low-level drawing and interaction
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http://docs.enthought.com/enable
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The Enable project provides two related multi-platform packages for drawing GUI objects.
The Enable package is a multi-platform object drawing library built on top of Kiva. The core of Enable is a container/component model for drawing and event notification. The core concepts of Enable are:
Enable provides a high-level interface for creating GUI objects, while enabling a high level of control over user interaction. Enable is a supporting technology for the Chaco and BlockCanvas projects.
Kiva is a multi-platform DisplayPDF vector drawing engine that supports multiple output backends, including Windows, GTK, and Macintosh native windowing systems, a variety of raster image formats, PDF, and Postscript.
DisplayPDF is more of a convention than an actual specification. It is a path-based drawing API based on a subset of the Adobe PDF specification. Besides basic vector drawing concepts such as paths, rects, line sytles, and the graphics state stack, it also supports pattern fills, antialiasing, and transparency. Perhaps the most popular implementation of DisplayPDF is Apple's Quartz 2-D graphics API in Mac OS X.
Kiva Features ````````````` Kiva currently implements the following features:
You must have the following libraries installed before building the Enable/Kiva project:
Setuptools <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools>
_Numpy <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/numpy>
_SWIG <http://www.swig.org/>
_fonttools <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/FontTools>
_Cython <http://www.cython.org>
_Enable/Kiva also have the following requirements:
.. rubric:: Runtime:
Numpy <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/numpy>
_PIL <http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil>
_ or preferably pillow <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Pillow/2.8.1>
_traits 4.5.0 <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/traits>
_traitsui 4.4.0 <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/traitsui>
_pyface 4.5.0 <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyface>
_six 1.9.0 <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/six>
_.. rubric:: Optional:
apptools 4.3.0 <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/apptools/>
_PySide <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/PySide>
_ or PyQt4 <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/PyQt4>
_WxPython version 2.8.11.0 <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/wxPython/2.8.11.0>
_pyglet version 1.1.4 <https://bitbucket.org/pyglet/pyglet/get/pyglet-1.1.4.zip>
_pygarrayimage <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pygarrayimage>
_PyParsing <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyparsing>
_ReportLab Toolkit version 3.1 <http://www.reportlab.org/rl_toolkit.html/>
_PyCairo 1.10.0 <http://cairographics.org/releases/py2cairo-1.10.0.tar.bz2>
_kiwisolver <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/kiwisolver>
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