The Rapicorn Toolkit
DESCRIPTION
Rapicorn is a graphical user interface (UI) toolkit for rapid development of user interfaces in C++ and Python. The user interface (UI) is designed in declarative markup language and is connected to the programming logic using data bindings and commands.
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For a full description, visit the project website: https://rapicorn.testbit.org/
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To submit bug reports and feature requests, visit: https://github.com/tim-janik/rapicorn/issues
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Rapicorn is currently in the "prototype" phase. Features are still under heavy development. Details are provided in the roadmap: https://rapicorn.testbit.org/wiki/Rapicorn_Task_List
REQUIREMENTS
Rapicorn has been successfully build on Ubuntu x86-32 and x86-64. A number of dependency packages need to be installed:
apt-get install intltool librsvg2-dev libpango1.0-dev libxml2-dev \
libreadline6-dev python2.7-dev python-enum34 \
xvfb cython doxygen graphviz texlive-binaries pandoc
INSTALLATION
In short, Rapicorn needs to be built and installed with:
./configure
make -j`nproc`
make -j`nproc` check # run simple unit tests
make install
make -j`nproc` installcheck # run module tests
Note that Rapicorn has to be fully installed to function properly. For non-standard prefixes, Python module imports need proper search path setups. The following commands shows two examples:
make python-call-info -C cython/
SUPPORT
If you have any issues, please let us know in the issue tracker or the mailing list / web forum:
https://groups.google.com/d/forum/rapicorn
rapicorn@googlegroups.com
The developers can often be found chatting on IRC:
#beast IRC channel on GimpNet: irc.gimp.org
The distribution tarball includes Python and C++ tests and examples:
examples/ tests/
Documentation is provided online and locally (if installed in /usr):
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file:///usr/share/doc/rapicorn/html/index.html
CONTINUOUS INTEGRATION
New source code pushed to the Rapicorn repository is automatically built and tested through a travis-ci script. Here is the build history overview: