Create Gtkmm project skeleton

gen_gtkmm is tool for creating Gtkmm project skeleton.

Developed in python code.

The README is used to introduce the tool and provide instructions on how to install the tool, any machine dependencies it may have and any other information that should be provided before the tool is installed.

Table of Contents

• 🚀 Installation
  • Install using pip
  • Install using build
  • Install using py setup
  • Install using docker
• 📦 Dependencies
• 📁 Tool structure
  • ✨ Features
• 📊 Code coverage
• 🛠 Usage
• 📚 Docs
• 👥 Contributing
• 📄 Copyright and licence

🚀 Installation

Used next development environment

Currently there are four ways to install package

• Install process based on using pip mechanism
• Install process based on build mechanism
• Install process based on setup.py mechanism
• Install process based on docker mechanism

Install using pip

gen_gtkmm is located at pypi.org.

You can install by using pip

# python3
pip3 install gen_gtkmm

Install using build

Navigate to release page download and extract release archive.

To install gen_gtkmm type the following

tar xvzf gen_gtkmm-x.y.z.tar.gz
cd gen_gtkmm-x.y.z/
# python3
wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
python3 get-pip.py 
# python3
python3 get-pip.py
python3 -m pip install --upgrade setuptools
python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip
python3 -m pip install --upgrade build
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
python3 -m build --no-isolation --wheel
pip3 install ./dist/gen_gtkmm-*-py3-none-any.whl
rm -f get-pip.py

Install using py setup

Navigate to release page download and extract release archive.

To install gen_gtkmm locate and run setup.py with arguments

tar xvzf gen_gtkmm-x.y.z.tar.gz
cd gen_gtkmm-x.y.z
# python3
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
python3 setup.py install_lib
python3 setup.py install_egg_info

Install using docker

You can use Dockerfile to create image/container.

📦 Dependencies

gen_gtkmm requires next modules and libraries

• ats-utilities - Python App/Tool/Script Utilities

📁 Tool structure

gen_gtkmm is based on OOP.

Tool structure

Click to expand framework structure

    gen_gtkmm/
         ├── core/
         │   ├── __init__.py
         │   ├── model/
         │   │   ├── __init__.py
         │   │   └── project_setup.py
         │   └── service/
         │       ├── engine.py
         │       ├── __init__.py
         │       ├── iservice.py
         │       └── isubprocessor.py
         ├── engine.py
         ├── infrastructure/
         │   ├── cli/
         │   │   ├── engine.py
         │   │   ├── icli.py
         │   │   ├── __init__.py
         │   │   └── setup/
         │   │       ├── bundle.py
         │   │       ├── dep_validator.py
         │   │       ├── dependencies.py
         │   │       ├── factory.py
         │   │       ├── __init__.py
         │   │       ├── keys.py
         │   │       ├── opt_validator.py
         │   │       ├── options.py
         │   │       ├── registry.py
         │   │       └── validator.py
         │   ├── command/
         │   │   ├── command.py
         │   │   ├── gen_gtkmm_command_definition.py
         │   │   ├── gen_gtkmm_command_executor.py
         │   │   ├── icommand_definition.py
         │   │   ├── icommand_executor.py
         │   │   └── __init__.py
         │   ├── config/
         │   │   ├── gen_gtkmm.cfg
         │   │   ├── gen_gtkmm.logo
         │   │   ├── scheme.json
         │   │   └── templates.tgz
         │   └── subprocessor.py
         ├── __init__.py
         ├── py.typed
         └── setup/
             ├── bundle.py
             ├── dep_validator.py
             ├── dependencies.py
             ├── factory.py
             ├── __init__.py
             ├── keys.py
             ├── opt_validator.py
             ├── options.py
             ├── registry.py
             └── validator.py

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✨ Features

• Automatically scaffolds Gtkmm projects with build/make files.
• Provides a modular and extensible architecture based on OOP and SOLID principles.
• Includes command line interface (CLI) support via a command/executor structure.
• Robust validation of project bundles, dependencies, and options.
• Comes with configurable templates and JSON schema definitions.
• High code quality with full type checking and 100% unit test coverage.

📊 Code coverage

Click to expand code coverage

Name	Stmts	Miss	Cover
gen_gtkmm/__init__.py	8	0	100%
gen_gtkmm/core/__init__.py	9	0	100%
gen_gtkmm/core/model/__init__.py	9	0	100%
gen_gtkmm/core/model/project_setup.py	14	0	100%
gen_gtkmm/core/service/__init__.py	9	0	100%
gen_gtkmm/core/service/engine.py	27	0	100%
gen_gtkmm/core/service/iservice.py	14	0	100%
gen_gtkmm/core/service/isubprocessor.py	14	0	100%
gen_gtkmm/engine.py	57	0	100%
gen_gtkmm/infrastructure/cli/__init__.py	9	0	100%
gen_gtkmm/infrastructure/cli/engine.py	39	0	100%
gen_gtkmm/infrastructure/cli/icli.py	14	0	100%
gen_gtkmm/infrastructure/cli/setup/__init__.py	9	0	100%
gen_gtkmm/infrastructure/cli/setup/bundle.py	22	0	100%
gen_gtkmm/infrastructure/cli/setup/dep_validator.py	36	0	100%
gen_gtkmm/infrastructure/cli/setup/dependencies.py	18	0	100%
gen_gtkmm/infrastructure/cli/setup/factory.py	35	0	100%
gen_gtkmm/infrastructure/cli/setup/keys.py	26	0	100%
gen_gtkmm/infrastructure/cli/setup/opt_validator.py	36	0	100%
gen_gtkmm/infrastructure/cli/setup/options.py	15	0	100%
gen_gtkmm/infrastructure/cli/setup/registry.py	24	0	100%
gen_gtkmm/infrastructure/cli/setup/validator.py	43	0	100%
gen_gtkmm/infrastructure/command/__init__.py	9	0	100%
gen_gtkmm/infrastructure/command/command.py	16	0	100%
gen_gtkmm/infrastructure/command/gen_gtkmm_command_definition.py	24	0	100%
gen_gtkmm/infrastructure/command/gen_gtkmm_command_executor.py	21	0	100%
gen_gtkmm/infrastructure/command/icommand_definition.py	14	0	100%
gen_gtkmm/infrastructure/command/icommand_executor.py	13	0	100%
gen_gtkmm/infrastructure/subprocessor.py	55	0	100%
gen_gtkmm/setup/__init__.py	9	0	100%
gen_gtkmm/setup/bundle.py	23	0	100%
gen_gtkmm/setup/dep_validator.py	36	0	100%
gen_gtkmm/setup/dependencies.py	19	0	100%
gen_gtkmm/setup/factory.py	48	0	100%
gen_gtkmm/setup/keys.py	27	0	100%
gen_gtkmm/setup/opt_validator.py	34	0	100%
gen_gtkmm/setup/options.py	12	0	100%
gen_gtkmm/setup/registry.py	32	0	100%
gen_gtkmm/setup/validator.py	48	0	100%
Total	927	0	100%

🛠 Usage

Install package

pip3 install gen_gtkmm

Prepare main entry point by downloading main.py or create your own.

wget -O main.py https://raw.githubusercontent.com/electux/gen_gtkmm/main/main.py

Running tool for creating new Gtkmm project skeleton

python3 main.py create --name mytool --type gtkmm4 --output ./demo/

📚 Docs

More documentation and info at

• gen_gtkmm.readthedocs.io
• www.python.org

👥 Contributing

Contributing to gen_gtkmm

📄 Copyright and licence

Copyright (C) 2025 - 2026 by electux.github.io/gen_gtkmm

gen_gtkmm is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Python itself, either Python version 3.x or, at your option, any later version of Python 3 you may have available.

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