[PyKDE] Custom interface

[Greg Fortune]

Here's a 7 minute mockup using Designer.  Making it look pretty is left as an 
exercise to you :O)  Remember, if you need pixel perfect (ie, inflexible) 
layout, that is very possible.  You just lose the ability for the app to 
resize nicely.  The .ui file can be opened in Qt Designer.

All the layout was done using QVBoxLayout and QGridLayout instead of trying to 
pack it into a table or trying to draw the widgets myself on a QCanvas.  For 
custom borders, you might have to derive a QFrame and implement the border 
drawing using that for the "choice" containers.  FYI, QCanvas should probably 
be considered a last resort and only used in a couple places where the 
layouts and the standard widgets don't fit your needs.  Drawing your own 
widgets will be a *lot* more work :)

If you work up something a little closer to what you want, we can probably 
offer advice for tweaking it.

Greg Fortune
Fortune Solutions

On Friday 09 January 2004 08:22 am, Eron Lloyd wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm working on a major PyQt project implementing a complete open-source
> election system. One of my major challenges is developing a
> fully-functional on-screen ballot display widget, to present information to
> the voter and provide input methods to cast votes. I want the interface to
> be able to mirror a high-quality paper-ballot as much as possible, and
> therefore will probably have do extensive custom-widget work. My biggest
> concern is in the area of ballot layout; ballots usually take on a
> table-based interface, but I have a much different set of needs than QTable
> seems to provide. Attached is a mock-up of a sample ballot done in
> OpenOffice.org using their fantastic table support; this is more along the
> lines of my requirements, including cell/row spanning, custom borders,
> background/foreground/border colors, spacing/padding, and input areas. To
> my knowledge nothing similar to this exists, and I know KWord has been
> having major difficulties producing a good table class for documents. Any
> suggestions? I know Qt can probably do it but I'm not expert at all. I see
> some potential in QCanvas...
>
> Thanks!
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