# Sketch - A Python-based interactive drawing program
# Copyright (C) 1998 by Bernhard Herzog
#
# This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
# modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
# License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
# version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
#
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# dashes for sketch

import os

from Sketch import config, _
from Sketch.warn import warn_tb, USER
from Sketch.loadres import read_resource_file

std_dashes = None

def StandardDashes():
    global std_dashes
    if std_dashes is None:
	filename = os.path.join(config.std_res_dir, config.preferences.dashes)
	try:
	    std_dashes = []
	    read_resource_file(filename, '##Sketch Dashes 0',
			       _("%s is not dashes file"),
			       {'dashes': std_dashes.append})
	except:
	    warn_tb(USER, _("Error trying to read dashes from %s\n"
                            "Using builtin defaults"), filename)
	    std_dashes = [(), (5, 5)]
    return std_dashes
