Index

A

• ActionBar
  • about / ActionBar – a responsive bar
• ActionBar widget
  • defining / ActionBar – a responsive bar
  • about / ActionBar – a responsive bar
• ActionGroup groups
  • about / ActionBar – a responsive bar
• ActionItem
  • about / ActionBar – a responsive bar
• ActionPrevious
  • about / ActionBar – a responsive bar
• ActionView
  • about / ActionBar – a responsive bar
• action_previous property
  • about / ActionBar – a responsive bar
• add method
  • about / Basic widget events – dragging the stickman
• add_gesture
  • about / Recognizing gestures – drawing with the finger
• add_stroke method
  • about / Recording gestures – line, circle, and cross
• add_widget method
  • about / Localizing coordinates – adding stickmen
• AliasProperty property
  • about / Kivy and its properties
• Ammo animation
  • using / Ammo – simple animation
• AnchorLayout
  • about / Embedding layouts
  / Our project – Comic Creator
• anchor_x property
  • about / Embedding layouts
• anchor_y property
  • about / Embedding layouts
• Animation
  • about / Ammo – simple animation
• App class
  • about / Basic interface – Hello World!
• app keyword
  • about / Attributes, ID, and root
• app_icon
  • about / ActionBar – a responsive bar
• AsyncImage
  • about / AsyncImage – creating a cover for the video
• AsyncImage widget
  • about / AsyncImage – creating a cover for the video
• Atlas
  • using / Atlas – An efficient management of images
  • about / Atlas – An efficient management of images
• attribute
  • about / Creating your own events – the magical properties
• attributes
  • about / Attributes, ID, and root
• automatic binding, in Kivy language
  • defining / Dock – automatic binding in the Kivy language

B

• backgrounds
  • adding / Adding images, colors, and backgrounds
• background_color property
  • about / Structuring graphic instructions
• background_down property
  • about / Style – decorating the interface
• background_normal property
  • about / Style – decorating the interface
• basename parameter
  • about / Atlas – An efficient management of images
• basic shapes
  • drawing / Drawing basic shapes
• Behaviors
  • defining / Behaviors – enhancing widget's functionality
• behavior types
  • ButtonBehavior / Behaviors – enhancing widget's functionality
  • ToggleButtonBehavior / Behaviors – enhancing widget's functionality
  • DragBehavior / Behaviors – enhancing widget's functionality
• Bezier
  • about / Drawing basic shapes
• bind/unbind
  • about / Binding and unbinding events – sizing limbs and heads
• bold property
  • about / Style – decorating the interface
• border property
  • about / PageLayout – swiping pages
• BoundedNumericProperty property
  • about / Kivy and its properties
• BoxLayout / Our project – Comic Creator
• Builder class
  • about / Color control on the canvas – coloring figures
• Button
  • about / Basic widgets – labels and buttons
• ButtonBehavior
  • about / Behaviors – enhancing widget's functionality
• Bézier curves
  • URL / Drawing basic shapes

C

• canvas
  • using / PageLayout – swiping pages
  • defining / Understanding the canvas
• canvas instances
  • canvas.before / Structuring graphic instructions
  • canvas.after / Structuring graphic instructions
• Canvas object
  • about / Understanding the canvas
• circle
  • about / Drawing basic shapes
• clearcolor property
  • about / Style – decorating the interface
• clear_widgets method
  • about / Binding events in the Kivy language
• Clock class
  • about / Scheduling events with the clock
• close property
  • about / Drawing basic shapes
• collide_point method
  • about / Basic widget events – dragging the stickman
• ColorPicker widget
  • about / ScreenManager – selecting colors for the figures
• color property
  • about / Basic widgets – labels and buttons, ScreenManager – selecting colors for the figures
• colors
  • adding / Adding images, colors, and backgrounds
• color_picker.color
  • about / Color control on the canvas – coloring figures
• cols property
  • about / Embedding layouts
• Comic Creator
  • about / Understanding the canvas
• ContextInstruction base class
  • about / Drawing basic shapes
• control bar
  • used, for controlling video / Control bar – adding buttons to control the video
• coordinates
  • localizing / Localizing coordinates – adding stickmen
• coordinate space
  • rotating / Rotating, translating, and scaling the coordinate space
  • translating / Rotating, translating, and scaling the coordinate space
  • scaling / Rotating, translating, and scaling the coordinate space
• current property
  • about / ScreenManager – selecting colors for the figures

D

• dash_length property
  • about / Drawing basic shapes
• dash_offset property
  • about / Drawing basic shapes
• DictProperty
  • about / Creating your own events – the magical properties
• directives
  • about / Basic interface – Hello World!
• disabled property
  • about / Recognizing gestures – drawing with the finger, AsyncImage – creating a cover for the video
• double_tap key
  • about / Video – play, pause, and stop
• duration
  • about / Invader – transitions for animations

E

• Ellipse
  • working / Drawing basic shapes
  • angle_start / Drawing basic shapes
  • angle_end / Drawing basic shapes
  • segments / Drawing basic shapes
• end of stream (EOS)
  • about / Video – play, pause, and stop
• Error! Reference source not found
  • about / Subtitles – tracking the video progression, Slider – including a progression bar
• events
  • binding / Binding and unbinding events – sizing limbs and heads
  • unbinding / Binding and unbinding events – sizing limbs and heads
  • binding, in Kivy language / Binding events in the Kivy language
  • creating / Creating your own events – the magical properties
  • scheduling, with clock / Scheduling events with the clock
• events, Animation class
  • on_start / Ammo – simple animation
  • on_progress / Ammo – simple animation
  • on_stop / Ammo – simple animation

F

• Factory
  • used, for replacing vertex instruction / Factory – replacing a vertex instruction
  • about / Factory – replacing a vertex instruction
• Factory class
  • about / Factory – replacing a vertex instruction, Video – play, pause, and stop
  • URL / Video – play, pause, and stop
• FileChooserListView widget
  • about / LoadDialog – displaying a directory of files
• find method
  • about / Recognizing gestures – drawing with the finger
• fixed coordinates
  • about / Basic widgets – labels and buttons
• fixed coordinates (pixels)
  • about / Layouts
• fleet
  • animating / Fleet – infinite concatenation of animations
• FloatLayout example
  • about / Layouts
• FocusBehaviour class
  • about / ActionBar – a responsive bar
• font_size property
  • about / Basic widgets – labels and buttons

G

• Gesture class
  • about / Recording gestures – line, circle, and cross
• GestureDatabase class
  • about / Recording gestures – line, circle, and cross
• gestures
  • recording / Recording gestures – line, circle, and cross
  • recognizing / Recognizing gestures – drawing with the finger
• gestures ToggleButton
  • about / Recognizing gestures – drawing with the finger
• gesture_to_str string
  • about / Recording gestures – line, circle, and cross
• graphic instructions
  • structuring / Structuring graphic instructions
• GridLayout
  • about / Embedding layouts
• group property
  • about / Our project – Comic Creator
• GUI building process
  • about / Layouts

H

• height property
  • about / Basic widgets – labels and buttons
• Hello World program
  • about / Basic interface – Hello World!

I

• ID
  • about / Attributes, ID, and root
• image list parameter
  • about / Atlas – An efficient management of images
• images
  • adding / Adding images, colors, and backgrounds
• Image widget
  • about / Video – play, pause, and stop
• import directive
  • about / Basic widget events – dragging the stickman
• indexes property
  • about / Drawing basic shapes
• inheritance
  • about / Basic interface – Hello World!
• instruction set
  • canvas.before / Structuring graphic instructions
  • canvas / Structuring graphic instructions
  • canvas.after / Structuring graphic instructions
• instruction types
  • vertex instructions / Drawing basic shapes
  • context instructions / Drawing basic shapes
• Invaders Revenge game
  • defining / Invaders Revenge – an animated multi-touch game
  • Atlas, using / Atlas – An efficient management of images
  • Boom instance, defining / Boom – simple sound effects
  • sound effects, adding / Boom – simple sound effects
  • Ammo animation, using / Ammo – simple animation
  • Linear transition, defining / Invader – transitions for animations
  • automatic binding, in Kivy language / Dock – automatic binding in the Kivy language
  • fleet, animating / Fleet – infinite concatenation of animations
  • events, scheduling with clock / Scheduling events with the clock
  • multi-touch actions, handling / Shooter – multi-touch control
  • shooter, moving with keyboard / Invasion – moving the shooter with the keyboard
  • animations, combining with + operator / Combining animations with '+' and '
  • animations, combining with & operator / Combining animations with '+' and '

J

• JSON format
  • URL / Subtitles – tracking the video progression

K

• keyboard
  • about / Invasion – moving the shooter with the keyboard
• Kivy
  • defining / Kivy and its properties
  • properties / Kivy and its properties
  • about / Shooter – multi-touch control
• kivy.uix
  • URL / Basic widgets – labels and buttons
• Kivy 1.9.0
  • URL / ScreenManager – selecting colors for the figures
• Kivy API
  • URL / Layouts, Our project – Comic Creator, Drawing basic shapes, Kivy and its properties, ScreenManager – selecting colors for the figures, Invader – transitions for animations
• Kivy id
  • about / Our project – Comic Creator
• Kivy inspector
  • used, for debugging interfaces / Kivy inspector – debugging interfaces
  • about / Kivy inspector – debugging interfaces
• Kivy language
  • events, binding in / Binding events in the Kivy language
• Kivy markup
  • about / Our project – Comic Creator
• KivyPlayer
  • about / ActionBar – a responsive bar

L

• Label
  • about / Basic interface – Hello World!
• Label class
  • about / Behaviors – enhancing widget's functionality
• Layouts
  • about / Layouts
  • FloatLayout / Layouts
  • RelativeLayout / Layouts
  • GridLayout / Layouts
  • BoxLayout / Layouts
  • StackLayout / Layouts
  • ScatterLayout / Layouts
  • PageLayout / Layouts
  • embedding / Embedding layouts
• Line (shape F)
  • about / Drawing basic shapes
• Linear transition
  • defining / Invader – transitions for animations
• Line instructions
  • about / Drawing basic shapes
• ListProperty
  • about / Creating your own events – the magical properties, Fleet – infinite concatenation of animations
• LoadDialog class
  • used, for displaying directory of files / LoadDialog – displaying a directory of files
• load_file method
  • about / Color control on the canvas – coloring figures
• load_string method
  • about / Color control on the canvas – coloring figures

M

• manager attribute
  • about / ScreenManager – selecting colors for the figures
• max property
  • about / Slider – including a progression bar
• Mesh instructions
  • about / Drawing basic shapes
• methods, DrawingSpace class
  • __init__ / Recognizing gestures – drawing with the finger
  • activate / Recognizing gestures – drawing with the finger
  • deactivate / Recognizing gestures – drawing with the finger
  • down / Recognizing gestures – drawing with the finger
  • move / Recognizing gestures – drawing with the finger
  • ups / Recognizing gestures – drawing with the finger
  • gesturize / Recognizing gestures – drawing with the finger
  • min_and_max / Recognizing gestures – drawing with the finger
  • Discriminate / Recognizing gestures – drawing with the finger
  • add_circle / Recognizing gestures – drawing with the finger
  • add_Line / Recognizing gestures – drawing with the finger
  • add_stickman / Recognizing gestures – drawing with the finger
  • on_children / Recognizing gestures – drawing with the finger
• minscore parameter
  • about / Recognizing gestures – drawing with the finger
• mode property
  • about / Drawing basic shapes
• MotionEvent class
  • URL / Shooter – multi-touch control
• multi-touch actions, game
  • handling / Shooter – multi-touch control

N

• name property
  • about / ScreenManager – selecting colors for the figures
• normalize
  • about / Recording gestures – line, circle, and cross
• NumericProperty
  • about / Creating your own events – the magical properties

O

• & operator
  • about / Combining animations with '+' and '
• + operator
  • about / Combining animations with '+' and '
• ObjectProperty
  • about / Creating your own events – the magical properties
• on_eos method
  • about / Video – play, pause, and stop
• on_keyboard_down event
  • about / Invasion – moving the shooter with the keyboard
• on_press event
  • about / Binding events in the Kivy language
• on_press method
  • about / Behaviors – enhancing widget's functionality
• on_progress method
  • about / Ammo – simple animation
• on_release event
  • about / Binding events in the Kivy language
• on_source method
  • about / Video – play, pause, and stop
• on_start method
  • about / Ammo – simple animation
• on_state event
  • about / Binding events in the Kivy language
• on_state method
  • about / Video – play, pause, and stop, AsyncImage – creating a cover for the video
• on_touch_down event
  • about / Basic widget events – dragging the stickman
• on_touch_move event
  • about / Basic widget events – dragging the stickman
• on_touch_up event
  • about / Basic widget events – dragging the stickman
• opacity property
  • about / AsyncImage – creating a cover for the video
• orientation property
  • about / Embedding layouts
• origin property
  • about / Rotating, translating, and scaling the coordinate space

P

• padding property
  • about / Embedding layouts
• PageLayout
  • about / PageLayout – swiping pages
  • pages, swiping / PageLayout – swiping pages
• page property
  • about / PageLayout – swiping pages
• parent
  • about / Basic widget events – dragging the stickman
• parent Widget
  • about / Basic widget events – dragging the stickman
• Pillow library
  • URL / Atlas – An efficient management of images
• pointsize property
  • about / Drawing basic shapes
• points property
  • about / Drawing basic shapes
• PopMatrix
  • defining / Comic Creator: PushMatrix and PopMatrix
  • about / Comic Creator: PushMatrix and PopMatrix
• Popup
  • about / Behaviors – enhancing widget's functionality
• positioning and sizing properties
  • size_hint / Layouts
  • size_hint_x / Layouts
  • size_hint_y / Layouts
  • pos_hint / Layouts
  • size / Layouts
  • width / Layouts
  • height / Layouts
  • pos / Layouts
  • x, right or center_x / Layouts
  • y, top or center_y / Layouts
• pos property
  • about / Drawing basic shapes
• pos_hint
  • about / Layouts
• press method
  • about / Invasion – moving the shooter with the keyboard
• progression
  • about / Ammo – simple animation
• project, Comic Creator
  • defining / Our project – Comic Creator
• property
  • about / Basic interface – Hello World!, Creating your own events – the magical properties
• proportional coordinates
  • about / Layouts
• proxy server
  • URL / Search – query the TED Developer API
• PushMatrix
  • defining / Comic Creator: PushMatrix and PopMatrix
  • about / Comic Creator: PushMatrix and PopMatrix

Q

• Quad (shape E)
  • about / Drawing basic shapes

R

• Rectangle
  • about / Drawing basic shapes
• rectangle
  • about / Drawing basic shapes
• register method
  • about / Factory – replacing a vertex instruction
• relative=True parameter
  • about / Binding and unbinding events – sizing limbs and heads
• RelativeLayout
  • about / Embedding layouts, Comic Creator: PushMatrix and PopMatrix
• remove method
  • about / Basic widget events – dragging the stickman
• remove_widget method
  • about / Binding events in the Kivy language
• rgba property / Adding images, colors, and backgrounds
• rgb property
  • about / Rotating, translating, and scaling the coordinate space
• right key
  • about / Layouts
• root
  • about / Attributes, ID, and root
  • using / Attributes, ID, and root
• root keyword
  • about / Attributes, ID, and root
• root variable
  • about / Basic widgets – labels and buttons
• Rotate
  • about / Rotating, translating, and scaling the coordinate space
• Rotate instruction
  • about / Rotating, translating, and scaling the coordinate space
• rotate method
  • about / Recognizing gestures – drawing with the finger
• rows property
  • about / Embedding layouts
• rule
  • about / Basic interface – Hello World!

S

• Scale
  • about / Rotating, translating, and scaling the coordinate space
• Scatter
  • about / Scatter – multi-touching to drag, rotate, and scale
• Scatter class
  • defining / Scatter – multi-touching to drag, rotate, and scale
  • used, for multi-touching to drag / Scatter – multi-touching to drag, rotate, and scale
  • used, for multi-touching to rotate / Scatter – multi-touching to drag, rotate, and scale
  • used, for multi-touching to scale / Scatter – multi-touching to drag, rotate, and scale
• ScatterLayout
  • about / Scatter – multi-touching to drag, rotate, and scale
• schedule_interval method
  • about / Scheduling events with the clock
• schedule_once method
  • about / Scheduling events with the clock
• ScreenManager class
  • defining / ScreenManager – selecting colors for the figures
  • used, for selecting colors / ScreenManager – selecting colors for the figures
  • about / ScreenManager – selecting colors for the figures
• Screen widget
  • about / ScreenManager – selecting colors for the figures
• ScrollView
  • used, for displaying list of videos / ScrollView – displaying a list of videos
  • about / ScrollView – displaying a list of videos
• search method
  • using / Search – query the TED Developer API
• segments property
  • about / Drawing basic shapes
• selected color
  • using / Color control on the canvas – coloring figures
  • used, for coloring figures / Color control on the canvas – coloring figures
• self keyword
  • about / Attributes, ID, and root
• self variable
  • about / Basic widgets – labels and buttons
• set directive
  • about / AsyncImage – creating a cover for the video
• size parameter
  • about / Atlas – An efficient management of images
• size property
  • about / Drawing basic shapes
• size_hint
  • about / Layouts
• Slider widget
  • defining / Slider – including a progression bar
• Sound
  • about / Boom – simple sound effects
• SoundLoader
  • about / Boom – simple sound effects
• source property / Adding images, colors, and backgrounds
• state property
  • about / Video – play, pause, and stop
• StatusBar
  • about / Behaviors – enhancing widget's functionality
• StencilView
  • defining / StencilView – limiting the drawing space
  • used, for limiting drawing space / StencilView – limiting the drawing space
• stickman
  • drawing / Our project – Comic Creator
  • dragging / Basic widget events – dragging the stickman
  • adding / Localizing coordinates – adding stickmen
• StringProperty
  • about / Creating your own events – the magical properties
• str_to_gesture
  • about / Recognizing gestures – drawing with the finger
• Style
  • used, for decorating interface / Style – decorating the interface
• subtitles
  • defining / Subtitles – tracking the video progression
• swipe_threshold
  • about / PageLayout – swiping pages

T

• TED
  • URL / Video – play, pause, and stop
• TED site
  • URL / Search – query the TED Developer API
• TextInput
  • about / ActionBar – a responsive bar
• TextInput widget
  • about / ActionBar – a responsive bar
• texture_size property
  • about / Subtitles – tracking the video progression
• ToggleButton class
  • about / Our project – Comic Creator
• ToolFigure class
  • draw method / Binding and unbinding events – sizing limbs and heads
  • update_figure method / Binding and unbinding events – sizing limbs and heads
  • end_figure method / Binding and unbinding events – sizing limbs and heads
  • widgetize method / Binding and unbinding events – sizing limbs and heads
  • create_figure method / Binding and unbinding events – sizing limbs and heads
  • create_widget method / Binding and unbinding events – sizing limbs and heads
• top key
  • about / Layouts
• to_parent() method
  • about / Localizing coordinates – adding stickmen
• to_parent method
  • about / Basic widget events – dragging the stickman
• transition
  • about / Invader – transitions for animations
• transitions
  • about / ScreenManager – selecting colors for the figures, Invader – transitions for animations
• transitions, Kivy
  • FadeTransition / ScreenManager – selecting colors for the figures
  • SwapTransition / ScreenManager – selecting colors for the figures
  • SlideTransition / ScreenManager – selecting colors for the figures
  • WipeTransition / ScreenManager – selecting colors for the figures
• Translate
  • about / Rotating, translating, and scaling the coordinate space
• Triangle (shape D)
  • about / Drawing basic shapes

U

• unregister method
  • about / Factory – replacing a vertex instruction
• unscheduled method
  • about / Scheduling events with the clock
• UrlRequest class
  • about / Subtitles – tracking the video progression
• use_separator property
  • about / ActionBar – a responsive bar

V

• value property
  • about / Slider – including a progression bar
• VertexInstruction base class
  • about / Drawing basic shapes
• vertex instructions
  • replacing / Factory – replacing a vertex instruction
  • about / Factory – replacing a vertex instruction
• vertices property
  • about / Drawing basic shapes
• Video class
  • about / Video – play, pause, and stop
  • allow_stretch property / Video – play, pause, and stop
  • color property / Video – play, pause, and stop
  • source property / Video – play, pause, and stop
• VideoController
  • about / ActionBar – a responsive bar
• Video widget
  • about / Video – play, pause, and stop
  • used, for play / Video – play, pause, and stop
  • used, for pause / Video – play, pause, and stop
  • used, for stop / Video – play, pause, and stop
• volume property
  • about / ActionBar – a responsive bar

W

• widget
  • about / Basic interface – Hello World!
  • hiding / Animation – hiding a widget
• Widget
  • about / Understanding the canvas
• Widget class
  • about / Basic widgets – labels and buttons
  • to_parent() method / Localizing coordinates – adding stickmen
  • to_local() method / Localizing coordinates – adding stickmen
  • to_window() method / Localizing coordinates – adding stickmen
  • to_widget() method / Localizing coordinates – adding stickmen
• widget events
  • about / Basic widget events – dragging the stickman
  • on_touch_down / Basic widget events – dragging the stickman
  • on_touch_move / Basic widget events – dragging the stickman
  • on_touch_up / Basic widget events – dragging the stickman
• Widget object
  • about / Understanding the canvas
• widgets
  • labels / Basic widgets – labels and buttons
  • buttons / Basic widgets – labels and buttons
• widgets, ActionView
  • ActionListButton / ActionBar – a responsive bar
  • ActionToggleButton / ActionBar – a responsive bar
  • ActionGroup / ActionBar – a responsive bar
• width property
  • about / Basic widgets – labels and buttons
• Window class
  • about / Style – decorating the interface, Invader – transitions for animations

X

• x property
  • about / Basic widgets – labels and buttons

Y

• y property
  • about / Basic widgets – labels and buttons