'NoneType' object has no attribute error, when using Kivy Screens

[chelovek]

I'm working on a multi-screen Kivy app. This is a simplified version, but the basic functionality is that a user should be able to drag files to three labels on the main screen.

I declare self.drops=[] in the App class, and in the label ("DropFile") class I have: 

        app = App.get_running_app()
        app.drops.append(self.on_dropfile)

I was able to get the functionality to work without screens, but when I tried adding a screen manager, I started getting this error: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'drops'.

Any ideas what's going wrong with "drops"? I've added comments to the code with the "PROBLEM AREAS". If you comment out drops, the app will open (albeit without drag/drop functionality).

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

from kivy.app import App
from kivy.uix.button import Button
from kivy.core.window import Window
from kivy.uix.boxlayout import BoxLayout
from kivy.uix.label import Label
from kivy.uix.listview import ListView
from kivy.uix.gridlayout import GridLayout
from kivy.properties import ObjectProperty
from kivy.uix.screenmanager import ScreenManager, Screen
from kivy.lang import Builder

from kivy.properties import ListProperty

Builder.load_string("""
<DropFile>:

<RunButton>:
color: .5,.6,.2,.7


<MenuScreen>:
    BoxLayout:
        orientation: 'vertical'
        DropFile:
            text: "Drag file1 here."
        DropFile:
            text: "Drag file2 here."
        DropFile:
            text: "Drag file3 here."
        RunButton:
            text: "Run"
            on_press: root.manager.current = "settings"
            


        
<SettingsScreen>:
    BoxLayout:
        Button:
            text: 'My settings button'
        Button:
            text: 'Back to menu'
            on_press: root.manager.current = 'menu'
""")

# Declare both screens
class MenuScreen(Screen):
    pass

class Box(BoxLayout):
    pass

class RunButton(Button):
    pass

class Helper:
    pass

class DropFile(Label):
    def __init__(self, **kwargs):
        super(DropFile, self).__init__(**kwargs)
        Window.bind(mouse_pos=lambda w, p: setattr(Helper, 'mpos', p))

#PROBLEM AREA 1: Something is malfunctioning with "drops" here
        app = App.get_running_app()
        app.drops.append(self.on_dropfile)

    def on_dropfile(self, widget, filename):
        # a function catching a dropped file
        # if it's dropped in the widget's area
        if self.collide_point(*Window.mouse_pos):
            self.text= filename.decode('utf-8')
            print(self.text)
class SettingsScreen(Screen):
    pass

# Create the screen manager
sm = ScreenManager()
sm.add_widget(MenuScreen(name='menu'))
sm.add_widget(SettingsScreen(name='settings'))

class TestApp(App):
    
    def build(self):
#PROBLEM AREA 2: Something is malfunctioning with "drops" here. 
        self.drops=[]
        Window.bind(on_dropfile=self.handledrops)
        return sm
    def handledrops(self, *args):
        
        for i in self.drops:
            i(*args)

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

[Yoriz]

on_dropfile does not return anything so by default it returns None.

[chelovek]

on_dropfile does not return anything so by default it returns None.

https://github.com/kivy/kivy/blob/master...ropfile.py

Thanks. One thing I'm confused about is, the functions seem to work in this code above, but when I modify things a bit (adding screens, but leaving the core drop functions intact) it stops working.

[chelovek]

I spoke too soon. I needed to set up the Screen Manager within the build method.

Thanks for your help!