[Eric] Eric4 "Generate Dialog Code..." Suggestion

[Detlev Offenbach]

The extension will be part of eric 4.5.10 and 5.4.0.

Detlev

On Friday 15 March 2013, 12:46:26 Patrick Moran wrote:
> When I select Generate Dialog Code... (right click on myForm.ui file in the
> Forms Tab of the IDE)I can generate Python code without a problem for a UI
> that has QDockWidget class. When I go to regenerate the file I get an error
> message saying that there are no classes in my myForm.py module. After
> further investigation I see that the list of class types that is scanned in
> the file
> 
> C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\eric4\Project\CreateDialogCodeDialog.py
> 
> is determined by the list on line 38.
> 
> DialogClasses = set(["QDialog", "QWidget", "QMainWindow", "QWizard"])
> 
> If I change that line to this:
> 
> DialogClasses = set(["QDialog", "QWidget", "QMainWindow", "QWizard",
> "QDockWidget"])
> 
> Then the Generate Dialog Code... command properly finds my QDockWidget type.
> 
> I'm curious why the list only contains those classes since the New Form
> dialog box in Qt Designer shows several kinds:
> QDockWidget
> QFrame
> QGroupBox
> QScrollArea
> QMdiArea
> QTabWidget
> QToolBox
> QStackedWidget
> QWidget
> QWizard
> QWizardPage
> QMainWindow
> QDialog
> 
> I assume each of the widgets in the list can be built inside its own UI
> file: that's how I use them. I use separate UI files for each component in
> the application, test them individually, then load them into the app at run
> time. So generating code on a single widget is really helpful.
> 
> Is it possible to roll the change that includes all the class types into the
> next release?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Pat Moran
> 
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