AppTools

The Enthought Tool Suite includes a set of packages that we have found useful in creating a number of applications. They implement functionality that is commonly needed by many applications. These packages are distributed together as the AppTools project:

• enthought.help — Implements the Adobe RoboHelp API in Python, for compiled HTML Help (.chm) and RoboHelp WebHelp formats. Includes an Envisage plug-in to provide context-sensitive help for applications. Can also be used in Traits-based, non-Envisage applications.
• enthought.io — Provides an abstraction for files and folders in a file system.
• enthought.logging — Manages event logging.
• enthought.naming — Manages naming contexts, supporting non-string data types and scoped preferences.
• enthought.persistence — Supports pickling the state of a Python object to a dictionary, which can then be flexibly applied in restoring the state of the object.
• enthought.preferences — Manages application preferences.
• enthought.resource — Manages application resources such as images and sounds.
• enthought.sweet_pickle — Handles class-level versioning, to support loading of saved data that exist over several generations of internal class structures.
• enthought.template — Supports creating templatizable object hierarchies.
• enthought.type_manager — Manages type extensions, including factories to generate adapters, and hooks for methods and functions.
• enthought.undo — Supports undoing and scripting application commands.