envisage.ui.workbench.workbench_application module

The entry point for an Envisage Workbench application.

class envisage.ui.workbench.workbench_application.WorkbenchApplication(plugins=None, **traits)[source]

Bases: Application

The entry point for an Envisage Workbench application.

i.e. a GUI application whose user interface is provided by the workbench plugin.

This class handles the common case for Workbench applications, and it is intended to be subclassed to change start/stop behaviour etc. In fact, I generally create a subclass for every Workbench application I write since it is a good place to put branding information etc.

about()[source]

Display the about dialog.

create_workbench()[source]

Create the workbench.

exit()[source]

Exit the application.

This closes all open windows and hence exits the GUI event loop.

run()[source]

Run the application.

This does the following (so you don’t have to ;^):-

  1. Starts the application

  2. Creates and opens a workbench window

  3. Starts the GUI event loop

  4. When the event loop terminates, stops the application