This is a python app, based on the MVC concept that creates a script, kind of like a movie script.
It uses a simple Tkinter interface window, that grabs user input to make the script structure.
This is a college project and it's far from perfect, but it meets the functionality expectations! I'll probably keep working and tweaking it for a while!
I've made this public 'cause it could help the community somehow, and you guys (the internet) are free to use!
Hope it helps someone, after all...we're all eternal students!
- Story
- Scene
- Character
- Line
- Tkinter
If you intend to run it from VS Code you'll need to install Tkinter.
It should come with Python3.* already. But I was using Python 3.7 in this project and somehow, VS Code was not finding tkinter module. Anyway, make sure you have it!
- Installing on Fedora (python3):
sudo dnf install python3-tk- Installing on Ubuntu (python3):
sudo apt-get install python3-tk- Set Chrome as Default Browser
The app opens a HTML page showing the full scructure of a selected script.
Internet Explorer doesn't handle it very well and sometimes it might show a blank page (depending on the version you're using).
So, to be certain that everything will work smoothly, I advise you to set Chrome as your default browser!
If you've already set Chrome for default but the app keeps opening IE, you'll need to tell Python's webbrowser method where the chrome executable is.
- Windows:
page = './page.html' # HTML file in the working directory
chrome_path = 'C:/Program Files/Google/Chrome/Application/chrome.exe %s' # path to Chrome
webbrowser.get(chrome_path).open(page) # opens the HTML file with ChromeIf this is not working for you, try 'Program Files (x86)' instead
- Mac OS:
page = './page.html' # HTML file in the working directory
chrome_path = 'open -a /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app %s' # path to Chrome executable
webbrowser.get(chrome_path).open(page) # opens the HTML file with Chrome- Linux:
page = './page.html' # HTML file in the working directory
chrome_path = '/usr/bin/google-chrome %s' # path to Chrome executable
webbrowser.get(chrome_path).open(page) # opens the HTML file with Chrome- Create a Story
You can create a story, entering the story name, the scene, the character in that scene and the character's line!
- Save Stories
Once a story is created the app creates a database file (script.db) and saves it in there, so you can use them later!
The database here is Python's SQLite!
- Load Stories
You can load stories that are already stored in the database!
- Play Stories
This option opens a HTML page with the whole story info!
You can either play a story from input or load one from database, select it and play it!