channel_xpadding and navigation_show added to data.

app.toml example now includes channel padding and nav show

[channel] xpadding and [navigation] show added to app.toml

delay parameter updates if gui needed launching

configs/app.toml

@@ -13,9 +13,13 @@ extends_horizontal=true
 [channel]
 width = 80
 height = 130
+xpadding = 2
 # size of a single mouse wheel scroll step
 [mwscroll_step]
 size = 3
 # default submix bus
 [submixes]
 default = 0
+# show the navigation frame?
+[navigation]
+show = true

vmcompact/app.py

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import logging
 import tkinter as tk
 from functools import cached_property
 from pathlib import Path
@@ -11,6 +12,8 @@ from .errors import VMCompactError
 from .menu import Menus
 from .subject import Subject
 
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
 
 class App(tk.Tk):
     """App mainframe"""
@@ -34,9 +37,10 @@ class App(tk.Tk):
 
     def __init__(self, vmr):
         super().__init__()
-
+        self.logger = logger.getChild(self.__class__.__name__)
         self._vmr = vmr
         self._vmr.event.add(["pdirty", "ldirty"])
+        self.after(12000 if not self._vmr.gui.initial_state else 1, self.start_updates)
         self._vmr.init_thread()
         icon_path = Path(__file__).parent.resolve() / "img" / "cat.ico"
         if icon_path.is_file():
@@ -54,6 +58,10 @@ class App(tk.Tk):
         self.drag_id = ""
         self.bind("<Configure>", self.dragging)
 
+    def start_updates(self):
+        self.logger.debug("updates started")
+        _base_values.run_update = True
+
     def __str__(self):
         return f"{type(self).__name__}App"
 

vmcompact/configurations.py

@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ _defaults = {
     "channel": {
         "width": 80,
         "height": 130,
+        "xpadding": 3,
     },
     "mwscroll_step": {
         "size": 3,
@@ -55,6 +56,7 @@ _defaults = {
     "submixes": {
         "default": 0,
     },
+    "navigation": {"show": True},
 }
 
 if "app" in configuration:

vmcompact/data.py

@@ -32,10 +32,15 @@ class Configurations(metaclass=SingletonMeta):
     # bus assigned as current submix
     submixes: int = configuration["submixes"]["default"]
 
-    # width of a single labelframe
+    # width of a single channel labelframe
-    level_width: int = configuration["channel"]["width"]
+    channel_width: int = configuration["channel"]["width"]
-    # height of a single labelframe
+    # height of a single channel labelframe
-    level_height: int = configuration["channel"]["height"]
+    channel_height: int = configuration["channel"]["height"]
+    # xpadding for a single channel labelframe
+    channel_xpadding: int = configuration["channel"]["xpadding"]
+
+    # do we grid the navigation frame?
+    navigation_show: bool = configuration["navigation"]["show"]
 
     @property
     def config(self):
@@ -46,7 +51,7 @@ class Configurations(metaclass=SingletonMeta):
 @dataclass
 class BaseValues(metaclass=SingletonMeta):
     # pause updates after releasing scale
-    run_update: bool = True
+    run_update: bool = False
     # are we dragging main window with mouse 1
     dragging: bool = False
     # a vban connection established