Useful Helpers

Photons comes with some helpful code to make it easier for you to make your scripts.

• Working with Colour
  • ColourParser
    • ColourParser.hsbk()
    • ColourParser.msg()
  • Effects
    • Effects.pulse()
    • Effects.sine()
    • Effects.half_sine()
    • Effects.triangle()
    • Effects.saw()
    • Effects.breathe()
  • make_hsbk()
  • make_hsbks()
• Working with Tile orientation
  • Orientation
    • Orientation.FaceDown
    • Orientation.FaceUp
    • Orientation.RightSideUp
    • Orientation.RotatedLeft
    • Orientation.RotatedRight
    • Orientation.UpsideDown
  • nearest_orientation()
  • reorient()
  • reverse_orientation()
  • rotated_index()
• Working with Async code
  • Making tasks
    • async_as_background()
    • async_with_timeout()
  • Managing futures
    • wait_for_all_futures()
    • wait_for_first_future()
    • cancel_futures_and_wait()
  • Future callbacks
    • reporter()
    • silent_reporter()
    • transfer_result()
    • fut_has_callback()
  • Custom Future classes
    • ResettableFuture
    • ChildOfFuture
  • Objects for doing async work
    • ATicker
    • tick()
    • TaskHolder
      • TaskHolder.add()
      • TaskHolder.add_task()
      • TaskHolder.finish()
    • ResultStreamer
      • ResultStreamer.Result
      • ResultStreamer.add_generator()
      • ResultStreamer.add_coroutine()
      • ResultStreamer.add_value()
      • ResultStreamer.add_task()
      • ResultStreamer.no_more_work()
      • ResultStreamer.finish()
• Other things to make your life easier
  • add_error()
  • a_temp_file()
  • nested_dict_retrieve()
  • memoized_property