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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 15.01.2016 18:00, Detlev Offenbach
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">Why not use an IDE made for Python and Qt development? The eric IDE could be the tool of choice (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://eric-ide.python-projects.org">http://eric-ide.python-projects.org</a>).</p>
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Of course I know Eric, at least from the newsgroup announcements and
the screenshots. Actually I'm using a different IDE which is also
implemented in Qt.<br>
Nowadays, I would not recommend programming Python without a decent
IDE as it boost productivity, especially when it allows to code at
the debugger breakpoint.<br>
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Probably Eric is the IDE with the best Qt support, as it has some
assistants to implement message boxes etc..<br>
But that's still not a GUI builder for the casual programmer (or
"domain expert" as someone on c.l.p. names such people).<br>
Or am I mistaken here? Does it have more support?<br>
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My experience with Qt Creator is very limited. I did use it some
years ago to get into Qt when I wanted to write some software for my
N900 phone. The software is still alive on a Jolla phone today, but
I have not been using Qt Creator for years.<br>
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I think it's still the same procedure nowadays: <br>
a) design the GUI<br>
b) save it to .ui<br>
c) compile it to .py<br>
d) write another .py file which imports the other .py file, defines
the app, calls setupUI, ...<br>
<br>
Well, now imagine a colleague who asks you "Can I use Python to
implement a GUI program for doing some measurements?"<br>
Just demo the above procedure. At a) and b) everything is fine. At
c) you will get some strange looks. At d) your colleague will ask
you whether there is a different tool.<br>
For a start, probably steps b to d could be handled by an IDE even
without too tight integration into Qt Creator. Maybe the Python code
created from the ui file could look a bit nicer than I remember it.<br>
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Regards,<br>
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Dietmar<br>
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