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Well I went off on a bit of a tangent tonight , yet again. But I was thinking about options to connect my views to Custom Classes as you can with loading a UIFile with bindings. I am sure there are simpler ways, but I wanted to check it out anyway.

So the idea was I could create a simple view using v=ui.View() and bind that to a custom class. Anyway, that was not going to work itself. But I thought what if I create a json Str that ui.load_view_str() expects and pass the bindings. Btw. ui.load_view_str() is not documented as far as I know. But you can see it in the ui module.

Anyway, below is what I come up with. I don't really understand it 100% and maybe it's a horrible idea. I am surprised what it does. Regardless also got me started thinking about a memory ui object to dict -> json str, so it can be written out as a pyui file. As far as I know, no one has written this. If they have, please let me know. Would be so handy to have a function like that.

Anyway, this is what I did, maybe I went around the block 5 times to do something a simple assignment can do...

import ui, json
d = \
[
  {
    "selected" : False,
    "frame" : "{{0, 0}, {600, 800}}",
    "class" : "View",
    "nodes" : [],
    "attributes" : {
      "custom_class" : "Panel",
      "enabled" : True,
      "background_color" : "RGBA(1.000000,1.000000,1.000000,1.000000)",
      "tint_color" : "RGBA(0.000000,0.478000,1.000000,1.000000)",
      "border_color" : "RGBA(0.000000,0.000000,0.000000,1.000000)",
      "flex" : ""
    }
  }
] 

class Panel(ui.View):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        self.bg_color = 'purple'
        self.xxxxxxxx = 'dynamic Attr'

    def h(self):
        print('hello from Panel class')

def pyui_bindings(obj):
    # JonB
    def WrapInstance(obj):
        class Wrapper(obj.__class__):
            def __new__(cls):
                return obj
        return Wrapper

    bindings = globals().copy()
    bindings[obj.__class__.__name__]=WrapInstance(obj)
    return bindings 

j_str = json.dumps(d)
v = ui.load_view_str(j_str, pyui_bindings(Panel))
v.present('sheet')
# dir(v) shows the xxxxxxxx attr
print(dir(v))
# v links to Panel.h method
v.h()