[Eric] Can't find definition using Rope

[Detlev Offenbach]

On Samstag, 25. April 2009, OldGrantonian wrote:
> >>  In your example, rope should first infer the object main_widget holds
> >>  and then its helpMenu attribute and finally its insertItem.  When rope
> >>  cannot find the location of insertItem, it has failed to follow this
> >>  chain (maybe some dynamic or uncommon case).
>
> I've found out that for the line:
>
> main_widget.helpMenu.insertItem("Hello world",self.hi,0,666)
>
> the helpMenu attribute is defined in main_form.ui
>
> Should I convert this to a .py file using pyuic4 and then import it to my
> project?

That is the approach used developing eric4 and it can be done from within 
eric4 (Project Viewer -> Forms tab, context menu Compile Form). Once compiled 
the Generate Dialog Code of the same context menu may be used to generate 
some template code for the dialog class.

Detlev
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