Interacting with the Display

This actually isn’t going to take much more work than the standard hello world example. Except we are introduction a new concept or object type.

The Display.

Note

type help Display from the SimpleCV shell for more help

What the display is doing different than the show() function is that it allows us to get interaction from it. So it in this case we want our program to end when the left mouse button is clicked.

To create a display object we literally type:

>>> disp = Display()

Now we will incorporate this into our example:

from SimpleCV import *
cam = Camera()
disp = Display()

while disp.isNotDone():
        img = cam.getImage()
        if disp.mouseLeft:
                break
        img.save(disp)

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So what is happening here. Is we created a display object. It then checks it’s function called isNotDone(). That function updates the display and makes sure to see if any events have occurect, such as in our case the screen had been clicked on with the left mouse, then update.

So the event is updated and the next time through the while loop we check:

if disp.mouseLeft:

What this is doing is returns true or false depending of if it was clicked. In the instance that it was actually clicked, then it runs break, which tells the while() loop at the begin to break the loop, and of course our program then exits.