Code reorganization in Glue v0.7#

In the Glue v0.7 release, a large number of functions and classes have been reorganized to help make the code base more approachable to new developers. As a result, users importing classes/functions from Glue may need to update imports in e.g. config scripts. Most of the files affected are likely only used internally in Glue, but all the moves are nevertheless documented below for completeness.

For a few common cases, backward-compatibility is provided for now. These special cases are:

Old location in Glue v0.6

New location in Glue v0.7

glue.qt.get_qapp

glue.external.qt.get_qapp

glue.qt.qtutil.load_ui

glue.utils.qt.helpers.load_ui

glue.qt.widget_properties

glue.utils.qt.widget_properties

glue.qt.widgets.data_viewer

glue.viewers.common.qt.data_viewer

The old imports will continue to work for now, but will be removed in future, after a couple of major releases.

On the other hand, the following imports will need to be updated now, as no backward-compatibility is provided for these:

Old location in Glue v0.6

New location in Glue v0.7

glue.clients.ds9norm

glue.viewers.image.ds9norm

glue.clients.histogram_client

glue.viewers.histogram.client

glue.clients.image_client

glue.viewers.image.client

glue.clients.layer_artist.ChangedTrigger

glue.clients.layer_artist.ChangedTrigger

glue.clients.layer_artist.LayerArtistContainer

glue.clients.layer_artist.LayerArtistContainer

glue.clients.layer_artist.LayerArtist

glue.clients.layer_artist.MatplotlibLayerArtist

glue.clients.profile_viewer

glue.plugins.tools.spectrum_viewer.profile_viewer

glue.clients.scatter_client

glue.viewers.scatter.client

glue.clients.tests.util.renderless_figure

glue.utils.matplotlib.renderless_figure

glue.clients.util.small_view_array

glue.core.util.small_view_array

glue.clients.util.small_view

glue.core.util.small_view

glue.clients.util.tick_linker

glue.core.util.tick_linker

glue.clients.util.update_ticks

glue.core.util.update_ticks

glue.clients.util.visible_limits

glue.core.util.visible_limits

glue.core.qt.simpleforms

glue.core.qt.simpleforms

glue.core.util.CallbackMixin

glue.utils.misc.CallbackMixin

glue.core.util.defer

glue.utils.misc.defer

glue.core.util.Pointer

glue.utils.misc.Pointer

glue.core.util.PropertySetMixin

glue.utils.misc.PropertySetMixin

glue.qt.custom_viewer

glue.viewers.custom.qt

glue.qt.data_slice_widget

glue.viewers.common.qt.data_slice_widget

glue.qt.decorators

glue.utils.qt.decorators

glue.qt.feedback.FeedbackWidget

glue.app.qt.feedback.FeedbackWidget

glue.qt.glue_application.GlueApplication

glue.app.qt.application.GlueApplication

glue.qt.glue_toolbar

glue.viewers.common.qt.toolbar

glue.qt.layer_artist_model

glue.core.qt.layer_artist_model

glue.qt.link_editor

glue.dialogs.link_editor.qt

glue.qt.mime.PyMimeData

glue.utils.qt.mime.PyMimeData

glue.qt.mime

glue.core.qt.mime

glue.qt.mouse_mode

glue.viewers.common.qt.mouse_mode

glue.qt.plugin_manager.QtPluginManager

glue.app.qt.plugin_manager.QtPluginManager

glue.qt.qtutil.action

glue.app.qt.actions.action

glue.qt.qtutil.cache_axes

glue.utils.matplotlib.cache_axes

glue.qt.qtutil.cmap2pixmap

glue.utils.qt.colors.cmap2pixmap

glue.qt.qtutil.ComponentIDCombo

glue.core.qt.component_id_combo

glue.qt.qtutil.data_wizard

glue.dialogs.data_wizard.qt.data_wizard

glue.qt.qtutil.get_text

glue.utils.qt.dialogs.get_text

glue.qt.qtutil.GlueActionButton

glue.app.qt.actions.GlueActionButton

glue.qt.qtutil.GlueItemWidget

glue.utils.qt.mixins.GlueItemWidget

glue.qt.qtutil.GlueListWidget

glue.core.qt.mime.GlueMimeListWidget

glue.qt.qtutil.GlueTabBar

glue.utils.qt.helpers.GlueTabBar

glue.qt.qtutil.icon_path

glue.icons.icon_path

glue.qt.qtutil.layer_artist_icon

glue.icons.qt.layer_artist_icon

glue.qt.qtutil.layer_icon

glue.icons.qt.layer_icon

glue.qt.qtutil.load_icon

glue.icons.qt.load_icon

glue.qt.qtutil.mpl_to_qt4_color

glue.utils.qt.colors.mpl_to_qt4_color

glue.qt.qtutil.pick_class

glue.utils.qt.dialogs.pick_class

glue.qt.qtutil.pick_item

glue.utils.qt.dialogs.pick_item

glue.qt.qtutil.pretty_number

glue.utils.qt.PropertySetMixin

glue.qt.qtutil.PythonListModel

glue.utils.qt.python_list_model.PythonListModel

glue.qt.qtutil.qt4_to_mpl_color

glue.utils.qt.colors.qt4_to_mpl_color

glue.qt.qtutil.RGBEdit

glue.viewers.image.qt.rgb_edit.RGBEdit

glue.qt.qtutil.symbol_icon

glue.icons.qt.symbol_icon

glue.qt.qtutil.tint_pixmap

glue.utils.qt.colors.tint_pixmap

glue.qt.qtutil.update_combobox

glue.utils.qt.helpers.update_combobox

glue.qt.qtutil.Worker

glue.utils.qt.threading.Worker

glue.qt.qt_backend.Timer

glue.backends.QtTimer

glue.qt.qt_roi

glue.core.qt.roi

glue.qt.widgets.custom_component_widget

glue.dialogs.custom_component.qt

glue.qt.widgets.glue_mdi_area

glue.app.qt.mdi_area

glue.qt.widgets.histogram_widget

glue.viewers.histogram.qt

glue.qt.widgets.histogram_widget

glue.viewers.image.qt

glue.qt.widgets.layer_tree_widget

glue.app.qt.layer_tree_widget

glue.qt.widgets.message_widget

glue.core.qt.message_widget

glue.qt.widgets.MplWidget

glue.viewers.common.qt.mpl_widget.MplWidget

glue.qt.widgets.mpl_widget

glue.viewers.common.qt.mpl_widget

glue.qt.widgets.scatter_widget

glue.viewers.scatter.qt

glue.qt.widgets.settings_editor

glue.app.qt.settings_editor

glue.qt.widgets.style_dialog

glue.core.qt.style_dialog

glue.qt.widgets.subset_facet

glue.dialogs.subset_facet.qt

glue.qt.widgets.table_widget

glue.viewers.table.qt

glue.qt.widgets.terminal

glue.app.qt.terminal

If it would be helpful for us to add back backward-compatibility for any of these, please let us know!