SKVE - A simple key-value editor

NOTE: Currently using a local version on textual!!

Hi, and welcome to the Alpha 0.0.1 release of skve (pronounced "skyve").

This is my first Textual application, so the main point of publishing it is to get feedback and ideas for improvement in any and all aspects of the code, which is at present vestigial.

The project uses the poetry utility. Installation is normally straightforward. Once you have installed it, the following instructions should suffice.

Create the virtual environment [optional]

Poetry creates virtual environments for a project - the pyproject.toml details the dependencies and various other aspect of the project.

If you'd like to use a specific version of Python, run the following command with no virtual environment active. This step is optional.

poetry env use 3.X

3.X should indicate a Python version available on your machine, which can be anywhere from 8 to 11 at the time of writing.

Install the dependencies

To populate the virtual environment run

poetry install

If you did not create a virtual environment, poetry will automatically create one using your environment's default python, in which it installs the project's dependencies.

Running the editor

From now on you can run a command in the virtual enviroment by prefixing it with poetry run. Alternatively, run poetry shell to get a shell where your virtual environment is the default python.

Using the first method:

poetry run textual run textutils.people

In the second case:

poetry shell
textual run textutils.people

In either case you should shortly be presented with a screen that looks similar to this.

Enter one or more letters in the search window and names will appear, the list being updated at each keystroke.

Clicking on a name beings up that person's data in the results window, and clicking on any row allows you to edit that value (but not the key, currently). Saving a record changes its value for the rest of the run, but any new run will always begin with the same initial data.

I don't yet understand the textual testing framework, which is why there aren't currently any tests to speak of. A recent release included more realistic test data from a random generator.

I'll be happy to consider all feedback.