERSHEY_SIMPLEX, 3, (color.b, color.g, color.r), 3)

    # Show image
    cv.imshow('Image', copy)

dynamic_variables2.mp4