- structural changes in Preferences from David Robertson

AppGUI/preferences/PreferencesSectionUI.py

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+from typing import Dict
+from PyQt5 import QtWidgets, QtCore
+
+from AppGUI.ColumnarFlowLayout import ColumnarFlowLayout
+from AppGUI.preferences.OptionUI import OptionUI
+from AppGUI.preferences.OptionsGroupUI import OptionsGroupUI
+
+
+class PreferencesSectionUI(QtWidgets.QWidget):
+
+    def __init__(self, **kwargs):
+        super().__init__(**kwargs)
+        self.layout = ColumnarFlowLayout()  # QtWidgets.QHBoxLayout()
+        self.setLayout(self.layout)
+
+        self.groups = self.build_groups()
+        for group in self.groups:
+            group.setMinimumWidth(250)
+            self.layout.addWidget(group)
+
+    def build_groups(self) -> [OptionsGroupUI]:
+        return []
+
+    def option_dict(self) -> Dict[str, OptionUI]:
+        result = {}
+        for group in self.groups:
+            groupoptions = group.option_dict()
+            result.update(groupoptions)
+        return result
+
+    def build_tab(self):
+        scroll_area = QtWidgets.QScrollArea()
+        scroll_area.setWidget(self)
+        scroll_area.setWidgetResizable(True)
+        return scroll_area
+
+    def get_tab_id(self) -> str:
+        raise NotImplementedError
+
+    def get_tab_label(self) -> str:
+        raise NotImplementedError