[PyQt] Design plugins in Windows

[Kyle Altendorf]

On 2016-03-28 18:49, Kyle Altendorf wrote:
> On 2016-03-28 18:12, Phil Thompson wrote:
>> On 28 Mar 2016, at 10:47 pm, Kyle Altendorf <sda at fstab.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>> While my Designer widgets work quite nicely in Linux (thank you) I am 
>>> unable to get them working in Windows.  I have tried many 
>>> permutations of / and \ and quotes or not in PYQTDESIGNERPATH.  I 
>>> also located my files in one of the default path locations 
>>> (C:\Users\IEUser\.designer\plugins\python).  In no case do they show 
>>> up within Designer (pyqt5.dll is listed as a plugin).  Any 
>>> recommendations on how to debug/resolve this before I attempt to 
>>> rebuild pyqt5.dll with debug statements written to a file?  My 
>>> widgets/plugins are available on GitHub [1].
>>> 
>>> Thank you for any suggestions you care to share.
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> -kyle
>>> 
>>> 
>>> [1] 
>>> https://github.com/altendky/st/tree/fda167f20081ba0f24293d71535b68b2e6954bb0/epyq/widgets
>> 
>> Does the standard example work for you?
>> 
>> Phil
> 
> No, it does not seem to work either via the examples app or from the
> command line.  In fact, unless I set PYTHONPATH to something else,
> Designer won't even open (so example app doesn't open Designer at
> all).  I looked for the widgets in the list and also for entries under
> the listing of pyqt5.dll in the dialog under help and neither
> 
> 
>   C:\Users\IEUser>set
> PYQTDESIGNERPATH=c:\python34\lib\site-packages\PyQt5\examples\designer\plugins\python
> 
>   C:\Users\IEUser>set
> PYTHONPATH=c:\python34\lib\site-packages\PyQt5\examples\designer\plugins\widgets
> 
>   C:\Users\IEUser>designer
> <no output nor designer window>
> 
>   C:\Users\IEUser>set
> PYTHONPATH=c:\python34\lib\site-packages\PyQt5\examples\designer\plugins\widget
> 
>   C:\Users\IEUser>designer
> 
>   C:\Users\IEUser>
> <no output but designer window comes up>
> 
> 
> I'm bringing up a fresh virtual machine (modern.ie Vagrant/Win10/Edge
> x64) and will install Python 3.4.4 and PyQt 5.5.1 (both x32).  I will
> let you know the results there.

The fresh virtual failed in the same way.  Any other particular 
combination you think it would be helpful to try?

Thanks,
-kyle