various bugfixes, blankFrame method for components

don't crash from broken project files or nonexistent videopaths, and shareable common paths in core.py

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/components/__base__.py b/components/__base__.py
index bc6644b..88f22d4 100644
--- a/components/__base__.py
+++ b/components/__base__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 from PyQt4 import QtGui, QtCore
+from PIL import Image
 
 
 class Component(QtCore.QObject):
@@ -45,6 +46,9 @@ class Component(QtCore.QObject):
         for var, value in kwargs.items():
             exec('self.%s = value' % var)
 
+    def blankFrame(self, width, height):
+        return Image.new("RGBA", (width, height), (0, 0, 0, 0))
+
     def pickColor(self):
         dialog = QtGui.QColorDialog()
         dialog.setOption(QtGui.QColorDialog.ShowAlphaChannel, True)