[PyKDE] Problem having .ui files compiled from eric3 (was Re: Compiling .ui files from eric3)

[flupke]

Detlev Offenbach wrote:

>Am Montag, 7. März 2005 23:29 schrieb flupke:
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>>Detlev Offenbach wrote:
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>>>Am Montag, 7. März 2005 19:43 schrieb flupke:
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>>>>Hi,
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>>>>First of all thanks a lot for your work, I just installed eric3 this
>>>>afternoon and really like the look & feel.
>>>>
>>>>I have a rather annoying problem : I can't find how to compile .ui files
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>>>>from the IDE and have to do it manually from the command line with pyuic.
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>>>>Is there a button somewhere that I missed ? Should it compile
>>>>automagically when launching the main script and I miss some external
>>>>utilities on my system ?
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>>>>The versions I use :
>>>>Python 2.3.5
>>>>Qt 3.3.3
>>>>PyQt 3.13
>>>>QScintilla 1.3
>>>>Eric 3.6.2
>>>>Bicycle Repair Man CVS-20041120
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>>>>On a debian testing system (installed eric3 and required libraries from
>>>>apt ; also tried eric-snapshot-20050227 with no more luck).
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>>>>Thanks,
>>>>flupke
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>>>When you are talking about compiling a .ui file you are probably talking
>>>about a little project involving several files. Once you create an eric3
>>>project for your setup, the requested functionality is available in the
>>>project forms browser. Even the automatic compilation feature is built
>>>into it. But all this is related to a project.
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>>>Detlev
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>>Yes exactly, wrong title for my problem I guess ; I will try to be more
>>clear ;)
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>>So I made a small project, added two files to it : "main.py" creating a
>>"Form" instance and "form.py" defining the "Form" class, subclassed from
>>a "Formbase" class that I would like to be generated from a .ui file.
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>>I then added "formbase.ui" file to the project, defining a form named
>>"Formbase".
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>>Now I see the "formbase.ui" file in the form browser, but I don't see no
>>compile option for it in the interface or its context menu, and when I
>>launch the script hitting F2, the .ui file is not compiled to produce a
>>.py file.
>>If I generate the .py "by hand" using pyuic, it works.
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>>Hope it makes sense, thanks for your help !
>>flupke
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>This happens, if the environment variable QTDIR is not defined. As an 
>alternative you can configure the path to your Qt installation in the 
>configuration dialog Qt page. After a restart of the IDE, Qt related menu 
>entries (like compile form) should be available in the context menus of the 
>various project browser tabs.
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>Detlev
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Yes that was my problem, thanks a lot ! (/usr/lib/qt3 was the Qt 
installation directory on my debian/testing system)

flupke