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Kivy Inherit ScreenManager from FloatLayout

I am having trouble understanding how to inherit the functionality of one class into another with Kivy. I understand the error message ('LoadDialog_Directory' object has no attribute 'manager'), but I'm just not grasping exactly how to fix it. I believe I need to do something with the function below, but ultimately, I do not know.
def __init__(self, **kwargs):
super().__init__(**kwargs)
The goal of this script is to be able to select a specific driver as the path for the filechooser. I choose this method vs. others because most were using Kivy 1.11.1, this version has a lot of deprecated functions that do not work with 2.0.
.py
from kivy.app import App
from kivy.uix.screenmanager import ScreenManager, Screen
from kivy.lang.builder import Builder
from kivy.uix.spinner import SpinnerOption
from kivy.uix.popup import Popup
from kivy.uix.button import Button
from kivy.uix.boxlayout import BoxLayout
from kivy.uix.floatlayout import FloatLayout
from kivy.properties import ObjectProperty
from kivy.utils import platform
from kivy.properties import StringProperty
import os
import string
class WindowManager(ScreenManager):
pass
class MyOption(SpinnerOption):
pass
class LoadDialog_Directory(FloatLayout):
load = ObjectProperty(None)
cancel = ObjectProperty(None)
def dir_driver(self):
x = self.manager.get_screen("first")
return str(x.ids.drive_dir.text)
class FirstWindow(Screen):
def get_drives(self):
drives = ['%s:' % d for d in string.ascii_uppercase if os.path.exists('%s:' % d)]
return drives
def dismiss_popup(self):
self._popup.dismiss()
def show_load_directory(self):
content = LoadDialog_Directory(load=self.directroy_path, cancel=self.dismiss_popup)
self._popup = Popup(title="Load file", content=content, size_hint=(0.9, 0.9))
self._popup.open()
def directroy_path(self, path, filename):
self.ids.text_input_directory.text = str(filename[0])
self.dismiss_popup()
kv_main = Builder.load_file('main.kv')
#
class MyApp(App):
def build(self):
return kv_main
if __name__ == '__main__':
MyApp().run()
main.kv
#:include first.kv
WindowManager:
FirstWindow:
<LoadDialog_Directory>:
BoxLayout:
size: root.size
pos: root.pos
orientation: "vertical"
FileChooserListView:
id: filechooser
dirselect: True
path: root.dir_driver()
BoxLayout:
size_hint_y: None
height: 30
Button:
text: "Cancel"
on_release: root.cancel()
Button:
text: "Load"
on_release: root.load(filechooser.path, filechooser.selection)
first.kv
<FirstWindow>
name: 'first'
GridLayout:
cols: 1
BoxLayout:
orientation: "horizontal"
TextInput:
BoxLayout:
orientation: "horizontal"
Spinner:
id: drive_dir
text: "Root Drive"
halign: 'center'
option_cls: "MyOption"
values: root.get_drives()
Button:
text: "Set Result Directory"
on_release: root.show_load_directory()
TextInput:
id: text_input_directory
disabled: True
text: text_input_directory.text
BoxLayout:
size_hint: (0.01, 1)
orientation: "horizontal"
TextInput:
Side Note: The reason for the extra blank TextInput is because the Spinner will not function (show drivers) if it is taking too much of the App.

After a few hours of trail and error I finally got it to work, but I have no idea why it works. Here is what changed:
New variable in class LoadDialog_Directory(FloatLayout) - input_pth
Called input_pth into my content variable within class FirstWindow(Screen) function show_load_directory(self)
Set my filechooser.path to root.input_pth in the main.kv file.
I do not understand how the input_pth variable within content is able to reference the class LoadDialog_Directory(FloatLayout) without having to pass something like:
def __init__(self, input_pth, **kwargs):
super(LoadDialog_Directory, self).__init__()
self.input_pth = input_pth
.py
from kivy.app import App
from kivy.uix.screenmanager import ScreenManager, Screen
from kivy.lang.builder import Builder
from kivy.uix.spinner import SpinnerOption
from kivy.uix.popup import Popup
from kivy.uix.button import Button
from kivy.uix.boxlayout import BoxLayout
from kivy.uix.floatlayout import FloatLayout
from kivy.properties import ObjectProperty
from kivy.utils import platform
from kivy.properties import StringProperty
import os
import string
class WindowManager(ScreenManager):
pass
class MyOption(SpinnerOption):
pass
class LoadDialog_Directory(FloatLayout):
input_pth = StringProperty()
load = ObjectProperty()
cancel = ObjectProperty()
class FirstWindow(Screen):
def drive_list(self):
drives = ['%s:' % d for d in string.ascii_uppercase if os.path.exists('%s:' % d)]
return drives
def dismiss_popup(self):
self._popup.dismiss()
def show_load_directory(self):
content = LoadDialog_Directory(load=self.directroy_path, cancel=self.dismiss_popup, input_pth=self.ids.drive_dir.text)
self._popup = Popup(title="Load file", content=content, size_hint=(0.9, 0.9))
self._popup.open()
def directroy_path(self, path, filename):
self.ids.text_input_directory.text = str(filename[0])
self.dismiss_popup()
kv_main = Builder.load_file('main.kv')
#
class MyApp(App):
def build(self):
return kv_main
if __name__ == '__main__':
MyApp().run()
main.kv
#:include first.kv
WindowManager:
FirstWindow:
<LoadDialog_Directory>:
BoxLayout:
size: root.size
pos: root.pos
orientation: "vertical"
FileChooserListView:
id: filechooser
dirselect: True
path: root.input_pth
BoxLayout:
size_hint_y: None
height: 30
Button:
text: "Cancel"
on_release: root.cancel()
Button:
text: "Load"
on_release: root.load(filechooser.path, filechooser.selection)
first.kv
<FirstWindow>
name: 'first'
GridLayout:
cols: 1
BoxLayout:
orientation: "horizontal"
TextInput:
BoxLayout:
orientation: "horizontal"
Spinner:
id: drive_dir
halign: 'center'
option_cls: "MyOption"
values: root.drive_list()
Button:
text: "Set Result Directory"
on_release: root.show_load_directory()
TextInput:
id: text_input_directory
disabled: True
text: text_input_directory.text
BoxLayout:
size_hint: (0.01, 1)
orientation: "horizontal"
TextInput:

Kivy Python: buttons and classes for multiple screens

I have a problem with my Kivy Python Code. I have 2 screens: 1st is to navigate to the second screen and on the 2nd screen there is a button to add text to a scrollview...navigating is working but it does not add any text to the scrollview...I think I need some help here! AttributeError: 'super' object has no attribute 'getattr'
import kivy
from kivy.app import App
from kivy.uix.label import Label
from kivy.uix.gridlayout import GridLayout
from kivy.uix.textinput import TextInput
from kivy.uix.button import Button
from kivy.uix.screenmanager import ScreenManager, Screen
from kivy.clock import Clock, mainthread
from kivy.core.window import Window
from kivy.uix.scrollview import ScrollView
from kivy.effects.scroll import ScrollEffect
from kivy.lang import Builder
Builder.load_string("""
<MenuScreen>:
name: 'mainmenu'
BoxLayout:
spacing: 1
orientation: "vertical"
Label:
text: "MAIN MENU"
Button:
text: 'Go to Screen 2'
on_release:
root.manager.current = 'screen2'
root.manager.transition.direction = "left"
Button:
text: 'Quit'
on_release: root.manager.current = app.exit_software()
<Screen2>:
name: 'screen2'
BoxLayout:
spacing: 1
orientation: "vertical"
ScrollView:
id: scroll_view
always_overscroll: False
BoxLayout:
size_hint_y: None
height: self.minimum_height
orientation: 'vertical'
Label:
id: label
text: "You can add some Text here by pressing the button"
size_hint: None, None
size: self.texture_size
Button:
text: 'Add text!'
size_hint_y: 0.1
on_release: app.add_text()
Button:
text: 'Back to main menu'
size_hint_y: 0.1
on_release:
root.manager.current = 'mainmenu'
root.manager.transition.direction = "right"
""")
# Declare both screens
class MenuScreen(Screen):
pass
class Screen2(Screen):
pass
class AddTextApp(App):
def __init__(self,**kwargs):
super().__init__(**kwargs)
def build(self):
# Create the screen manager
sm = ScreenManager()
sm.add_widget(MenuScreen(name='mainmenu'))
sm.add_widget(Screen2(name='screen2'))
return sm
def add_text(self):
self.root.ids.label.text += f"Some new Text\n"
self.root.ids.scroll_view.scroll_y = 0
def exit_software(self):
App.get_running_app().stop()
if __name__ == '__main__':
AddTextApp().run()
Thank you very much in advance!

The error occurred because self.root.ids gets access to widgets located in the root widget of the main class. To access the secondary screen elements, you need to add it to the main class (in your case, in ScreenManager) and set its id. Also, you have a lot of imported excess, so that it is clearly visible, I advise you to use Pycharm or something like that.
from kivy.app import App
from kivy.uix.screenmanager import Screen
from kivy.lang import Builder
kv = """
<MenuScreen>:
name: 'mainmenu'
BoxLayout:
spacing: 1
orientation: "vertical"
Label:
text: "MAIN MENU"
Button:
text: 'Go to Screen 2'
on_release:
root.manager.current = 'screen2'
root.manager.transition.direction = "left"
Button:
text: 'Quit'
on_release: root.manager.current = app.exit_software()
<Screen2>:
name: 'screen2'
BoxLayout:
spacing: 1
orientation: "vertical"
ScrollView:
id: scroll_view
always_overscroll: False
BoxLayout:
size_hint_y: None
height: self.minimum_height
orientation: 'vertical'
Label:
id: label
text: "You can add some Text here by pressing the button"
size_hint: None, None
size: self.texture_size
Button:
text: 'Add text!'
size_hint_y: 0.1
on_release: app.add_text()
Button:
text: 'Back to main menu'
size_hint_y: 0.1
on_release:
root.manager.current = 'mainmenu'
root.manager.transition.direction = "right"
ScreenManager:
MenuScreen:
id: menu_scr
Screen2:
id: scr_2
"""
class MenuScreen(Screen):
pass
class Screen2(Screen):
pass
class AddTextApp(App):
def __init__(self, **kwargs):
super().__init__(**kwargs)
def build(self):
return Builder.load_string(kv)
def add_text(self):
self.root.ids.scr_2.ids.label.text += f"Some new Text\n"
self.root.ids.scr_2.ids.scroll_view.scroll_y = 0
#staticmethod
def exit_software():
App.get_running_app().stop()
if __name__ == '__main__':
AddTextApp().run()

How to switch screens from a dynamically created button in kivy recycleview

Problem
I have a screen (OrderScreen) that populates with buttons if there is data to be processed. I would like the user to click one of the buttons to be brought to another screen (MenuScreen) to process the data. While my intention is to populate the next screen with data from the button, I am currently just trying to get the ScreenManager to change to the next screen after a button press. I added a pass_data() method to the OrderButton and tried to trigger the screen manager there but self.manager.current and root.manager.current were throwing exceptions. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
recycleview_test.py
from kivy.app import App
from kivy.uix.button import Button
from kivy.uix.floatlayout import FloatLayout
from kivy.uix.label import Label
from kivy.uix.recycleview import RecycleView
from kivy.uix.screenmanager import ScreenManager, Screen
from random import randint
class MenuScreen(Screen):
def quit(self):
App.get_running_app.stop()
Window.close()
class OrderScreen(Screen):
pass
class OrderButton(Button):
def __init__(self, **kwargs):
super(OrderButton, self).__init__(**kwargs)
def pass_data(self):
print("button pushed")
class OrderScroll(RecycleView):
def __init__(self, **kwargs):
super(OrderScroll, self).__init__(**kwargs)
self.data = [{'text': str(f"Make {randint(10, 25)} items from package #{randint(1,4)}")} for x in range(12)]
class WindowManager(ScreenManager):
pass
class RecycleApp(App):
def build(self):
return WindowManager()
if __name__ == "__main__":
RecycleApp().run()
recycle.kv
#:import Factory kivy.factory.Factory
#: import ScreenManager kivy.uix.screenmanager.ScreenManager
#: import Screen kivy.uix.screenmanager.ScreenManager
#:import App kivy.app.App
<OrderScroll>:
viewclass: 'OrderButton'
manager: None
RecycleBoxLayout:
default_size: None, dp(56)
default_size_hint: 1, None
size_hint_y: None
height: self.minimum_height
orientation: 'vertical'
padding: 20
spacing: 10
<OrderButton>:
manager: None
font_size: 32
bold: True
on_release:
root.pass_data()
<WindowManager>:
id: screen_manager
OrderScreen:
id: order_screen
name: "OrderScreen"
manager: screen_manager
MenuScreen:
id: menu_screen
name: 'MenuScreen'
manager: screen_manager
<OrderScreen>:
BoxLayout:
orientation: "vertical"
Label:
text: "Data Buttons"
font_size: 64
size_hint_y: None
# pos_hint: {"x":0, "y":1}
height: 200
OrderScroll:
<MenuScreen>:
BoxLayout:
orientation: "vertical"
Label:
text: "Made it"
font_size: 64
FloatLayout:
Button:
text: 'Keep going'
font_size: 48
size_hint: .8,.5
pos_hint: {"center_x": .5, "center_y": .1}
FloatLayout:
Button:
text: 'Quit'
size_hint: .15,.3
pos_hint: {"center_x": .5, "center_y": .5}
on_release:
root.quit()

Try to create an object of screen manager:
class RecycleApp(App):
def build(self):
self.sm = WindowManager()
return self.sm
And then access it by:
App.get_running_app().sm.current = 'MenuScreen' # in Python
app.sm.current = 'MenuScreen' # in kv

Switching between kivy classes inside one screen

I'm looking for a way to change a part of a screen between 'DownPanel1' and 'DownPanel1' but I would like to avoide creating nex screen class 'ToAvoid'. Is it possible?
from kivy.config import Config
Config.set('graphics', 'multisamples', '0')
from kivy.app import App
from kivy.lang import Builder
from kivy.uix.screenmanager import ScreenManager, Screen
from kivy.uix.boxlayout import BoxLayout
kv = '''
#:import FadeTransition kivy.uix.screenmanager.FadeTransition
ScreenManagement:
transition: FadeTransition()
SomeScreen:
ToAvoid:
<Menu#RelativeLayout>
id: main_menu
size_hint_x: None
width: 120
Button:
size_hint_y: None
pos: root.x, root.top - self.height
text: 'SomeScreen'
on_press: app.root.current = "SomeScreen"
<UpScreen>:
BoxLayout:
Button:
text: 'switch'
on_press: app.root.current = "ToAvoid"
<DownPanel1>:
Button:
text: 'DownPanel1'
#on_press:
<DownPanel2>:
Button:
text: 'DownPanel2'
#on_press:
<SomeScreen>:
name: 'SomeScreen'
BoxLayout:
orientation: 'horizontal'
Menu:
BoxLayout:
orientation: 'vertical'
UpScreen:
DownPanel1:
<ToAvoid>:
name: 'ToAvoid'
BoxLayout:
orientation: 'horizontal'
Menu:
BoxLayout:
orientation: 'vertical'
UpScreen:
DownPanel2:
'''
class DownPanel1(BoxLayout):
pass
class DownPanel2(BoxLayout):
pass
class UpScreen(Screen):
pass
class SomeScreen(Screen):
pass
class ToAvoid(Screen):
pass
class ScreenManagement(ScreenManager):
pass
sm = Builder.load_string(kv)
class TestApp(App):
def build(self):
return sm
if __name__ == '__main__':
TestApp().run()

How about some inception? Just put another ScreenManager inside of the other.
Try this example:
from kivy.app import App
from kivy.lang import Builder
KV = """
ScreenManager:
Screen:
name: "1st"
Button:
text: "next"
on_release:
root.current = "2nd"
Screen:
name: "2nd"
BoxLayout:
Button:
text: "3rd to avoid"
on_release:
root.current = "3rd"
ScreenManager:
id: sm2
Screen:
name: "inner1"
Button:
text: "go to inner 2"
on_release:
sm2.current = "inner2"
Screen:
name: "inner2"
Label:
text: "This is inner 2!"
Screen:
name: "3rd"
Label:
text: "To Avoid!"
"""
class MyApp(App):
def build(self):
return Builder.load_string(KV)
if __name__ == "__main__":
MyApp().run()

Mimic Tkinter file open in Kivy

I have worked mostly with Tkinter before and I used the following code to store path of file I selected. After exploring Kivy, it doesn't seem like Kivy have a simple function like this. So I tried using the filechoser instead
path = filedialog.askopenfilename(initialdir="/", title="Select file")
Main code is very simple
class checker_ui(GridLayout):
def findreport(self,path):
pass
class Checker(App):
def build(self):
return checker_ui()
if __name__ == '__main__':
Checker().run()
Then I created a .kv file just to see what filechooser looks like. The script would just open and freeze.
<checker_ui>:
BoxLayout:
FileChooserIconLayout:
id:filechooser
on_selection:root.select(*args)
Here is the output
I search all over the place and did not see anyone with a similar issue. Is there an alternative I can try to mimic the tkinter behaviour or am I stuck with this issue? I'm on a Windows machine and normal kivy widget works, ie: button,label etc.

so I wrote a lot more code than you (based heavily on the kivy example # https://kivy.org/docs/api-kivy.uix.filechooser.html#usage-example)
from kivy.app import App
from kivy.uix.floatlayout import FloatLayout
from kivy.factory import Factory
from kivy.properties import ObjectProperty
from kivy.uix.popup import Popup
from kivy.lang import Builder
Builder.load_string("""
#:kivy 1.1.0
<Root>:
text_input: text_input
BoxLayout:
orientation: 'vertical'
BoxLayout:
size_hint_y: None
height: 30
Button:
text: 'Load'
on_release: root.show_load()
Button:
text: 'Save'
on_release: root.show_save()
BoxLayout:
TextInput:
id: text_input
text: ''
RstDocument:
text: text_input.text
show_errors: True
<LoadDialog>:
BoxLayout:
size: root.size
pos: root.pos
orientation: "vertical"
FileChooserListView:
id: filechooser
BoxLayout:
size_hint_y: None
height: 30
Button:
text: "Cancel"
on_release: root.cancel()
Button:
text: "Load"
on_release: root.load(filechooser.path, filechooser.selection)
<SaveDialog>:
text_input: text_input
BoxLayout:
size: root.size
pos: root.pos
orientation: "vertical"
FileChooserListView:
id: filechooser
on_selection: text_input.text = self.selection and self.selection[0] or ''
TextInput:
id: text_input
size_hint_y: None
height: 30
multiline: False
BoxLayout:
size_hint_y: None
height: 30
Button:
text: "Cancel"
on_release: root.cancel()
Button:
text: "Save"
on_release: root.save(filechooser.path, text_input.text)""")
import os
class LoadDialog(FloatLayout):
load = ObjectProperty(None)
cancel = ObjectProperty(None)
class SaveDialog(FloatLayout):
save = ObjectProperty(None)
text_input = ObjectProperty(None)
cancel = ObjectProperty(None)
class Root(FloatLayout):
loadfile = ObjectProperty(None)
savefile = ObjectProperty(None)
text_input = ObjectProperty(None)
def dismiss_popup(self):
self._popup.dismiss()
def show_load(self):
content = LoadDialog(load=self.load, cancel=self.dismiss_popup)
self._popup = Popup(title="Load file", content=content,
size_hint=(0.9, 0.9))
self._popup.open()
def show_save(self):
content = SaveDialog(save=self.save, cancel=self.dismiss_popup)
self._popup = Popup(title="Save file", content=content,
size_hint=(0.9, 0.9))
self._popup.open()
def load(self, path, filename):
with open(os.path.join(path, filename[0])) as stream:
self.text_input.text = stream.read()
self.dismiss_popup()
def save(self, path, filename):
with open(os.path.join(path, filename), 'w') as stream:
stream.write(self.text_input.text)
self.dismiss_popup()
class Editor(App):
def build(self):
return Root()
if __name__ == '__main__':
Editor().run()

Solution
Replace FileChooserIconLayout with FileChooserIconView
Add a BoxLayout and make FileChooserIconView a children of the BoxLayout
Example
main.py
from kivy.app import App
from kivy.uix.gridlayout import GridLayout
class Checker_ui(GridLayout):
def findreport(self, path):
print("path=", path)
class Checker(App):
def build(self):
return Checker_ui()
if __name__ == "__main__":
Checker().run()
checker.kv
#:kivy 1.10.0
<Checker_ui>:
BoxLayout:
size: root.size
pos: root.pos
orientation: "vertical"
FileChooserIconView:
id: filechooser
on_selection: root.select(*args)
Output

Hey if anyone wants to open all types of file just use(mp4,jpg,pdf,txt,docs...etc)
import webbrowser
webbrowser.open(filename[0])