How to set the images of a Switch in Kivy? - python

Hej
I like to customize the On/Off Switch in kivy. For a Button I know how to do it. The kv code looks like this:
Button:
background_normal: 'gfx/offButton.png'
background_down: 'gfx/onButton.png'
Now I whant to know it for the Switch widget. Any Ideas?

The switch does not have properties to control this. Maybe it should, but it also has more behaviour than just on/off since you can drag the slider.
If you just want an active/inactive choice, you could use a CheckBox (which does have background image properties).

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Kivy popup contents: What do you want ? Nobody can answer this !!! Give a precise question (here are some propositions for your next SO post).
I am trying to use kivy as the graphical system: How to use kivy app as a graphical system ?
and yet i dont know how to put inside a button and a label at the same time where label shows text and button closes popup
Kivy: how to add a widget (Label/Button) to an app ?
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Kivy: how to bind a function on a button click ?
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also there is one import ant thing here: .
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Is there was a way to specify in a kv file for Kivy NOT to render a widget at start-up?

I recently discovered that I can remove and add widgets in Kivy without having to create new ones by simply referring to their ids, for instance:
self.remove_widget(self.ids['my_button']) # Removes the widget
self.add_widget(self.ids['my_button']) # Adds the previously removed widget
This is perfect for my program, as I will often need to add and remove the same buttons.
However, Kivy will render everything that I write in the accompanying kv file, and I only would like certain buttons to appear at certain preset instances. I was wondering if there was a way to specify in a kv file for kivy NOT to render a widget at start-up, and instead wait for instructions to do so.
I think that the above approach is faster than constantly creating and destroying new buttons and more elegant than storing the buttons as an ObjectProperty.
Thanks in advance!
You can hide the Widget, if its parent is FloatLayout or RelativeLayout, by adding the following lines to its kv rule:
size_hint: 0, 0
pos: -1, -1
opacity: 0
The opacity set to zero makes it invisible, and the size_hint and pos keep it from responding to touch events. So the widget is actually rendered, but with zero opacity and zero size.
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Now you can remove the widget. If you want it to show you will need to adjust the opacity, size_hint, and pos.

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I've beeing coding applications for years using C# and Delphi. And one of the greatest things of those languages, in my opinion, was how easy it was to code the interface - you could grab the buttons, make the rectangles and etc, all using the mouse, dragging the squares.
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.kv file example:
<MyWidget>:
label_widget: label_widget
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text: 'Add Button'
on_press: root.add_widget(label_widget)
Button:
text: 'Remove Button'
on_press: root.remove_widget(label_widget)
Label:
id: label_widget
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There is however a Kivy Designer which you can use to design the UI but it is still at alpha stage and not perfect yet.
WARNING: This project is at an unstable alpha stage and is not yet
suitable for general use. Contributions are welcome.
Kivy Designer is Kivy's tool for designing graphical user interfaces
(GUIs) from Kivy Widgets. You can compose and customize widgets, and
test them. It is completely written in Python using Kivy.
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id:bubble
size_hint: (None, None)
size: (150, 50)
pos_hint: {'x': 1, 'y': 1.7}
arrow_pos: 'bottom_mid'
orientation: 'horizontal'
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text: "This is"
BubbleButton:
text: "a"
BubbleButton:
text: "Bubble"
Could anyone help?
Thanks.
You should follow the example shown here:
https://kivy.org/docs/api-kivy.uix.bubble.html
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KIVY is really ugly. I suggest porting to JAVA for mobile application development simply because it was born to do that.
We have a long way till everyone starts using python for mobile apps.

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