Kivy inspector – debugging interfaces
Sometimes, we encounter problems when we implement our interfaces, and it can be difficult to understand what went wrong, especially when many of the widgets don't have a graphic display. In this section, we will use the application that we created in this chapter to introduce the Kivy inspector, a simple tool to debug interfaces. In order to start the inspector, you run the following command: python kivyplayer.py –m inspector. You won't notice any difference at the beginning but if you press Ctrl + E, a bar will appear at the bottom of the screen, just like the one in the left screenshot of the following image:
If we press the button Move to Top (the first from left to right in the bar), the bar will move ...
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