[Eric] ButtonGroup in QT Designer 4.7.1

[Detlev Offenbach]

On Donnerstag, 27. Januar 2011, Justin Frost wrote:
> Using the new install package of PyQT 4.8.3-1 with Python 2.6.1, 2.7.1 and
> 3.1 I get a error dialog with a title of "uic error" and the message is
> "There was an error loading the form (path to form).  'str' object has no
> attribute 'string.'  when I try to use the "Generate Dialog Code..."
> option.  By deleting widgets from my form I was able isolate the error to
> the way QT Designer 4.7.1 creates ButtonGroups.  If there is any
> ButtonGroup in the form, neither eric4 nor eric5 appear to be able to
> parse the .ui file.  Has anybody else run into this program and got around
> it? 
> 

This is an issue with PyQt4. It happens in uiparser.py (line 231). I hope, 
Phil is able to fix it. Meanwhile you should not use QButtonGroup in the .ui 
file. You may do this in the Python file implementing the UI functions.

Regards,
Detlev
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