Quick rough setup of justCheckers as a Kivy app.

justcheckers/app.py

@@ -1,59 +1,43 @@
-#
-# Copyright (c) 2014 Dorian Pula <dorian.pula@amber-penguin-software.ca>
-#
-# justCheckers is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it
-# under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
-# Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License,
-# or (at your option) any later version.
-#
-# justCheckers is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
-# WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-# GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
-# with justCheckers.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-#
-# Please share and enjoy!
-#
+"""
+Main application for justCheckers
+
+:copyright: Copyright 2004-2017, Dorian Pula <dorian.pula@amber-penguin-software.ca>
+:license: GPL v3+
+"""
 
 import logging
 import os
 import sys
 
-from PySide import QtGui
+from kivy.app import App
+from kivy.logger import Logger
 
 import justcheckers
-from justcheckers.ui.window import DesktopGameWindow
 
 
 LOG = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 
-def main():
-    """Main entry point into the app."""
-    app = QtGui.QApplication(sys.argv)
-    log_system_and_game_info()
-    view = DesktopGameWindow()
-    view.show()
-    app.exec_()
-    sys.exit()
+class JustCheckersApp(App):
+    def on_start(self):
+        log_system_and_game_info()
+        super(JustCheckersApp, self).on_start()
 
 
 def log_system_and_game_info():
     """Logs information about the game and system running the game."""
-    LOG.info('justCheckers -- v{}'.format(justcheckers.__version__))
+    Logger.info('justCheckers -- v{}'.format(justcheckers.__version__))
 
     message = 'I am running on {os}.\nMy screen is {height}x{width}'
-    geometry = QtGui.QDesktopWidget().availableGeometry()
+    root_window = App.get_running_app().root_window
 
     os_sys = sys.platform
     if sys.platform == 'posix':
         os_name, _, _, _, os_arch = os.uname()
         os_sys = '{name} {arch}'.format(name=os_name, arch=os_arch)
 
-    LOG.info(message.format(os=os_sys, height=geometry.height(), width=geometry.width()))
+    Logger.info(message.format(os=os_sys, height=root_window.height, width=root_window.width))
 
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
-    main()
+    JustCheckersApp().run()

justcheckers/justcheckers.kv

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+#: import justcheckers justcheckers
+
+BoxLayout:
+    Label:
+        text: "justCheckers {}".format(justcheckers.__version__)