meerk40t 0.9.3001__py2.py3-none-any.whl → 0.9.7010__py2.py3-none-any.whl

meerk40t/gui/plugin.py

@@ -1,328 +1,494 @@
-def plugin(kernel, lifecycle):
-    _ = kernel.translation
-    kernel_root = kernel.root
-
-    if lifecycle == "precli":
-        kernel._hard_gui = True
-        kernel._gui = True
-
-    elif lifecycle == "cli":
-        kernel._gui = not kernel.args.no_gui
-        kernel._hard_gui = not kernel.args.gui_suppress
-        try:
-            import wx
-        except ImportError:
-            kernel._gui = False
-
-            @kernel.console_command("gui", help=_("starts the gui"))
-            def gui_fail(channel=None, **kwargs):
-                channel(
-                    "wxPython is not installed. No graphical user interface possible."
-                )
-
-            return
-        if kernel._hard_gui:
-            kernel.set_feature("wx")
-
-            @kernel.console_command("gui", help=_("starts the gui"))
-            def gui_start(**kwargs):
-                kernel._gui = True  # Set gui to initialize.
-
-        else:
-            kernel._gui = False
-    if lifecycle == "invalidate":
-        if not kernel._hard_gui:
-            return True
-        try:
-            import wx
-        except ImportError:
-            print("wxMeerK40t plugin could not load because wxPython is not installed.")
-            return True
-        # Let's check whether we have an incompatible version of wxpython and python.
-        # Python 3.10 onwards no longer supports automatic casts of decimals to ints:
-        # Builtin and extension functions that take integer arguments no longer accept
-        # Decimals, Fractions and other objects that can be converted to integers only
-        # with a loss (e.g. that have the __int__() method but do not have the __index__() method).
-        # wxpython up to 4.1.1 exposes this issue
-        try:
-            if wx.VERSION[:2] <= (4, 1):
-                testcase = wx.Size(0.5, 1)
-        except TypeError:
-            print(
-                """The version of wxPython you are running is incompatible with your current Python version.
-At the time of writing this is especially true for any Python version >= 3.10
-and a wxpython version <= 4.1.1."""
-            )
-            return True
-        return False
-    if not kernel.has_feature("wx"):
-        return
-    if lifecycle == "preregister":
-        from meerk40t.gui.fonts import wxfont_to_svg
-        from meerk40t.gui.laserrender import LaserRender
-        from meerk40t.gui.wxmeerk40t import wxMeerK40t
-
-        kernel.register("module/wxMeerK40t", wxMeerK40t)
-        kernel_root.open("module/wxMeerK40t")
-
-        # Registers the render-op make_raster. This is used to do cut planning.
-        renderer = LaserRender(kernel_root)
-        kernel_root.register("render-op/make_raster", renderer.make_raster)
-        kernel_root.register("font/wx_to_svg", wxfont_to_svg)
-    if lifecycle == "register":
-        from meerk40t.gui.guicolors import GuiColors
-
-        kernel.add_service("colors", GuiColors(kernel))
-
-        from meerk40t.gui.scene.scene import Scene
-
-        kernel.register("module/Scene", Scene)
-
-        from meerk40t.gui.themes import Themes
-
-        kernel.add_service("themes", Themes(kernel))
-
-    elif lifecycle == "boot":
-        kernel_root = kernel.root
-        choices = [
-            {
-                "attr": "units_name",
-                "object": kernel_root,
-                "default": "mm",
-                "type": str,
-            },
-        ]
-        kernel.register_choices("units", choices)
-    elif lifecycle == "postboot":
-        choices = [
-            {
-                "attr": "windows_save",
-                "object": kernel.root,
-                "default": True,
-                "type": bool,
-                "label": _("Save Window Positions"),
-                "tip": _("Open Windows at the same place they were last closed"),
-                "page": "Gui",
-                "section": "General",
-            },
-            {
-                "attr": "auto_spooler",
-                "object": kernel.root,
-                "default": True,
-                "type": bool,
-                "label": _("Launch Spooler on Job Start"),
-                "tip": _(
-                    "Open the Spooler window automatically when you Execute a Job"
-                ),
-                "page": "Laser",
-                "section": "General",
-            },
-            {
-                "attr": "mouse_wheel_pan",
-                "object": kernel.root,
-                "default": False,
-                "type": bool,
-                "label": _("MouseWheel Pan"),
-                "tip": "\n".join(
-                    (
-                        _("Unset: MouseWheel=Zoom. Shift+MouseWheel=Horizontal pan."),
-                        _(
-                            "Set: MouseWheel=Vertical pan. Ctrl+MouseWheel=Zoom. Shift+MouseWheel=Horizontal pan."
-                        ),
-                    )
-                ),
-                "page": "Gui",
-                "section": "General",
-            },
-            {
-                "attr": "mouse_pan_invert",
-                "object": kernel.root,
-                "default": False,
-                "type": bool,
-                "label": _("Invert MouseWheel Pan"),
-                "tip": _(
-                    "Reverses the direction of the MouseWheel for horizontal & vertical pan"
-                ),
-                "page": "Gui",
-                "section": "General",
-            },
-            {
-                "attr": "mouse_zoom_invert",
-                "object": kernel.root,
-                "default": False,
-                "type": bool,
-                "label": _("Invert MouseWheel Zoom"),
-                "tip": _("Reverses the direction of the MouseWheel for zoom"),
-                "page": "Gui",
-                "section": "General",
-            },
-            {
-                "attr": "disable_tool_tips",
-                "object": kernel.root,
-                "default": False,
-                "type": bool,
-                "label": _("Disable ToolTips"),
-                "tip": "\n".join(
-                    (
-                        _(
-                            "If you do not want to see tooltips like this one, check this box."
-                        ),
-                        _("Particularly useful if you have a touch screen."),
-                        _(
-                            "Note: You will need to restart MeerK40t for any change to take effect."
-                        ),
-                    )
-                ),
-                "page": "Gui",
-                "section": "General",
-                "signals": "restart",
-            },
-            {
-                "attr": "disable_tree_tool_tips",
-                "object": kernel.root,
-                "default": False,
-                "type": bool,
-                "label": _("Disable tooltips over tree"),
-                "tip": _(
-                    "You can suppress the tooltips over operations and elements in the tree"
-                ),
-                "page": "Gui",
-                "section": "General",
-            },
-        ]
-        kernel.register_choices("preferences", choices)
-
-    elif lifecycle == "mainloop":
-        # Replace the default kernel data prompt for a wx Popup.
-        def prompt_popup(data_type, prompt):
-            import wx
-
-            with wx.TextEntryDialog(
-                None, prompt, _("Information Required:"), ""
-            ) as dlg:
-                if dlg.ShowModal() == wx.ID_OK:
-                    value = dlg.GetValue()
-                else:
-                    return None
-            try:
-                return data_type(value)
-            except ValueError:
-                return None
-
-        kernel.prompt = prompt_popup
-
-        def yesno_popup(prompt, option_yes=None, option_no=None, caption=None):
-            """
-            @param prompt: question asked of the user.
-            @param option_yes: input to be interpreted as yes (first letter is okay too).
-            @param option_no: input to be interpreted as no (first letter is okay too).
-            @param caption: caption for popup
-            """
-            import wx
-
-            if option_yes is None:
-                option_yes = _("Yes")
-            if option_no is None:
-                option_no = _("No")
-            if caption is None:
-                caption = _("Question")
-            dlg = wx.MessageDialog(
-                None,
-                message=prompt,
-                caption=caption,
-                style=wx.YES_NO | wx.ICON_QUESTION,
-            )
-            if dlg.SetYesNoLabels(option_yes, option_no):
-                dlg.SetMessage(prompt)
-            else:
-                dlg.SetMessage(
-                    prompt
-                    + "\n"
-                    + _("(Yes={yes}, No={no})").format(yes=option_yes, no=option_no)
-                )
-
-            response = dlg.ShowModal()
-            dlg.Destroy()
-            return bool(response == wx.ID_YES)
-
-        kernel.yesno = yesno_popup
-
-        from meerk40t.gui.busy import BusyInfo
-
-        kernel.busyinfo = BusyInfo()
-
-        @kernel.console_argument("message")
-        @kernel.console_command("notify", hidden=True)
-        def notification_message(message=None, **kwargs):
-            if message is None:
-                message = _("Something requires your attention")
-            from wx.adv import NotificationMessage
-
-            msg = NotificationMessage(title="MeerK40t", message=message)
-            msg.Show()
-
-        @kernel.console_argument(
-            "message", help=_("Message to display, optional"), default=""
-        )
-        @kernel.console_command("interrupt", hidden=True)
-        def interrupt(message="", **kwargs):
-            """
-            Interrupt interrupts but does so in the gui thread. This is so that some
-            OSes like linux can be properly stopped in the gui. The gui-thread will
-            often be required. But, this will typically be called in the spooler thread.
-
-            If called in the main thread, we call the dialog ourselves to avoid livelock.
-
-            @param message:
-            @param kwargs:
-            @return:
-            """
-            if not message:
-                message = _("Spooling Interrupted.")
-
-            import threading
-
-            import wx
-
-            lock = threading.Lock()
-            lock.acquire(True)
-
-            def message_dialog(*args):
-                dlg = wx.MessageDialog(
-                    None,
-                    message + "\n\n" + _("Press OK to Continue."),
-                    _("Interrupt"),
-                    wx.OK,
-                )
-                dlg.ShowModal()
-                dlg.Destroy()
-                lock.release()
-
-            if wx.IsMainThread():
-                # If we're in main thread we much call here or livelock.
-                message_dialog()
-            else:
-                wx.CallAfter(message_dialog, None)
-            lock.acquire(True)
-
-        if kernel._gui:
-            meerk40tgui = kernel_root.open("module/wxMeerK40t")
-            if kernel.args.simpleui:
-                kernel.console("window open SimpleUI\n")
-                meerk40tgui.MainLoop()
-                return
-
-            kernel.console("window open MeerK40t\n")
-            for window in kernel.section_startswith("window/"):
-                wsplit = window.split(":")
-                window_name = wsplit[0]
-                window_index = wsplit[-1] if len(wsplit) > 1 else None
-                if kernel.read_persistent(bool, window, "open_on_start", False):
-                    if window_index is not None:
-                        kernel.console(
-                            f"window open -m {window_index} {window_name[7:]} {window_index}\n"
-                        )
-                    else:
-                        kernel.console(f"window open {window_name[7:]}\n")
-
-            meerk40tgui.MainLoop()
+import platform
+
+def plugin(kernel, lifecycle):
+    _ = kernel.translation
+    kernel_root = kernel.root
+
+    if lifecycle == "precli":
+        kernel._hard_gui = True
+        kernel._gui = True
+
+    elif lifecycle == "cli":
+        kernel._gui = not kernel.args.no_gui
+        kernel._hard_gui = not kernel.args.gui_suppress
+        try:
+            import wx
+        except ImportError:
+            kernel._gui = False
+
+            @kernel.console_command("gui", help=_("starts the gui"))
+            def gui_fail(channel=None, **kwargs):
+                channel(
+                    "wxPython is not installed. No graphical user interface possible."
+                )
+
+            return
+        if kernel._hard_gui:
+            kernel.set_feature("wx")
+
+            @kernel.console_command("gui", help=_("starts the gui"))
+            def gui_start(**kwargs):
+                kernel._gui = True  # Set gui to initialize.
+
+        else:
+            kernel._gui = False
+    if lifecycle == "invalidate":
+        if not kernel._hard_gui:
+            return True
+        try:
+            import wx
+        except ImportError:
+            print("wxMeerK40t plugin could not load because wxPython is not installed.")
+            return True
+        # Let's check whether we have an incompatible version of wxpython and python.
+        # Python 3.10 onwards no longer supports automatic casts of decimals to ints:
+        # Builtin and extension functions that take integer arguments no longer accept
+        # Decimals, Fractions and other objects that can be converted to integers only
+        # with a loss (e.g. that have the __int__() method but do not have the __index__() method).
+        # wxpython up to 4.1.1 exposes this issue
+        try:
+            if wx.VERSION[:2] <= (4, 1):
+                testcase = wx.Size(0.5, 1)
+        except TypeError:
+            print(
+                """The version of wxPython you are running is incompatible with your current Python version.
+At the time of writing this is especially true for any Python version >= 3.10
+and a wxpython version <= 4.1.1."""
+            )
+            return True
+        return False
+    if not kernel.has_feature("wx"):
+        return
+    if lifecycle == "preregister":
+        # lc = kernel_root.setting(str, "i18n", "en")
+        # kernel.set_language(lc)
+        # from ..kernel import _
+        # import wx
+        # wx.GetTranslation = _
+
+        from meerk40t.gui.fonts import wxfont_to_svg
+        from meerk40t.gui.laserrender import LaserRender
+        from meerk40t.gui.wxmeerk40t import wxMeerK40t
+
+        kernel.register("module/wxMeerK40t", wxMeerK40t)
+        kernel_root.open("module/wxMeerK40t")
+
+        # Registers the render-op make_raster. This is used to do cut planning.
+        renderer = LaserRender(kernel_root)
+        kernel_root.register("render-op/make_raster", renderer.make_raster)
+        kernel_root.register("font/wx_to_svg", wxfont_to_svg)
+    if lifecycle == "register":
+        from meerk40t.gui.themes import Themes
+        kernel.add_service("themes", Themes(kernel))
+
+        from meerk40t.gui.guicolors import GuiColors
+        kernel.add_service("colors", GuiColors(kernel))
+
+        from meerk40t.gui.scene.scene import Scene
+        kernel.register("module/Scene", Scene)
+
+
+    elif lifecycle == "boot":
+        kernel_root = kernel.root
+        choices = [
+            {
+                "attr": "units_name",
+                "object": kernel_root,
+                "default": "mm",
+                "type": str,
+            },
+        ]
+        kernel.register_choices("units", choices)
+    elif lifecycle == "postboot":
+        choices = [
+            {
+                "attr": "supress_non_visible",
+                "object": kernel.root,
+                "default": True,
+                "type": bool,
+                "label": _("Optimize element display"),
+                "tip": _("Suppresses the drawing of non-visible elements (disable only if you face display issues)"),
+                "page": "Gui",
+                "section": "General",
+            },
+            {
+                "attr": "windows_save",
+                "object": kernel.root,
+                "default": True,
+                "type": bool,
+                "label": _("Save Window Positions"),
+                "tip": _("Open Windows at the same place they were last closed"),
+                "page": "Gui",
+                "section": "General",
+            },
+            {
+                "attr": "auto_spooler",
+                "object": kernel.root,
+                "default": True,
+                "type": bool,
+                "label": _("Launch Spooler on Job Start"),
+                "tip": _(
+                    "Open the Spooler window automatically when you Execute a Job"
+                ),
+                "page": "Laser",
+                "section": "General",
+            },
+            {
+                "attr": "mouse_wheel_pan",
+                "object": kernel.root,
+                "default": False,
+                "type": bool,
+                "label": _("MouseWheel Pan"),
+                "tip": "\n".join(
+                    (
+                        _("Unset: MouseWheel=Zoom. Shift+MouseWheel=Horizontal pan."),
+                        _(
+                            "Set: MouseWheel=Vertical pan. Ctrl+MouseWheel=Zoom. Shift+MouseWheel=Horizontal pan."
+                        ),
+                    )
+                ),
+                "page": "Gui",
+                "section": "General",
+            },
+            {
+                "attr": "mouse_pan_invert",
+                "object": kernel.root,
+                "default": False,
+                "type": bool,
+                "label": _("Invert MouseWheel Pan"),
+                "tip": _(
+                    "Reverses the direction of the MouseWheel for horizontal & vertical pan"
+                ),
+                "page": "Gui",
+                "section": "General",
+            },
+            {
+                "attr": "mouse_zoom_invert",
+                "object": kernel.root,
+                "default": False,
+                "type": bool,
+                "label": _("Invert MouseWheel Zoom"),
+                "tip": _("Reverses the direction of the MouseWheel for zoom"),
+                "page": "Gui",
+                "section": "General",
+            },
+            {
+                "attr": "disable_tool_tips",
+                "object": kernel.root,
+                "default": False,
+                "type": bool,
+                "label": _("Disable ToolTips"),
+                "tip": "\n".join(
+                    (
+                        _(
+                            "If you do not want to see tooltips like this one, check this box."
+                        ),
+                        _("Particularly useful if you have a touch screen."),
+                        _(
+                            "Note: You will need to restart MeerK40t for any change to take effect."
+                        ),
+                    )
+                ),
+                "page": "Gui",
+                "section": "Tooltips",
+                "signals": "restart",
+            },
+            {
+                "attr": "disable_tree_tool_tips",
+                "object": kernel.root,
+                "default": False,
+                "type": bool,
+                "label": _("Disable tooltips over tree"),
+                "tip": _(
+                    "You can suppress the tooltips over operations and elements in the tree"
+                ),
+                "page": "Gui",
+                "section": "Tooltips",
+            },
+            {
+                "attr": "tooltip_delay",
+                "object": kernel.root,
+                "default": 100,
+                "type": int,
+                "style": "flat",
+                "label": _("ToolTip delay"),
+                "trailer": "ms",
+                "tip": _("How long do you need to hover over a control before the tooltip appears"),
+                "page": "Gui",
+                "section": "Tooltips",
+                "signals": "restart",
+            },
+            {
+                "attr": "tooltip_autopop",
+                "object": kernel.root,
+                "default": 10000,
+                "type": int,
+                "style": "flat",
+                "label": _("ToolTip duration"),
+                "trailer": "ms",
+                "tip": _("How long should the tooltip stay before it disappears"),
+                "page": "Gui",
+                "section": "Tooltips",
+                "signals": "restart",
+            },
+            {
+                "attr": "concern_level",
+                "object": kernel.root,
+                "default": 0,
+                "type": int,
+                "style": "option",
+                "display": (
+                    _("Low + Normal + Critical"),
+                    _("Normal + Critical"),
+                    _("Critical"),
+                    _("Ignore all"),
+                ),
+                "choices": (1, 2, 3, 4),
+                "label": _("Level"),
+                "tip": (
+                    _("Which warning severity level do you want to recognize") + "\n" +
+                    _("Critical: might damage your laser (e.g. laserhead bumping into rail)") + "\n" +
+                    _("Normal: might ruin your burn (e.g. unassigned=unburnt elements)") + "\n" +
+                    _("Low: I hope you know what your doing (e.g. disabled operations)")
+                ),
+                "page": "Gui",
+                "section": "Warning-Indicator",
+                "signals": ("icons", "warn_state_update"),
+            },
+        ]
+        kernel.register_choices("preferences", choices)
+
+    elif lifecycle == "mainloop":
+        # Replace the default kernel data prompt for a wx Popup.
+        def prompt_popup(data_type, prompt):
+            import wx
+
+            with wx.TextEntryDialog(
+                None, prompt, _("Information Required:"), ""
+            ) as dlg:
+                if dlg.ShowModal() == wx.ID_OK:
+                    value = dlg.GetValue()
+                else:
+                    return None
+            try:
+                return data_type(value)
+            except ValueError:
+                return None
+
+        kernel.prompt = prompt_popup
+
+        def yesno_popup(prompt, option_yes=None, option_no=None, caption=None):
+            """
+            @param prompt: question asked of the user.
+            @param option_yes: input to be interpreted as yes (first letter is okay too).
+            @param option_no: input to be interpreted as no (first letter is okay too).
+            @param caption: caption for popup
+            """
+            import wx
+
+            if option_yes is None:
+                option_yes = _("Yes")
+            if option_no is None:
+                option_no = _("No")
+            if caption is None:
+                caption = _("Question")
+            if option_yes == option_no:
+                dlg = wx.MessageDialog(
+                    None,
+                    message=prompt,
+                    caption=caption,
+                    style=wx.OK | wx.ICON_INFORMATION,
+                )
+                if dlg.SetOKLabel(option_yes):
+                    dlg.SetMessage(prompt)
+                else:
+                    dlg.SetMessage(
+                        prompt + "\n" + _("(Yes={yes})").format(yes=option_yes)
+                    )
+            else:
+                dlg = wx.MessageDialog(
+                    None,
+                    message=prompt,
+                    caption=caption,
+                    style=wx.YES_NO | wx.ICON_QUESTION,
+                )
+                if dlg.SetYesNoLabels(option_yes, option_no):
+                    dlg.SetMessage(prompt)
+                else:
+                    dlg.SetMessage(
+                        prompt
+                        + "\n"
+                        + _("(Yes={yes}, No={no})").format(yes=option_yes, no=option_no)
+                    )
+
+            response = dlg.ShowModal()
+            dlg.Destroy()
+            return bool(response in (wx.ID_YES, wx.ID_OK))
+
+        kernel.yesno = yesno_popup
+
+        from meerk40t.gui.busy import BusyInfo
+
+        kargs = {}
+        if kernel.themes.dark:
+            kargs["bgcolor"] = kernel.themes.get("win_bg")
+            kargs["fgcolor"] = kernel.themes.get("win_fg")
+        kernel.busyinfo = BusyInfo(**kargs)
+
+        @kernel.console_argument("message")
+        @kernel.console_command("notify", hidden=True)
+        def notification_message(message=None, **kwargs):
+            if message is None:
+                message = _("Something requires your attention")
+            from wx.adv import NotificationMessage
+
+            msg = NotificationMessage(title="MeerK40t", message=message)
+            msg.Show()
+
+        @kernel.console_argument(
+            "message", help=_("Message to display, optional"), default=""
+        )
+        @kernel.console_command("interrupt", hidden=True)
+        def interrupt(message="", **kwargs):
+            """
+            Interrupt interrupts but does so in the gui thread. This is so that some
+            OSes like linux can be properly stopped in the gui. The gui-thread will
+            often be required. But, this will typically be called in the spooler thread.
+
+            If called in the main thread, we call the dialog ourselves to avoid livelock.
+
+            @param message:
+            @param kwargs:
+            @return:
+            """
+            if not message:
+                message = _("Spooling Interrupted.")
+
+            import threading
+
+            import wx
+
+            lock = threading.Lock()
+            lock.acquire(True)
+
+            def message_dialog(*args):
+                dlg = wx.MessageDialog(
+                    None,
+                    message + "\n\n" + _("Press OK to Continue."),
+                    _("Interrupt"),
+                    wx.OK,
+                )
+                dlg.ShowModal()
+                dlg.Destroy()
+                lock.release()
+
+            if wx.IsMainThread():
+                # If we're in main thread we much call here or livelock.
+                message_dialog()
+            else:
+                wx.CallAfter(message_dialog, None)
+            lock.acquire(True)
+
+        if kernel._gui:
+
+            def detect_windows_dpi(context):
+                """Get Windows DPI scaling factor and set DPI awareness."""
+                scale = 100
+                if not (platform.system() == "Windows" and context.setting(bool, "high_dpi", True)):
+                    return scale
+                try:
+                    # https://discuss.wxpython.org/t/support-for-high-dpi-on-windows-10/32925
+                    from ctypes import OleDLL
+                    shcore = OleDLL("shcore")
+                    scale = shcore.GetScaleFactorForDevice(0)
+                    shcore.SetProcessDpiAwareness(1)
+                except (AttributeError, ImportError, OSError):
+                    # This is the wrong windows version, or we geta
+                    pass
+
+                return scale
+
+            def detect_bitmap_scaling(icons):
+                import wx
+                """
+                wxPython has unfortunately a bug of how it will deal with upscaling.
+                A user can set a scale in the windows display settings. The
+                moment that scale is set beyond 170% then out of a sudden wxpython will scale
+                up all images / bitmaps you hand it over. For 250% for instance
+                it will upscale all images by a factor of 3! If you need a specific bitmap
+                size then we have to artificially reduce the resolution by a third
+                to compensate this. This will make buttons - despite the high resolution -
+                look more pixely!
+                """
+                bmap = icons.icons8_pause.GetBitmap(resize=50)
+                test_frame = wx.Frame(None, wx.ID_ANY)
+                test_control = wx.StaticBitmap(test_frame, wx.ID_ANY)
+                src_size = bmap.Size
+                test_control.SetBitmap(bmap)
+                actual_size = test_control.Size
+                test_frame.Destroy()
+
+                has_scaling_issue = abs(src_size[0] - actual_size[0]) > 2
+                correction = src_size[0] / actual_size[0] if has_scaling_issue else 1.0
+                return has_scaling_issue, correction
+
+            import meerk40t.gui.icons as icons
+            context = kernel.root
+            context.user_scale = detect_windows_dpi(context)
+            context.faulty_bitmap_scaling, context.bitmap_correction_scale = detect_bitmap_scaling(icons)
+
+            flag = kernel.themes.dark
+            icons.DARKMODE = flag
+            flag = context.faulty_bitmap_scaling
+            sizeme = 150 if flag else 400
+            image = icons.icon_meerk40t.GetBitmap(resize=sizeme)
+            from ..main import APPLICATION_VERSION
+            if platform.system() != "Linux":
+                kernel.busyinfo.start(msg=_("Start MeerK40t|V. {version}".format(version=APPLICATION_VERSION)), image=image)
+                kernel.busyinfo.change(msg=_("Loading main module"), keep=1)
+            meerk40tgui = kernel_root.open("module/wxMeerK40t")
+
+            @kernel.console_command(
+                ("quit", "shutdown", "exit"), help=_("shuts down the gui and exits")
+            )
+            def shutdown(**kwargs):
+                try:
+                    meerk40tgui.TopWindow.Close()
+                except AttributeError:
+                    pass
+
+            if kernel.args.simpleui:
+                kernel.busyinfo.end()
+                kernel.console("window open SimpleUI\n")
+                meerk40tgui.MainLoop()
+                return
+
+            kernel.console("window open MeerK40t\n")
+            windows_to_ignore = ("HersheyFontSelector", "About", "Properties")
+            if kernel.busyinfo.shown:
+                kernel.busyinfo.change(msg=_("Loading windows"), keep=1)
+            for window in kernel.section_startswith("window/"):
+                wsplit = window.split(":")
+                window_name = wsplit[0]
+                window_index = wsplit[-1] if len(wsplit) > 1 else None
+                if kernel.read_persistent(bool, window, "open_on_start", False):
+                    win_name = window_name[7:]
+                    if win_name in windows_to_ignore:
+                        continue
+                    if window_index is not None:
+                        kernel.console(
+                            f"window open -m {window_index} {win_name} {window_index}\n"
+                        )
+                    else:
+                        kernel.console(f"window open {win_name}\n")
+
+            if kernel.busyinfo.shown:
+                kernel.busyinfo.change(msg=_("Finishing GUI"), keep=1)
+            kernel.signal("started", "/", "")
+            try:
+                meerk40tgui.MainLoop()
+            except AssertionError as e:
+                # Under Darwin we have every now and then at program end a
+                # wx._core.wxAssertionError: ... in DoScreenToClient(): TopLevel Window missing
+                print (f"MeerK40t encountered an error at shutdown: {e}")
+                pass