How to print a whole paragraph of text by referencing its subheading?-CodePudding

I am making a simple app that gives the user in depth information on a specific aircraft caution/warning when they press that specific button. I am pretty new and this is probably a very basic problem, but I simply don't know how to do it.

I'm not sure if the best way to organise the text data is to maybe put each caution/warning under its own string variable in a separate .py file, or maybe make a class with different modules for each caution/warning with the module just being string info. Maybe a dictionary? Maybe the best way is to have it as a text file???

For each of the caution/warnings there will be approximately 200 words describing the problem associated with it and a solution.

A very short example of what I mean is: If someone pressed on the "Battery" caution, the button calls for the get_text function in main.py and sends it the button's id. The get_text uses that id that was sent to it and then pulls the text from AOM.py or .txt or whatever. The information will then be displayed on the page and would be approximately 200 words about what the issue with the battery is and how to fix it. (I am purposely disregarding the need to change screens in my example here as I know how to do that). I'm just leaving as a print() for now.

I have a min reproducible example here if someone could please help me out? Thank you very much.

main.py

from kivy.app import App
from kivy.lang import Builder
from kivy.uix.screenmanager import Screen
import AOM

class CautionPanelScreen(Screen):
    pass
class TextScreen(Screen):
    pass

GUI = Builder.load_file("main.kv")
class MainApp(App):
    def build(self):
        return GUI

    def change_screen(self):
        # get the screen manager from the main.kv file
        screen_manager = self.root.ids['screen_manager']
        screen_manager.current = 'text_screen'

    def get_text(self, caution):
        print(AOM.caution)             # this is where i am stuck, I dont know how to ref the data...

MainApp().run()

main.kv

#:include caution_panel_screen.kv
#:include text_screen.kv
GridLayout:
    cols: 1
    FloatLayout:
        GridLayout:
            canvas:
                Color:
                    rgb: utils.get_color_from_hex("#EEEEEE")
                Rectangle:
                    size: self.size
                    pos: self.pos
        ScreenManager:
            id: screen_manager
            CautionPanelScreen:
                name: "caution_panel_screen"
                id: caution_panel_screen

caution_panel_screen.kv

#:import utils kivy.utils
<CautionPanelScreen>:
    FloatLayout:
        flt_data_recorder: flt_data_recorder.__self__
        canvas:
            Color:
                rgb: utils.get_color_from_hex("#000000")
            Rectangle:
                size: self.size
                pos: self.pos
        GridLayout:
            rows: 1
            id: row_1
            pos_hint: {"top": .9, "left": 1}
            size_hint: 1, .1
            spacing: 5, 5
            Button:
                pos_hint: {"top": 1, "left": 1}
                markup: True
                opacity: 1 if self.state == 'normal' else .5
                font_size: '12sp'
                id: pri_inv
                halign: 'center'
                text: "[color=#FFF300]PRI INV[/color]"
                on_release:
                    app.get_text(pri_inv)
            Button:
                pos_hint: {"top": 1, "left": 1}
                markup: True
                opacity: 1 if self.state == 'normal' else .5
                font_size: '12sp'
                id: l_ac_bus
                halign: 'center'
                text: "[color=#FFF300]L AC BUS[/color]"
                on_release:
                    app.get_text(l_ac_bus)
            Button:
                pos_hint: {"top": 1, "left": 1}
                markup: True
                opacity: 1 if self.state == 'normal' else .5
                font_size: '12sp'
                id: emer_lts_disarmed
                halign: 'center'
                text: "[color=#FFF300]EMER LTS\nDISARMED[/color]"
                on_release:
                    app.get_text(emer_lts_disarmed)

AOM.py

#THIS IS JUST THE DATA PAGE AND CAN BE LAID OUT IN ANY WAY, dictionary, variables, txt, module, functions...
pri_inv = "all the things assosicated with primary inverter"
left_ac_bus = "all the stuff needed for info on left ac buses"
emer_lts_disarmed = "evertyhing on emergency  lights"

EDIT: Will I have to store the text on my main.py? Or can I have it separate, like maybe in a word doc?

CodePudding user response：

I would keep it as dictionary

AOM.py

data = {
    'pri_inv': "all the things assosicated with primary inverter",
    'left_ac_bus': "all the stuff needed for info on left ac buses",
    'emer_lts_disarmed': "evertyhing on emergency  lights",
}

And Button should use string in get_text() in on_release

     on_release:
         app.get_text("pri_inv")


     on_release:
         root.get_text("left_ac_bus")


     on_release:
         app.get_text("emer_lts_disarmed")

and then code should use this string to get text from AOM.data

    def get_text(self, caution):
        print(AOM.data[caution])

Maybe later I would use AOM.data to generate Button so I would keep button's text also in AOM.data

data = {
    'pri_inv': ["PRI INV", "all the things assosicated with primary inverter"],
    'left_ac_bus': ["L AC BUS", "all the stuff needed for info on left ac buses"],
    'emer_lts_disarmed': ["EMER LTS\nDISARMED", "evertyhing on emergency  lights"],
}

and then it would need to use index [1] to get text

    def get_text(self, caution):
        print(AOM.data[caution][1])

Or it could keep in nested dictionares

data = {
    'pri_inv': {
         "button_text": "PRI INV", 
         "text": "all the things assosicated with primary inverter",
    },
    'left_ac_bus': {
         "button_text": "L AC BUS", 
         "text": "all the stuff needed for info on left ac buses",
    },
    'emer_lts_disarmed': {
         "button_text": "EMER LTS\nDISARMED", 
         "text": "evertyhing on emergency  lights",
    },
}

and then it would need to use ["text"] to get text

    def get_text(self, caution):
        print(AOM.data[caution]["text"])

if buttons would have other unique values then I would also keep them in dictionary.