Textual Development in PyCharm/IDEA products

[ciaransweet]

Hey folks,

Have a few questions around how people are developing Textual Apps in products like PyCharm.

If I use the example: https://github.com/Textualize/textual#creating-widgets and run my app via iTerm2:

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I can easily see the on_enter and on_exit behaviour.

However if I try and run this in the PyCharm Terminal:

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You can see that the hover functionality isn't quite correct. I have to physically click and drag the cursor for it to register these events.

Question 1 - Is there something obvious to change in PyCharm/IDEA IDEs to change this behaviour? Are other people experiencing this?

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Also, similar situation, it'd be nice to be able to Run the application, with the usual Run <> options in PyCharm.

I get even stranger output on that view:

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I fully appreciate that this is likely an issue with this being the python interpreter view so likely not supported. But it would be nice 😛

Question 2 - If people are actively dev-ing in PyCharm/IDEA IDEs, is there a nice run configuration I can set so that the Run option gives me a nice textual experience? 😄

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Appreciate any input folks have! ❤️

[willmcgugan]

Not a PyCharm user, but from the amount of issues we get, PyCharm doesn't emulate a terminal all that well. I think there was some checkbox in settings that enables terminal emulation which may improve things.

VSCode has a solid terminal emulator, but I tend to switch to iTerm to test Textual code.

[ciaransweet]

I figured this might be the case 🤣

I ask because I'm looking at writing tools for Java Devs (😱) and switching out of the IDE would be a pain (I assume).

Still. Not end of the world!

[illeatmyhat]

I had a similar issue. In PyCharm's Run/Debug Configurations, there's a "Emulate terminal in output console" button that you can press and it works better.
I've not done an exhaustive test of features but at least the centered button tutorial works.