From ae6fe2896c92a41fa764123ebcf5296c17cdcaab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: BodgeMaster <>
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2022 11:42:31 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] use util.Communication instead of
 gui_helper.Window_Interaction_Handler

Communication and Window_Interaction_Handler are the same class but I renamed things to be more generic and moved it to util.
---
 config.py | 11 ++++++-----
 util.py   | 11 ++++++++---
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/config.py b/config.py
index 0bd5c37..590c16a 100644
--- a/config.py
+++ b/config.py
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 import os, sys, json
+#TODO: port to QT once that little mainloop issue has been resolved...
 import tkinter as tk
 from tkinter import ttk
-import gui_helper, util
+import util
 
 class Config:
     def __init__(self, file_path, default_config):
@@ -18,19 +19,19 @@ class Config:
                 util.error("An exception occurred while trying to load the configuration.", handle_gracefully=False)
         else:
             # config not found
-            dialog_interaction_handler = gui_helper.Window_Interaction_Handler()
+            dialog_communication = util.Communication()
 
             dialog = tk.Tk()
             dialog.title("No configuration found")
             ttk.Label(dialog, text="No configuration found!").pack()
             buttons_frame = tk.Frame(dialog)
             buttons_frame.pack()
-            ttk.Button(buttons_frame, text="Create", command=lambda: dialog_interaction_handler.interact("create", True, additional_action=dialog.destroy)).grid(column=0, row=0)
-            ttk.Button(buttons_frame, text="Quit", command=lambda: dialog_interaction_handler.interact("create", False, additional_action=dialog.destroy)).grid(column=1, row=0)
+            ttk.Button(buttons_frame, text="Create", command=lambda: dialog_communication.send("create", True, additional_action=dialog.destroy)).grid(column=0, row=0)
+            ttk.Button(buttons_frame, text="Quit", command=lambda: dialog_communication.send("create", False, additional_action=dialog.destroy)).grid(column=1, row=0)
             dialog.resizable(0,0)
             dialog.mainloop()
 
-            if dialog_interaction_handler.get_result("create"):
+            if dialog_communication.get("create"):
                 self.__current_config = default_config
                 try:
                     config_file = open(self.__file_path, "w")
diff --git a/util.py b/util.py
index dad201f..1b80b05 100644
--- a/util.py
+++ b/util.py
@@ -27,12 +27,13 @@ def error(message, is_exception=True, handle_gracefully=True):
         sys.exit(EXIT_ERROR)
 
 # easy way to communicate across events
+#TODO: make thread safe
 class Communication:
     def __init__(self):
         self.__messages = {}
 
-    # send a message tagged with name and containing content, adds to the beginning of the list of messages with the same tag by default
-    def send(self, name, content, reverse_order=True):
+    # send a message tagged with name and containing content, adds to the beginning of the list of messages with the same tag by default, a function to run as an additional action can be provided
+    def send(self, name, content, reverse_order=True, additional_action=None):
         if name in self.__messages:
             if reverse_order:
                 self.__messages[name] = [content] + self.__messages[name]
@@ -40,6 +41,10 @@ class Communication:
                 self.__messages[name] = self.__messages[name] + [content]
         else:
             self.__messages[name] = [content]
+        if additional_action == None:
+            pass
+        else:
+            additional_action()
 
     # get the content of the first message tagged with name, removes the returned message by default
     def get(self, name, remove=True):
@@ -69,4 +74,4 @@ class Communication:
 
     def __del__(self):
         if len(self.__messages)>0:
-            warn("__messages not empty upon destruction of Communitation object:\n"+str(self.__messages))
+            warn("__messages not empty upon destruction of Communication object:\n"+str(self.__messages))