Why is my Kivy Actionbar gone?

Question

Good evening,

I'm trying to combine kivy's actionbar with a screenmanager. I've gotten to the point where I can switch through screens, but am not able to get my actionbar to show. I've followed alot of examples, but none that can help me with my problem. I'm fairly new to kivy so I haven't been working with it for very long. I was kind of wondering if someone would be able to point out where my problem lies, because I'm trying to build my very own GUI with an action bar that lets me switch through screens. here is my main.py:

#!/usr/bin/env python3
from kivy.app import App
from kivy.uix.screenmanager import ScreenManager,Screen
from kivy.properties import ObjectProperty
from kivy.uix.boxlayout import BoxLayout

class Menu(BoxLayout):
    pass
class ScreenThermo(Screen):
    pass
class ScreenLight(Screen):
    pass
class ScreenEnergy(Screen):
    pass
class ScreenWeather(Screen):
    pass

class Manager(ScreenManager):
    screen_thermo = ObjectProperty(None)
    screen_light = ObjectProperty(None)
    screen_energy = ObjectProperty(None)
    screen_weather = ObjectProperty(None)

class MenuApp(App):
    def thermostaat(self):
        print("Thermostaat")
    def verlichting(self):
        print("Verlichting")
    def energie(self):
        print("Energie")
    def weer(self):
        print("Het Weer")
    def build(self):
        return Manager()


if __name__ == '__main__':
    MenuApp().run()

And here's my menu.kv file:

#:kivy 1.0.9
<Menu>:
    orientation: "vertical"

    ActionBar:
        ActionView:
            ActionPrevious:
            ActionButton:
                text: "Thermostaat"

                on_release: app.thermostaat()
            ActionButton:
                text: "Verlichting"
                #I want my screens to switch when clicking on this actionbar button
                on_press: root.manager.current= 'light'
                on_release: app.verlichting()
            ActionButton:
                text: "Energieverbruik"
                on_release: app.energie()
            ActionButton:
                text: "Het Weer"
                on_release: app.weer()

    Button:
        text: "Nothing"
        background_color: 1, 1, 1, 0.6
        background_normal: ""

<ScreenThermo>:
    Button:
        text: "stuff1"
        #this is a test to see if i can switch through screens
        on_press: root.manager.current= 'light'
<ScreenLight>:
    Button:
        text: "stuff2"
<ScreenEnergy>:
    Button:
        text: "stuff3"
<ScreenWeather>:
    Button:
        text: "stuff4"

<Manager>:
    id: screen_manager
    screen_thermo: screen_thermo
    screen_light: screen_light
    screen_energy: screen_energy
    screen_weather: screen_weather

    ScreenThermo:
        id: screen_thermo
        name: 'thermo'
        manager: screen_manager
    ScreenLight:
        id: screen_light
        name: 'light'
        manager: screen_manager
    ScreenEnergy:
        id: screen_energy
        name: 'energy'
        manager: screen_manager
    ScreenWeather:
        id: screen_weather
        name: 'weather'
        manager: screen_manager

As you can see, I'm trying to have my screens switch on a actionbar button click, but somehow when i launch it, my actionbar is gone. If anyone could help me with this issue, that would be amazing.

Answer 1

you never add the menu to your app also you need to add a manager property in your menu. Try something like this:

in the .py:

...
class Menu(BoxLayout):
    manager = ObjectProperty(None)

...
class MenuApp(App):
    def thermostaat(self):
        print("Thermostaat")
    def verlichting(self):
        print("Verlichting")
    def energie(self):
        print("Energie")
    def weer(self):
        print("Het Weer")

...

Notice that I have removed the build method

In your kv add this block of code at the end:

...
BoxLayout: #use a box layout or whatever you want
    orientation: 'vertical'
    Menu:
        size_hint_y: .1
        manager: manager
    Manager:
        size_hint_y: .9
        id: manager